. . . Be on the Houston and Texas Central, westbound. Please bring your savings. I want to make this venture profitable. Bring a friend too. You won't be able to handle this alone. Sergeant Finley Burkhauser was a man who called every hand, bluff or not. And this telegram was no bluff. He knew just the friend he would bring, too -- fellow Texas Ranger Jim McClintock.
William Everett Cook was born in Richmond, Indiana in 1922 and died in 1964. He began writing for publication in 1952 for Popular Library. During his short life Cook was a soldier, commercial aviator, deep-sea diver, logger, peace officer, and writer of western and adventure novels and stories. His hobbies included sports car racing, sailing, judo, and barbershop singing. His pseudonyms include Wayne Everett, James Keene, Frank Peace, and William Richards.
William Everett Cook was a writer of western and adventure novels and stories. Collection consists of correspondence (273 letters), manuscripts for his novels, short stories, and one novella, and an extensive collection of western pulp fiction containing short stories by Cook.