Ralph
Connor
(Charles
W. Gordon)
(1878-1927)
was born
in
Glengarry,
Ontario.
He became
a
missionary
to the
miners and
lumbermen
in the
Rocky
Mountains.
In 1915,
he want to
France as
Chaplain
of the
Canadian
forces and
came back
a
Major.
"The
men in his
books are
those in
the mines
and lumber
camps of
the
mountains,
fighting
out that
eternal
fight for
manhood,
strong,
clean,
God-conquered."
Curwood,
James
James
Oliver
Curwood (1878-1927)
was born
in Owosso,
Michigan.
Much of
his
writing is
of Canada
and .
Gregory,
Jackson
Jackson
Gregory (1882-1943)
was born
in
Salinas,
California.
In his
publisher's
words, he
won a
place as
one of the
most
entertaining
and
successful
of
American
story
tellers by
living his
stories.
Often he
would
locate
himself in
the place
where the
plot as
laid and
become for
the time a
native
son.
Grey,
Zane
Zane
Grey
Hough,
Emerson
Emerson
Hough
Knibbs,
Henry H.
Henry
H. Knibbs
Kyne,
Peter B.
Peter
B. Kyne was
born in
San
Francisco
under the
shadow of
Old
Mission
Dolores.
He once
wrote a
short
story and
had the
good luck
to sell
it; later
when
business
ventures
left him
penniless
he
remembered
his good
luck, so
tried his
hand
again.
From then
on, he
began
writing.
For humor,
clever
situations
-- in
fact, an
all-around
good story
-- you
can't beat
Peter
Kyne.
Mann,
E. B.
E.
B. Mann
(1902-1989)
was born
in Hollis,
Kansas.
In 1927 he
began
writing
western
novels and
short
stories
while
living in
New York
City.
Eventually,
he became
a
columnist
for Field
&
Stream
magazine
and
managing
editor of
The
American
Rifleman.
In the
1950s, he
published
pioneering
research
on the
American
southwest.
In
addition
to his
writing
and
editing
abilities,
Mann was a
noted
adventurer
and
outdoorsman
who
advocated
the
preservation
of
"sturdy
American
traditions."
Raine,
William
William
MacLeod
Raine (1871-1954)
was born
in London,
England
and came
to the US
at 10
years of
age.
He would
become a
newspaper
man and
journalist
on several
Western
papers
&
magazines.
After the
Spanish
American
War he
rode the
plains
with the
Arizona
Rangers
before
becoming a
Western
novelist.
Seltzer,
Charles
Charles
Alden
Seltzer (1875-1942)
was born
in
Janesville,
Wisconsin.
His son
Louis
recalled
in his
autobiography
that his
father
wrote 200
stories
before he
sold his
first one.
Too poor
to buy
paper on
which to
write them
in
longhand,
his wife
was able
to obtain
butcher's
paper from
a kind
neighborhood
meat man.
Once he
found
markets
for his
stories
and began
writing
novels, he
became one
of the
most
successful
and
prolific
Western
writers of
his day.
Wister,
Owen
Owen
Wister (1860-1938)
was a
Harvard-educated
lawyer
from
Philadelphia.
He went
West in
1885. His
best
selling
novel of
1902,
"The
Virginian"
is
considered
the first
Western
ever
written.
Wright,
Harold
Bell
Harold
Bell
Wright (1872-1944)
was
born near
Rome, New
York.
All of
Wright’s
stories
were about
the West,
and most
dealt with
romance,
pioneers,
and
sometimes
cowboys.
But Wright
always
went
deeper.
Wright’s
pivotal
issues
were
always
moral, and
he spent
much time
delving
into the
emotional
and
spiritual
struggles
of the
heroes.
