Rex Alan Smith is a well known, talented and sought after Speaker.   A veteran, historian, rancher and family man, past broadcast personality and university instructor;

      His résumé also includes: Licensed Pilot, Member: Mount Rushmore Nat'l Memorial Society, Western Writers of America, Authors' Guild, Western History Association, South Dakota State Historical Society, American Legion, National Rifle Association, Rotary Club, American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters, past president of Northwest Arkansas Estate Planning Council and has been installed in the South Dakota Hall of Fame.

      Using wit & wisdom, humor & history, he makes skillful use of his many life experiences to tailor speeches to the occasion at hand; delighting equally groups of Authors, Insurance Agents, Bankers, Teachers & Educators, Tourists, Archivists & Researchers, as well as Tourist Promotion Groups and Veterans & Veteran-Reunion groups: Army - Navy - Air Force - Marines.

      Rex Alan Smith is also renowned for the books he has written about Mt Rushmore, "The Wounded Knee Massacre", on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota and two books about WWII.

      Born and raised on the western South Dakota family ranch where he lives today, Rex Alan Smith reflects the spirit, strength and wisdom that is the substance of prairie lore. His biography reads with as much interest as his works.

      Program chairman and other interested parties are encouraged to contact him.

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Reviews

"Inspiration combined with humor... it was like hearing will Rogers all over again.”
Greg Chancellor, National Writers' Association

“One of the best Honors Banquet MC's we’ve ever had.”
Don Bowers, managing Director, National Writers Association.

“I have heard many speakers during my years in the life insurance business, but I must say the speech you gave the Tulsa Chapter of Chartered Life Underwriters was the best I ever heard.”
George F. Bashaw, Jr. CLU, Northwestern Mutual Life ins. Co.

“The Oklahoma City Association almost never gives a speaker a standing ovation, but we gave you one and you deserved it.”
Jack Williams, CLU, Past President, Oklahoma City Ass of Life Underwriters

“You did a superb job. You are a master of verbal timing.”
Lowell Thomas, Author/Newsman/TV Personality, re: Keynote speech at American Academy of Achievement annual Salute to Excellence, Dallas, 1981

“Your special blend of wit and inspiration set exactly the right tone for the symposiums that followed.”
Ken Taylor, Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. re: keynote speech at American Academy of Achievement annual Salute to Excellence, New Orleans

“As the ratings you received will attest, your presentation to our banking School was a smashing success...
Charlotte May, Assistant Manager, Arkansas Bankers Association

“This convention of conferees from the U.S., Canada and Mexico was rated one of the best in our 54 years of existence, and at our opening banquet you set the tune. We old timers expected the standard opening fare but you didn’t give it to us, which is why you got that standing ovation. With wit and wisdom you coaxed us into using our heads, then left us laughing when you said goodbye.”
Dan Saults, Chairman of the Board, Outdoor Writers of America.

“It’s a rare thing for a speaker to put this bunch of crusty old veterans on their feet but at our reunion in Rapid City you did it!
Don Broderick, President, U.S. Asiatic Fleet 4-Stacker Destroyers Association.

“I told everyone at our AMERICAN WEST staff meeting this morning about your outstanding performance as Master of Ceremonies at the Old West Trails Associations s annual awards banquet...
Thomas W. Pew, Jr., Editor & Publisher, THE AMERICAN WEST.

“The audience at the Mount Rushmore Fourth of July ceremonies was captivated by your Mount Rushmore stories. Most important, by paying a long overdue tribute to the workmen who actually built the Monument--you aroused a great sense of pride in those surviving workmen and workmen's widows present .
Daniel Wenk, Superintendent, National Park Service, Mount Rushmore National Memorial.