Wilbur Smith detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. As of 2014 his 35 published novels had sold more than 120 million copies, 24 million of them in Italy. Smith was born in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia). His father was a metal worker who opened a sheet metal factory and then bought a cattle ranch. "My father was a tough man", said Smith. "He was used to working with his hands and had massively developed arms from cutting metal. He was a boxer, a hunter, very
Wilbur Foss 1989, he was inducted into the South Dakota Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the South Dakota Country Music Hall of Fame (inducted 2011), South Dakota Baseball Hall of Fame (inducted 1984), the South Dakota Fiddlers Hall of Fame (inducted 1984) and the Midwest Fiddler Hall of Fame (inducted 1987). He was awarded the South Dakota Press Association Distinguished Service Award in 1987. In 1946, he married Elizabeth Busch. They lived in Scotland, South Dakota, where he died on November 18, 2015. Wilbur Foss Wilbur Peder Foss (June 15, 1921 – November 18, 2015) was an American