Local author to host a book signing

Renowned cowboy poet, award winning Nebraska columnist and freelance writer/entertainer, Tim Nolting, will host a book signing at the Kimball Public Library on Thursday, March 16.

His book, "101 Yesterdays", was published in January and was debuted at the Prairie Art Studio in Gering last month.

This is Nolting's first time being published in book form, though he said that he has been writing poems and stories since childhood.

"I have always enjoyed writing," he said. "I have always written a lot of short stories and essays. Probably the poetry is what got me the most recognition, but really, I want to tell stories."

It took Nolting seven years to compile the selections for his first book, a collection of his favorite, and award winning, personal and historical columns ranging in subject from heroes and villains, to horses, cattle, war, and more from a total of 387 articles.

"I went through and picked out the ones I had won Nebraska Press awards, mostly on the personal columns," he said. "I got second place on a historical column about Sitting Bull and one of the judges said, 'This is the way history should be written.'"

Volume two will be available, for the first time, at the upcoming book signing in Kimball.