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Mar 20, 1888 — Oct 25, 1979· 91 yrs

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Bliss Lomax

Also known as: Harry Sinclair Drago, Stewart Cross

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Bliss Lomax is a pseudonym of Harry Sinclair Drago. He was an American writer who began his writing career as a reporter and columnist for the Toledo Bee in Toledo, Ohio. In 1928, he went to work in Hollywood as a scriptwriter. He is best known for his historical fiction, most of which was set in the American Southwest. In 1960 he was awarded the Buffalo Award for best wester book for Wild, Woolly, and Wicked. In 1970 he was given the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Award for The Great Range Wars. He averaged three books a year, and published more than a hundred books over his career.

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The leather burners

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"Here are devil-may-care Rainbow Ripley and his grumbling sidekick, Grumpy Gibbs, horning into a hotbed of trouble in Crazy Horse, Nevada. When the two sleuths embroil themselves in the problems of some rustled cattle and some mysterious activity in the Lost Angel mine, there is no rest for anybody. The troubleshooters are in rare form in this story of their wild reckless adventures among the criminal classes" -- Publisher description.

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The phantom corral

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They called him The Kid ... His name was Johnnie and he never knew what it was like to get a decent break until the day he cut a killer stallion out of a herd and saddled him for his own. The Kid thought it was his first real stroke of luck. It wasn't. It was a set-up for trouble which few men would dare to fight ... but one hard-luck kid was ready to go against it ...

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The Lost Buckaroo

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The Lost Buckaroo mine in the Nevada desert has become a near legend. A man claims to have found it--and dies under outlaw guns. Range detectives Rainbow Ripley and Grumpy Gibbs go to work on the case. A trap is baited for the killers, and a long desert trek is begun.

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