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Luke Short


Born
in Kewanee, Illinois, The United States
November 19, 1908

Died
August 18, 1975

Genre
Western


Luke Short (real name Frederick Dilley Glidden) was a popular Western writer.

Born in Kewanee, Illinois Glidden attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two and a half years and then transferred to the University of Missouri at Columbia to study journalism.

Following graduation in 1930 he worked for a number of newspapers before becoming a trapper in Canada then later moved to New Mexico to be an archeologist's assistant.

After reading Western pulp magazines and trying to escape unemployment he started writing Western fiction. He sold his first short story and novel in 1935 under the pen name of Luke Short (which was also the name of a famous gunslinger in the Old West, though it's unclear if he was aware of that when he ass ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 4,955 ratings · 418 reviews · 125 distinct works • Similar authors
Gunman's Chance
4.29 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 1941 — 32 editions
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Ride the Man Down
4.23 avg rating — 189 ratings — published 1942 — 27 editions
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Ramrod
4.27 avg rating — 179 ratings — published 1943 — 37 editions
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Ambush
4.23 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 1948 — 22 editions
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The Man From Two Rivers
4.17 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1974 — 10 editions
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Play a Lone Hand
4.09 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1950 — 22 editions
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Man From The Desert
4.18 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1971 — 9 editions
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Bounty Guns
4.16 avg rating — 125 ratings — published 1939 — 17 editions
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King Colt
4.23 avg rating — 120 ratings — published 1937 — 26 editions
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Hardcase
4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1941 — 25 editions
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