Bliss Lomax
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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.
Books
The law busters
Bad men were their business Their names were Ripley and Gibbs, and they were known from one end of the West to the other.When there was trouble - big trouble -you sent for them. The price was high, but so were the odds against them - and if Ripley and Gibbs didn't make it, you didn't pay one red cent. They were on holiday when they rode into the raw mining camp called Lively. But their Colts didn't stay in their holsters long. The land grabbing gang of ruthless guns they ran into made the partners' usual line of business a pleasure - and their pleasure was flying lead...
The phantom corral
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 ...
Secret of the wastelands
"Jim Morningstar guides a scientific expedition to the Pueblo Grande ruins in Nevada, but comes up against a community of Chinese--who have taken refuge in a fertile hidden valley with a gold mine and are determined to keep their secret--and a gang of owlhoots determined to discover that secret and profit from it"--
Stranger with a gun
When the small town of Canadian Crossing was sold down the river by a new Indian Land Act. Suddenly every rancher had to hit the trail with his herd-neighbor fighting and killing neighbor over every waterhole and grass plot between Oklahoma and Montana. Frank Kinnard had sworn to get old Jesse's herd to the Northlands before the snow fell. But he'd have to take on every murdering jay-hawker and thieving, lying trail bum along the way to do it.
The leather burners
"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.