Conger Beasley Jr

Conger Beasley Jr. has won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in Nonfiction for We Are a People of This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee and winner of the Thorpe Menn Award for literary excellence for Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual. His most recent book is Messiah: The Life and Times of Francis Schlatter. He is the author of 19 books, including the highly acclaimed Hidalgo's Beard and The Ptomaine Kid , both regarded to be among the...See more

Conger Beasley Jr. has won the Western Writers of America Spur Award in Nonfiction for We Are a People of This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee and winner of the Thorpe Menn Award for literary excellence for Sundancers and River Demons: Essays on Landscape and Ritual. His most recent book is Messiah: The Life and Times of Francis Schlatter. He is the author of 19 books, including the highly acclaimed Hidalgo's Beard and The Ptomaine Kid , both regarded to be among the best innovative novels of their time. See less