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Lauran Paine


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The United States

aka John Armour, Reg Batchelor, Kenneth Bedford, Frank Bosworth, Mark Carrel, Claude Cassady, Richard Clarke, Richard Dana, J F Drexler, Troy Howard, Jared Ingersol, John Kilgore, Hunter Liggett, J K Lucas, John Morgan (many more).

Lauran Bosworth Paine (born February 25, 1916 in Duluth, Minnesota – 2003 in California) was an American writer of Western fiction. Paine wrote over 900 books, including hundreds of Westerns as well as romance, science fiction, and mystery novels. He also wrote a number of non-fiction books on the Old West, military history, witchcraft, and other subjects.

His apprenticeship as a Western writer came about through the years he spent in the livestock trade, rodeos, and even motion pictures where he served as an extr ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 3,840 ratings · 306 reviews · 314 distinct works • Similar authors
Open Range
4.18 avg rating — 1,090 ratings — published 1990 — 18 editions
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Lockwood
4.32 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions
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Halfmoon Ranch
4.27 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2014 — 8 editions
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Tears of the Heart
4.25 avg rating — 121 ratings — published 1995 — 20 editions
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White Bird
4.32 avg rating — 117 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions
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Cache Canon
4.30 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1998 — 8 editions
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Gunman
4.10 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions
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The Running Iron
4.12 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2000 — 7 editions
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Deadwood Ambush
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Feud on the Mesa
4.29 avg rating — 77 ratings — published 2005 — 10 editions
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