Stew Magnuson’ s The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns was nominated this week by the Writers’ League of Texas as its nonfiction Book of the Year.
It’s the third award nomination for the work after being named a finalist for the Great Plains Distinguished Book of the Year. It won a bronze medal in ForeWord Magazine’s regional nonfiction category.
The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder is published by Texas Tech University Press. It traces the shared history the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and the border town communities of Sheridan County, Nebraska.
The winner of the award will win $1,000 and be invited to speak at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, Texas, on Oct. 31.