Jim Johnston, author of the University of Nebraska Press title, The Long Road of War: A Marine’s Story of Pacific Combat, died earlier this month. He was 86 years old.

Johnston lived most of his life in southwest Nebraska community of Wauneta, in Chase County, where he established Johnston Real Estate in 1963. His wife and three sons still live there.

In 1998, the University of Nebraska Press published The Long Road of War, in which Johnston told his story of service during WWII, which he served mostly in the Pacific. The book was well received in military circles and was a selection of the History Book Club.

Memorial services were held last week, in Wauneta.

In other news, The High Country News has published a review of W. D. Wetherell’s Yellowstone Autumn. The reviewer calls Yellowstone Autumn “an engaging blend of history lesson, fly-fishing essay and philosophical treatise.” For the full review, click here.