The Western & Frontier Fiction Magazine Index

Biographical Notes: Page 5

Burleigh, Donald Q(uimby) (1894-1953) (items) (chron.)

Born in Augusta, Maine; probably lived most of his life in Maine, and was buried in Augusta; ; graduate of Bowdoin College; city editor of Kennebec Journal, Augusta, then proprietor of Maine News Bureau.

Burnett, W(illiam) R(iley) (1899-1982) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._R._Burnett

Burnette, Smiley; [i.e., Lester Alvin Burnett] (1911-1967) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smiley_Burnette

Burns, Tex; pseudonym of Louis L’Amour (1908-1988) (items) (chron.)

See www.louislamour.com/novels/hopalong4byLouis.htm

Burr, Harold C(ooper) (1884-1955) (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-harold-c-burr/146142164

Burrage, A(thol) Harcourt (1899-1951) (items) (chron.)

Born and died in Surrey, England.

Burrage, M(arguerite) Harcourt (1883-1955); also known as Rita Coatts (items) (chron.)

See www.goodreads.com/author/show/4042730.Rita_Coatts

Burroughs, Edgar Rice (1875-1950) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Rice_Burroughs

Burroughs, Jack (fl. 1910s-1920s) (items) (chron.)

Perhaps noted American poet John Burroughs (1837-1921).

Burtis, (Henry) Thomson (1896-1971) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/burtis_thomson

Butler, Ellis Parker (1869-1937) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellis_Parker_Butler

Buttram, Pat; [i.e., Maxwell Emmett Buttram] (1915-1994) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buttram

Byers, C(harles) A(lma) (1879-1964) (items) (chron.)

Born near Scott, Kansas; editor of newspapers in Missouri; contributor of short stories to magazines.

Byers, John Reid (fl. 1930s-1940s) (items) (chron.)

Not to be confused with scholar John R. Byers (1926- ).

Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron

Cadzow, Donald A. (1894-1960) (items) (chron.)

Archaeologist, anthropologist, connected with natural history museums. Born in Alaska (?); resident in Pennsylvania (?).

Caffrey, Andrew A(ugustine) (1891-1970) (items) (chron.)

Writer, served in the army. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts; lived in California. Not to be confused with Judge Andrew Augustine Caffrey (1920-1993).

Cagney, James (Francis, Jr.) (1899-1986) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cagney

Calamity Jane; [i.e., Martha Jane Canary] (1852-1903) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calamity_Jane

Caldwell, Erskine (Preston) (1903-1987) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erskine_Caldwell

Calhoun, Rory; [born Francis Timothy McCown] (1922-1999) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rory_Calhoun

California Joe; [i.e., Moses Milner] (1829-1876) (items)

See www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8036640

Call, Hughie (Florence) (1890-1969) (items) (chron.)

See socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/view?docId=call-hughie-1890-1969-cr.xml

Calloway, (Abram) Artemus (1883-1948) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/artemus-calloway-1883-1948.html

Cameron, Brett; pseudonym of Reginald Alec Martin (1908-1971) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Alec_Martin

Cameron, Robert A. (1885-1969) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Cameron.html

Cameron, William B(leasdell) (1862-1951) (items) (chron.)

Journalist and writer; “the only white man to survive the Frog Lake Massacre” in 1885. Born in Trenton, Upper Canada; died in Meadow Lake, Saskatoon.

Campbell, [Commander] A(rchibald) B(ruce) (1881-1966) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/commander-b-campbell.html

Campbell, Bill; [i.e., Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings] (1910-1990) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cummings

Campbell, Cliff (fl. 1930s-1950s); house pseudonym used by Lee Floren (1910-1995), Nelson C. Nye (1907-1997), Herbert Shappiro (1899-1975) & Abner J. Sundell (1913-2001) (items) (chron.)

See www.pulpartists.com/Sundell.html

Campbell, J(ulie) A. (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See writerjacampbell.wordpress.com

Campbell, Reginald (Wilfrid) (1894-1950) (items) (chron.)

Born in Ealing. Not to be confused with the Reverend Canon Reginald Campbell (1867-1956).

Campbell, Walter Stanley (1887-1957) (items) (chron.)

Born in Sevry, Kansas; educated at Southeastern State, Oklahoma, and Oxford; Professor of English Literature, writer; fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation; at University of Oklahoma in mid-1930s; died in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Campbell-Hicks, Jennifer (fl. 2010s) (items) (chron.)

See jennifercampbellhicks.blogspot.co.uk

Campion, Thomas (1567-1620) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Campion

Cane, A(rthur) R. (1865-1949) (items) (chron.)

See www.askart.com/artist/Arthur_Cane/11145546/Arthur_Cane.aspx

Canfield, Henry Spofford (1858-?) (items) (chron.)

Born in Louisiana in 1858; living in Wisconsin in 1900; death not traced.

Cannell, Charles (Henry) (1882-1947) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vivian_e_charles

Canutt, Yakima; [i.e., Enos Edward Canutt] (1895-1986) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakima_Canutt

Capeto, Isabel (1925-2018) (items) (chron.)

See www.findagrave.com/memorial/195449008/isabel-capeto

Capps, Benjamin (Franklin) (1922-2001) (items) (chron.)

See www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utarl/00022/arl-00022.html

Carew, Thomas (1595-1640) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carew

Carey, H(enry) (c1687-1743) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Carey_(writer)

Carey, Philip; [born Eugene Joseph Carey] (1925-2009) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Carey

Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne (1892-1978) (items) (chron.)

Forester, avid fisherman, wildlands advocate. Born in Mapleton, Iowa; lived in Colorado.

Carleton, Warren Elliot (1892-1944) (items) (chron.)

See archive.dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/article/1944/11/1/deaths

Carll, James R. (1904-1983); used pseudonym Jay Karth (items) (chron.)

See www.newspapers.com/article/the-hooker-advance-jay-karth-author-re/135536391

Carlson, Ralph (1907-2002) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Carlson.html

Carnahan, Worth (Blanchard) (1896-1973) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Carnahan.html

Carnegie, Dale (Breckenridge) (1888-1955) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Carnegie

Carr, Harry C. (1877-1936) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Carr

Carr, Robert V. (1877-?) (items) (chron.)

Explorer, adventurer, writer. Lived in Arizona.

Carse, Robert (1902-1971) (items) (chron.)

Merchant marine and writer. Born in Riverdale-on-the-Hudson, New York; died in East Hampton, Long Island, New York.

Carter, Robert A. (c1898-?) (items) (chron.)

pulp author who was jailed in 1930 for plagiarising at least 4 stories.

Cary, Phoebe (1824-1871) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Cary

Case, Richard (Hunter) (1913-2003) (items) (chron.)

See pulpartists.com/Case.html

Case, Robert Ormond (1895-1964) (items) (chron.)

See archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45834

Case, Victoria (1892-1972) (items) (chron.)

See nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv67390

Casey, Patrick (1893-1941) (items) (chron.)

California newspaperman and author; brother of Terence Casey. Had an adventurous early life. Died in Sausalito, California.

Casey, Robert J(oseph) (1890-1962) (items) (chron.)

Born in Beresford, South Dakota. Chicago newspaperman.

Casey, Terence (1895-1945) (items) (chron.)

Little is available on Terence Casey, but he too was from California, and he survived his brother, Patrick Casey.

Cassiday, Bruce (Bingham) (1920-2005) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cassiday_bruce

Castle, Frank (Pulliam) (1910-1994) (items) (chron.)

Born in New Mexico; graduate of University of Oklahoma; magazine and book writer; died in Linn, Oregon, and buried in Portland; listed as a stenographer with a tile company in the 1940 census; Chief Bosun’s Officer in U.S. Navy during WWII.

Castle, Marian (née Johnson) (1896-1993) (items) (chron.)

Born in Kendall County, Illinois. Attended Carroll College (Wisconsin) and Millikin University (Illinois), received a Ph.B. (Bachelor of Philosophy) from the University of Chicago. Lived in Denver, Colorado, where she received numerous awards from the Colorado Authors’ League. Died in Los Angeles, California.

Castle, Peggie; [working name of Peggy Thomas Blair] (1927-1973) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggie_Castle

Catton, George L. (1880-?) (items) (chron.)

Traveller and adventurer. Born in Norwich, Oxford County, Ontario, Canada; lived in Canada.

Cave, Hugh B(arnett) (1910-2004) (items) (chron.)

Prolific writer for pulp magazines; plantation owner in Haiti. Born in Chester, England; lived in Florida.