From the archives: Skeeter Dan, King of the Big Windies

Posted by John Small | Sep 8, 2021 | Small Talk

(Editor’s Note: The following is an abbreviated version of a tale that originally appeared in Mr. Small’s 2007 collection of short western stories, Days Gone By: Legends and Tales of Sipokni West, which features stories inspired by the old west attraction owned and operated by Johnny Shackleford and located in Reagan. It is being reprinted […]

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John Small

John A. Small is the Managing Editor and (with Publishers Tom and Mary Lokey) co-founder of the Johnston County Sentinel, a weekly newspaper headquartered in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. He came to Tishomingo (his mother’s birthplace) in 1991 and spent the next three and a half years as reporter and columnist for the Johnston County Capital-Democrat. Following a two-year stint as News Editor at the Durant Daily Democrat, he returned to the C-D as News Editor in 1997 and remained there until January of 2018, when the Sentinel was founded. To date his work as a journalist has earned him more than 220 awards from the Oklahoma Press Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press, the National Newspaper Association, and the Oklahoma Education Association.

From the archives: Skeeter Dan, King of the Big Windies

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