Wayne D. Overholser

Wayne D. Overholser (September 4, 1906, in Pomeroy, Washington – August 27, 1996, in Boulder, Colorado), was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for Best Western Novel for Law Man using the pseudonym Lee Leighton. Law Man was made into the motion picture Star in the Dust, starring John Agar and Richard Boone (and Clint Eastwood in his first - uncredited - Western role), in 1956.[1] In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land.[2] He won the Spur Award for a third time in 1969 for his juvenile novel about the Meeker Massacre, with Lewis Patten.[3] Three additional pseudonyms were John S. Daniels, Dan J. Stevens and Joseph Wayne; combinations of his three sons' names.

Early life

Overholser grew up on two different farms in the Willamette Valley of Oregon.[4][5] He graduated from Pleasant Hill High School in 1924.[5] He first attended Albany College, then the Oregon Normal School.[5] He taught school in Tillamook and Bend.[4]

Overholser attended summer school from 1927-1934, taking botany classes and studying under writing professor W. F. G. Thacher (who also mentored Ernest Haycox, whom Overholser cited as an influence) at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1934 with a bachelor of science degree.[4][5][6][7] He married Evaleth Miller in 1934, and the couple traveled to Missoula, Montana in 1935 where Wayne studied with E. Douglas Branch and Robert Penn Warren.[5]

He sold his first story to Popular Western, a pulp magazine, in 1936.[5]

Overholser was referenced in Stephen King's novel Wolves of the Calla, part of King's Dark Tower, in which he was both mentioned explicitly, and is the namesake of a character in the town of Calla Bryn Sturgis.[8]

Work

credits title year publisher comment
Wayne D. Overholser Buckaroo's Code 1947
Wayne D. Overholser West of the Rimrock 1949
Wayne D. Overholser Draw or Drag 1950
Joseph Wayne The Snake Stomper 1951
Lee Leighton Law Man 1953
Dan J. Stevens Wild Horse Range 1953 Ace
Wayne D. Overholser Steel to the South 1953
Wayne D. Overholser Fabulous Gunman 1954
John S. Daniels The Nester 1954
Lee Leighton Beyond the Pass 1956
Wayne D. Overholser Cast a Long Shadow 1957
Wayne D. Overholser The Lone Deputy 1960
Wayne D. Overholser The Killer Marshal 1961
Wayne D. Overholser Standoff at the River 1961
Wayne D. Overholser War in Sandoval County 1961
Wayne D. Overholser The Bitter Night 1962
Wayne D. Overholser The Judas Gun 1962
Wayne D. Overholser The Trial of Billy Peale 1963
Wayne D. Overholser A Gun for Johnny Deere 1964
Wayne D. Overholser To the Far Mountains 1964
Wayne D. Overholser Day of Judgement 1965
Wayne D. Overholser Colorado Incident - reissue of Day of Judgement
Lee Leighton Big Ugly 1966
Wayne D. Overholser Ride Into Danger 1967
Wayne D. Overholser Summer of the Sioux 1967
Lee Leighton Hanging at Pulpit Rock 1967
Wayne D. Overholser North to Deadwood 1968
Wayne D. Overholser Dakota Jones 1969 German translation of North to Deadwood
Wayne D. Overholser The Meeker Massacre 1969 with Lewis B Patten
Lee Leighton You'll never hang me 1971
Wayne D. Overholser The Noose 1972
Wayne D. Overholser The Long Trail North 1973
Wayne D. Overholser Brand 99 1974
Wayne D. Overholser Diablo Ghost 1978
Wayne D. Overholser The Trouble Kid 1978
Wayne D. Overholser The Cattle Queen Feud 1979
Lee Leighton Cassidy 1980
Wayne D. Overholser Sun on the Wall 1981
Wayne D. Overholser Mason County War 1981
Wayne D. Overholser Dangerous Patrol 1982
Wayne D. Overholser The Long Wind 1986
Wayne D. Overholser Bunch Grass 1986
Wayne D. Overholser Gunplay Valley: The Sweet And Bitter Land 1987
Wayne D. Overholser Return of the Kid 1987
Wayne D. Overholser By Gun and Spur 1987
Wayne D. Overholser Red Snow 1988
Wayne D. Overholser The Dry Gulcher 1988
Wayne D. Overholser Gunlock 1988
Wayne D. Overholser Red Is the Valley 1988
Wayne D. Overholser Land of Promises 1989
Wayne D. Overholser Proud Journey 1989
Wayne D. Overholser Valley of Guns 1991
Wayne D. Overholser Cast a Long Shadow 1991
Wayne D. Overholser Desperate Man 1992
Wayne D. Overholser The Violent Land 1992
Wayne D. Overholser Hearn's Valley 1992
Wayne D. Overholser Tough Hand 1992
Wayne D. Overholser The Hunted 1994
Wayne D. Overholser The Patriarch of Gunsight Flat 1996
Wayne D. Overholser They Hanged Wild Bill Murphy 1996
Wayne D. Overholser Nightmare in Broken Bow 1997
Wayne D. Overholser Nugget City 1997
John S. Daniels War Party 1997
Wayne D. Overholser The Violent Men 1997
Wayne D. Overholser Riders of the Sundowns 1997
Wayne D. Overholser Buckskin Man 1998
Wayne D. Overholser The Petticoat Brigade 1998
Wayne D. Overholser Oregon Trunk 1998
Wayne D. Overholser Chumley's Gold 1999
Wayne D. Overholser Ride the Red Trail 2000
Wayne D. Overholser Tales of the West 2000
Wayne D. Overholser Gunflame 2000
Wayne D. Overholser The Outlaws 2000
Wayne D. Overholser Gateway House 2001
Wayne D. Overholser Revenge in Crow City 2001
Wayne D. Overholser Rainbow Rider 2001
Wayne D. Overholser The Day the Killers Came 2002
Wayne D. Overholser The Three Sons of Adam Jones 2003
Wayne D. Overholser The Bad Man 2003
Wayne D. Overholser Wild Horse River 2003
Wayne D. Overholser The Law at Miles City 2004
Wayne D. Overholser Bitter Wind 2006
Lee Leighton Fight for the Valley 2007
Lee Leighton Tomahawk 2009
Wayne D. Overholser Pass Creek Valley 2009
Wayne D. Overholser Shadow on the Land 2009
Wayne D. Overholser Law at Angel's Landing 2010
Wayne D. Overholser The Man from Yesterday 2010
Wayne D. Overholser Death of a Cattle King 2011
Wayne D. Overholser Ten Mile Valley 2012
Wayne D. Overholser The Waiting Gun 2013
Wayne D. Overholser Swampland Empire 2013

Collections

  • The Best Western Stories of Wayne D. Overholser (1984) aka The Best Western Stories

References

  1. ^ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049793/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm retrieved 11/17/17 [user-generated source]
  2. ^ "Spur Award Winning Author". waynedoverholser.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
  3. ^ "Winners". 12 May 2012.
  4. ^ a b c "Ex-Eugenian writes novel". The Eugene Guard. February 21, 1952.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Overholser, Stephen. "Wayne D. Overholser's Life Story". Retrieved January 5, 2025.
  6. ^ "Writing the Northwest: A Reporter Looks Back by Hill Williams (review)". Oregon Historical Quarterly. 119 (3). Oregon Historical Society. Fall 2018.
  7. ^ Crafts, Fred (April 9, 2000). "Portland author quietly moseyed into the sunset". The Register-Guard. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
  8. ^ "Wayne's Books". waynedoverholser.com. Retrieved 2017-11-17.

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