D. B. Newton
Personal Information
Description
Dwight Bennett Newton was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He began publishing Western short stories in the late 1930s. In 1941 he married Mary Jane Kregel, with whom he had two daughters. He received a master's degree in history from the University of Missouri in 1942. During World War II, he served in the Army Corps of Engineers. In the late 1950s, he worked as a Hollywood scriptwriter, writing scripts for western television series such as Wagon Train, Tales of Wells Fargo, and Death Valley Days. He was a founder and the first secretary-treasurer of the Western Writers of America. Over the course of his career, he wrote 70 novels, nearly 300 short stories, and 40 television scripts. He has also crafted an original musical based on the life of outlaw Jesse James. He stopped writing in 1999, and plays songs on an upright piano instead. He died at the age of 97.
Books
The savage hills
"Jim Bannister was on the dodge, with a $12,000 bounty on his head. He didn't think that befriending a seventeen-year-old kid would lead him into trouble. But the kid had a nervous trigger finger and Bannister found himself accused of murder, only this time it was for a killing he hadn't done"--
The Tabbart brand
Sam Cochran wasn't happy when he found out that his younger brother Mitch was running with the Denker boys. Denker, an old man with a gimp leg and a disposition as sour as turned milk, uses his shoestring layout in North Basis as a cover from brand-changing operations. When Sam found out that Denker had planned on a special rustling job ... kidnapping the wife of the biggest rancher in the county ... he knew he had to break it up before Mitch got into something that was really over his head. Only Sam didn't realize that he was on to a situation that was more explosive than one man could handle alone.
Guns of Warbonnet
Ed Martin is returning to his old home in Warbonnet. Years ago he was wrongly accused of a crime & driven out. But now he's coming back as a U.S. Marshal to find out what is going on in a community poised on the brink of a full-scale range war.
The Texans
Hideout valley
His name was Jim Bannister. He did not look like someone on the dodge, who had seen his way of life destroyed and himself hounded by all the power of a million dollar combine. And with a $12,000 reward for his capture, he always lived with the shadow of a rope upon him. For now under the assumed name of Jim Bryan he was temporary marshal in Morgan Valley, a town that he had felt easy in--until he found his own Wanted poster lying in full view on the floor of his office. He braced himself for a showdown with his unknown enemy and waited ...