On Sunday, March 24, 2002 at 11:55:43 PM UTC-6, Steve Grimm wrote:   
   > Respected western historian and author Glenn Shirley died on February   
   > 27, 2002.  He was my favorite western history author.  If it happened in   
   > Oklahoma and was related to the old west Glenn Shirley wrote about it.   
   > His books always present this information in an unbiased manner and he   
   > was a vigilante researcher.   
   >   
   > I met Glenn Shirley once at a NOLA meeting and though I was a bumbling   
   > idiot, Shirley was kind, listened and answered my questions.  Recently   
   > he was given an award for lifetime achievement (I think that was the   
   > premise) by WOLA and this award will now be called the Glenn Shirley   
   > award.   
      
   Good writer, but amateur researcher at best. His only research method appeared   
   to be from newspapers of the time period and those are as bias as they come,   
   and he didn't do a very good job of using the newspapers either.   
   In his book "West of Hell's Fringe" p. 28 he quotes a fictitious Jan. 3, 1943   
   Daily Oklahoman Newspaper article. The Daily Oklahoman apologized for printing   
   the article roughly 3 weeks after it was published calling it "pure fiction".   
      
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