Cameron University’s Visiting Writer’s Series kicks off on Friday, August 30, with author Wallace Moore. He will read samples of his work starting at 7 p.m. in Room 2005 of Nance-Boyer Hall.
Moore, a retired master sergeant in the U.S. Army, is the co-founder of Barkingwater Productions, an organization dedicated to the preservation of western history with special emphasis on the contributions made by African Americans.
He is the author of three books, “Ebony Shadows of the Trail,” “Ebony Horse Soldiers”’ and “Hoof Prints on the Canadian,” and is also a cowboy poet. Moore’s poems have been published in books including Art T. Burton’s “Black Star, Silver Gun” and “The Life of Cherokee Bill” as well as in magazines such as Cowboys and Indians and Oklahoma Today.
The charter president of the Lawton/Fort Sill chapter of the 9th & 10th (Horse) Cavalry Association, Moore belongs to the Single Action Shooting Society and the U.S. Cavalry Association.
A popular storyteller and re-enactor, Moore has served as a living history interpreter at the Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Museum for the past 30 years. He has also appeared at Lawton’s Museum of the Great Plains, the Three Rivers Museum in Muskogee, the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Duncan’s Chisholm Trail Heritage Center and numerous other attractions, including Disney World.
Moore has appeared on stage with Michael Martin Murphy and was featured on Lidia Bastianich’s “Cooking Across America” PBS special.
The Visiting Writer’s Series is co-sponsored by Cameron University Lectures and Concerts, the Department of Communication, English and Foreign Languages, and Sigma Tau Delta.
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