Author. A graduate of Cornell College in New York, he worked as a newspaper correspondent in the Far East for two years and on the editorial staff of the New York Harold for five years. He was the press agent for Presidential Nominee Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 Bull Moose Campaign. A sergeant assigned to Company B, 137th Engineers, he was wounded while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. His story "Buck Privates" was published in 1928. His best known story, "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall," was published in 1931. This story was the basis of several motion pictures and television series, including "Frontier Marshall" (1934 and 1939) and "My Darling Clementine" (1946). He consulted on several episodes of the 1955-1956 television series, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp." Among his other works are "Wells Fargo" (1937), "Winchester 73" (1950) and "Power River" (1953). He received an Academy Award nomination under Writing - Original Story for "The Westerner," a movie produced by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport.
Author. A graduate of Cornell College in New York, he worked as a newspaper correspondent in the Far East for two years and on the editorial staff of the New York Harold for five years. He was the press agent for Presidential Nominee Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 Bull Moose Campaign. A sergeant assigned to Company B, 137th Engineers, he was wounded while serving with the American Expeditionary Forces in France. His story "Buck Privates" was published in 1928. His best known story, "Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshall," was published in 1931. This story was the basis of several motion pictures and television series, including "Frontier Marshall" (1934 and 1939) and "My Darling Clementine" (1946). He consulted on several episodes of the 1955-1956 television series, "The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp." Among his other works are "Wells Fargo" (1937), "Winchester 73" (1950) and "Power River" (1953). He received an Academy Award nomination under Writing - Original Story for "The Westerner," a movie produced by William Wyler and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan and Doris Davenport.
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