William MacLeod Raine

William MacLeod Raine (1871-1954), author of such popular western adventure novels as A Texas Ranger (1910), Yukon Trail (1917) and A Man Four-Square (1919);

"They spurred their horses back across the creek and ran to rescue the girl. But she had flung herself forward face down far out of their reach. They dared not venture into the quivering bog after her. While they still stared in a frozen horror, the tragedy was completed. The victim of their revenge had disappeared beneath the surface of the morass."--prologue, A Man Four-Square

Born on 22 June 1871 in London England, Raine emigrated to the United States around the age of ten, settling in Arkansas. Raine's non-fiction work Famous Sheriffs and Western Outlaws (1920) is a moving account of the trials and tribulations of Pioneers settling the West, their conflicts with Native Americans and themselves, often settled at the end of a six shooter. Buffalo roamed the prairies and depraved and desperate men prowled the saloons and dance halls. Gambling, prospecting, hunting and drinking, men find their notoriety and fame in the new hierarchy of outlaws, rustlers, marshals and sheriffs. With fast paced plots and a variety of settings, Raine's fiction and non-fiction works embody the Spirit of the West, often in cowboy vernacular. They also inspired many films.

William MacLeod Raine died on 25 July 1954 and lies buried in the Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, USA. He was posthumously inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1959.

Other Raine titles include;

Wyoming (1908),
Ridgway of Montana (1909),
A Texas Ranger (1910),
Bucky O'Connor (1910),
Mavericks (1911) "a gripping yarn of the painted SouthWest",
Yukon Trail (1917),
A Man Four-Square (1919),
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West (1921),
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story (1921),
Man Size (1922),
Bonanza: A Story of the Gold Trail (1926),
Beyond the Rio Grande (1931),
Under Northern Stars (1932),
The Broad Arrow (1945), set in the Australian outback, and
Guns of the Frontier (1954).

Biography written by C.D. Merriman for Jalic Inc. Copyright Jalic Inc 2006. All Rights Reserved.

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