Jim Marion Etter
is a retired reporter for The Daily Oklahoman
newspaper and a freelance writer, mostly about rural people and places.
He grew up in the small eastern Oklahoma town of Oktaha, and his first
newspaper job was with The Muskogee Daily Phoenix & Times-Democrat.
While most of his writing career has been in Oklahoma, he also has been a
newsman in Laredo, Texas, served as a military journalist and translator in
Latin America and for a while lived in and wrote about New Mexico.
His other books include “The Grains of Time” and “Oktaha, A Track in the
Sand.” He’s among the authors in anthologies including “New Trails,” “Daughters
of the Land,” “Western Horse Trails” and “The Salt of the Earth.”
He's written for magazines including American Cowboy, Western Horseman,
Persimmon Hill, Desert Exposure, True West, Frontier Times, Cowboy, Western
Digest, Route 66, Oklahoma Today, Country Discoveries and ByLine; and
other newspapers such as The St. Petersburg Times in Florida and the
Spanish language El Nacional in Oklahoma. His news stories and features
in The Oklahoman number in the hundreds.
He belongs to organizations such as Oklahoma Writers' Federation and Western
Writers of America, and he's won a few awards here and there.
