User:Bill Markley

Bill Markley, Author. Bill Markley is a member of Western Writers of America (WWA). He is a staff writer for WWA’s Roundup Magazine. He has written three nonfiction books, Dakota Epic, Experiences of a Reenactor During the Filming of Dances With Wolves, Up the Missouri River with Lewis and Clark, and American Pilgrim. Markley also writes for True West, Wild West, and South Dakota magazines. He earned a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech, has worked in Antarctica, and for forty years worked for the South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Raised on a farm near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, Markley has always loved history. He reenacts Civil War infantry and frontier cavalry and has participated in movies, including "Dances With Wolves," "Far and Away," and "Gettysburg." Markley and his wife Liz live and work in Pierre, South Dakota, where they have raised two children, now grown. Markley's first historical novel is Deadwood Dead Men.