Requiem for a Cowboy Veteran
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“This past September at the age of 98, Ben Steele died in Billings, Montana. The length of his life was remarkable. The horrors he surmounted make it still more so. Steele’s life story offers profound lessons of tenacity, endurance, the power of creativity, and the value of dialogue and diversity that all of America would do well to heed.”
Requiem for a Cowboy Veteran is an elegy to Ben Steele, the extraordinary artist, WWII veteran, and former prisoner of war in the Pacific whose experiences as a POW during WWII informed those of Michael Gannon, the father in Shining Sea.
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