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Small Spread
Book by Booth, Edwin
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First published December 12, 1973
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Edwin Booth
121 books1 followerEdwin Booth was a writer of Western fiction.
Edwin Booth, who also wrote under the names Don Blunt and Jack Hazard, was born in 1906 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to Colorado, where he studied civil engineering at Colorado College. During summer vacations Booth drove a milk truck, worked as a postal clerk, and guided tourists through Colorado's Cave of the Winds. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch hand. After moving to California, Booth worked in a chain grocery store while studying accounting. He later started his own accounting firm which supported him until he became established as an author of westerns and mystery stories. In the 1960s, Edwin Booth was an officer in Western Writers of America, an organization of writers dedicated to the advancement and promotion of literature about the American West.
Edwin Booth, who also wrote under the names Don Blunt and Jack Hazard, was born in 1906 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to Colorado, where he studied civil engineering at Colorado College. During summer vacations Booth drove a milk truck, worked as a postal clerk, and guided tourists through Colorado's Cave of the Winds. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch hand. After moving to California, Booth worked in a chain grocery store while studying accounting. He later started his own accounting firm which supported him until he became established as an author of westerns and mystery stories. In the 1960s, Edwin Booth was an officer in Western Writers of America, an organization of writers dedicated to the advancement and promotion of literature about the American West.
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July 14, 2016
This is just an average western, a paperback, 156 pages. The protagonist, Glen Craig, has sold a Montana ranch and is on his way to Texas to buy a ranch where winters are not so severe when he stops in Lincoln Arizona. Glen gets in action in the first few pages, rescues the marshal from two hard-cases, receives a threat, avoids an assassin’s bullet and meets a beautiful woman. Glen hires on with Norma O’Reilly who owns the Small Spread which is in difficulty and is losing cattle to rustlers. The bad guy is a big rancher who wants Norma although he has a beautiful, but childless wife. Subsequent events and actions evolve from this situation.
Glen has more interaction with Norma than is usual in many westerns where the main characters meet once or twice and then realize in the last pages that they are in love.
Edwin Booth the Writer
Edwin Booth (1906-1980) was a writer of Western fiction. Edwin Booth, who also wrote under the names Don Blunt and Jack Hazard, was born in 1906 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to Colorado, where he studied civil engineering at Colorado College. During summer vacations Booth drove a milk truck, worked as a postal clerk, and guided tourists through Colorado's Cave of the Winds. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch hand. After moving to California, Booth worked in a chain grocery store while studying accounting. He later started his own accounting firm which supported him until he became established as an author of westerns and mystery stories. In the 1960s, Edwin Booth was an officer in Western Writers of America, an organization of writers dedicated to the advancement and promotion of literature about the American West.
Edwin Booth wrote Western novels in the 1960s & 1970s
internet searches are swamped with info on Edwin Booth, the actor [1833-93]
"Showdown At Warbird" [1957]
"Jinx Rider" [1957]
"Boot Heel Range" [1958]
"Danger Trail" [1959]
"Wyoming Welcome" [1959]
"Law of The Trigger" [1959]
"Lost Valley" [1960]
"Death On A Summer Day" [1960]
"Return To Apache Springs" [1960]
"The Broken Window" [1960]
"Outlaw Town" [1961]
"Reluctant Lawman" [1961]
"The Troublemaker" [1962]
"Sidewinder" [1962]
"Valley of Violence" [1963]
"John Sutter, Californian" [1963]
"The Dry Gulchers" [1964]
"Boot Hill Range" [1964]
"Devil's Canyon" [1964]
"Renegade Guns" [1965]
"The Stolen Saddle" [1965]
"No Spurs For Johnny Loop" [1967]
"A Time To Shoot It Out" [1967]
"Triple Cross Trail" [1967]
"Shoot-Out At Twin Buttes" [1967]
"Backshooters" [1969]
"Stranger In Buffalo Springs" [1969]
"The Man From Dakota" [1969]
Glen has more interaction with Norma than is usual in many westerns where the main characters meet once or twice and then realize in the last pages that they are in love.
Edwin Booth the Writer
Edwin Booth (1906-1980) was a writer of Western fiction. Edwin Booth, who also wrote under the names Don Blunt and Jack Hazard, was born in 1906 in Beatrice, Nebraska. He attended public schools in Nebraska and Iowa before moving to Colorado, where he studied civil engineering at Colorado College. During summer vacations Booth drove a milk truck, worked as a postal clerk, and guided tourists through Colorado's Cave of the Winds. In New Mexico, he worked as a ranch hand. After moving to California, Booth worked in a chain grocery store while studying accounting. He later started his own accounting firm which supported him until he became established as an author of westerns and mystery stories. In the 1960s, Edwin Booth was an officer in Western Writers of America, an organization of writers dedicated to the advancement and promotion of literature about the American West.
Edwin Booth wrote Western novels in the 1960s & 1970s
internet searches are swamped with info on Edwin Booth, the actor [1833-93]
"Showdown At Warbird" [1957]
"Jinx Rider" [1957]
"Boot Heel Range" [1958]
"Danger Trail" [1959]
"Wyoming Welcome" [1959]
"Law of The Trigger" [1959]
"Lost Valley" [1960]
"Death On A Summer Day" [1960]
"Return To Apache Springs" [1960]
"The Broken Window" [1960]
"Outlaw Town" [1961]
"Reluctant Lawman" [1961]
"The Troublemaker" [1962]
"Sidewinder" [1962]
"Valley of Violence" [1963]
"John Sutter, Californian" [1963]
"The Dry Gulchers" [1964]
"Boot Hill Range" [1964]
"Devil's Canyon" [1964]
"Renegade Guns" [1965]
"The Stolen Saddle" [1965]
"No Spurs For Johnny Loop" [1967]
"A Time To Shoot It Out" [1967]
"Triple Cross Trail" [1967]
"Shoot-Out At Twin Buttes" [1967]
"Backshooters" [1969]
"Stranger In Buffalo Springs" [1969]
"The Man From Dakota" [1969]
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