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Rider South, son of Marshal South, is making a very rare appearance in southern California from October 21-30 at several venues including San Diego, El Cajon, Ramona, Julian, Escondido, Oceanside, Borrego Springs, and Palm Desert to talk about his father as a writer and an artist and to celebrate the publication of two of Marshal South’s western novels originally published 70 years ago. The two novels have the Anza-Borrego desert area as the setting for the stories, incorporating local legendry and desert places that Marshal South new well.
After an introduction about the South family and their experiment in primitive living, Rider will answer questions about this very unusual family and its 17-year sojourn on waterless Ghost Mountain. For an event schedule, scroll down or go to:
http://www.sunbeltbook.com/calendar/calendar.
Of Special interest are the events on Saturday, October 26, in Borrego Springs. It is the 48th Annual Borrego Days Desert Festival. Rider South will be in the 10 a.m. parade riding in a 1927 Model T – the same type of vehicle that his father regularly drove between Ghost Mountain and Julian when the family lived on Ghost Mountain. The vehicle will be part of the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park contingent in the parade. Also there will be a special event that evening at the Borrego Springs Performing Art Center at 7:30 p.m. The cost of admission includes a copy of the new westerns plus a bonus book and a special gift. Following a short presentation on the background of the South family and Marshal South as an artist and writer, Rider South will entertain questions submitted by the audience and discuss anything anyone ever wanted to know about the South family. A special mystery guest will also be there to answer questions. A reception will follow the presentation. Contact the Anza-Borrego Foundation for tickets as space is limited: www.theabf.org.
The enigmatic Marshal South of California’s Anza-Borrego desert region remains a controversial character to this day. Images he described in Desert Magazine of his family’s experiment in primitive living left a lasting impression that obscured the memory of this man as an acclaimed western novelist. With the publication of Marshal South Rides Again, a new generation is being introduced to these fast-paced, non-stop action cliffhangers that are set in the land he knew best – the desert that surrounded his Ghost Mountain home.
Marshal South and Rider South (left)
The South family of Anza-Borrego’s Ghost Mountain in 1946.
PRAISE FOR MARSHAL SOUTH RIDES AGAIN: HIS ANZA-BORREGO NOVELS:
It is an easy read, a fun read, and a book you will not be able to put down. You will feel the desert heat, the suspense, and excitement in two novels that were overlooked for decades, until now. Buy and read this great treasure of western literature.
—Don Bendell, author of number one best-selling western Strongheart
with over 3,000,000 copies of his 26 books in print.
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Marshal South was as compelling a man as his writings, and his books were every bit as good as the best works of Zane Grey. Timeless prose and storylines, glowing descriptions and characters—readers would be hard-pressed to find a Western on the bookshelves today that are any better.
—Steven Law, best-selling author of Yuma Gold
and president of ReadWest Foundation
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Marshal South is a terrific storyteller; his books are filled with tense situations, intriguing mystery and prose that’ll keep you turning the pages. Western action not to be missed.
—Steve Myall, Western Fiction Review
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Major kudos to Sunbelt for giving Marshal South his due place as a major American literary voice, shoulder to shoulder with American Western greats such as Zane Grey and Louis l'Amour, and sharing another piece of the old American Desert West … with a whole new generation of readers.
—Ruth Nolan, Professor of creative writing, College of the Desert,
and editor of No Place for a Puritan: the literature of California's deserts
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Marshal South knows how to rivet your attention right from the first page with foreboding, exciting scenes. That skill evidences itself nowhere better than in these two novels….Robbery Range in particular gives us the very finest work of this unjustly forgotten author whose own life makes a fine tale in itself.
—Fred Woodworth, Mystery & Adventure Series Review
OCTOBER EVENTS WITH RIDER SOUTH AND DIANA LINDSAY:
Monday, October 21 San Diego Natural History Museum , 6:30 p.m. – 1 hour presentation
Canyoneers , Mission Trail Guides, Museum volunteers and staff
Parker/French Classroom, First floor
Tuesday, October 22 Rotary Club of El Cajon, 12 noon – 30 minute presentation
Ronald Reagan Community Center
195 E. Douglas Ave, El Cajon
Public invited but must pay for lunch
Julian Library, 6 pm – 1 hour presentation
Julian, CA (Hwy 78)
Open to the public
Wed, October 23 Oceanside Public Library, 5:30 pm – 1 hour presentation
330 N Coast Highway
Oceanside CA 92054
Open to the public
Thurs, October 24 Rancho San Diego Library, 6:30 p.m. – 1 hour presentation
San Diego County Library
Rancho San Diego Branch
11555 Via Rancho San Diego El Cajon, CA 92019
619-660-5370 – library general number
Open to the public
Friday, October 25 Point Loma Rotary, 12:10 p.m. – 30 minute presentation
San Diego Yacht Club
1011 Anchorage Lane, San Diego, CA 92106
Public invited but must pay for lunch – call Sunbelt Publications to reserve space
Sat, October 26 Borrego Days Desert Festival – 10 a.m. parade begins
Rider will ride in 1927 Model T driven
ABF BS Performing Arts Center, 7:30 p.m. – 1 hour presentation
Anza-Borrego Foundation
587 Palm Canyon Drive, Suite 111
PO Box 2001, Borrego Springs, CA 92004
$35 public/$30 ABF members – includes books and a special gift
Sun, October 27 ABF field trip to Ghost Mountain, 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Revisiting Ghost Mountain with Rider South
SOLD OUT!
Canebrake Community Center, 2:30 pm – 1 hour presentation
Canebrake Community Hwy S-2
Mon, October 28 Escondido Library, 6 p.m. – 1 hour presentation
239 S Kalmia St, Escondido, CA 92025
Open to the public
Tues, October 29 Ramona Club Rotary, 12 noon – 30 minute presentation
Meet at the Ramona Valley Grill
344 Main Street in Ramona
public can attend but must pay for lunch
Palm Desert Library, Community Room, 6:30pm – 1 hour presentation
73-300 Fred Waring Drive, Palm Desert, CA 92660
Library: 760-346-6552
(sponsored by College of the Desert)
open to the public
Wed, October 30 San Diego History Museum, 6-7 p.m. – 1 hour presentation
1649 El Prado #3 San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 232-6203
Open to the public
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