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Remembering D.L. Birchfield

by | Nov 5, 2012 | True Westerners

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The world of Western literature lost a treasured voice in the early morning hours of September 7, when D.L. Birchfield, Choctaw satirist and professor of Native American Studies, slipped from this life. The author of the Spur Award-winning Field of Honor died from an apparent heart attack. Describing him as a “champion of, and mentor to, numerous students,” the University of Lethbridge, where Birchfield taught, remarked that he will be greatly missed. Birchfield’s most recent book, How


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