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A. B. Guthrie
Alfred Bertram Guthrie Jr. (January 13, 1901 – April 26, 1991) was an American novelist, screenwriter, historian, and literature, literary historian known for writing Western (genre), western stories. His novel ''The Way West'' won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and his screenplay for ''Shane (film), Shane'' (1953) was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Award. Biography Guthrie was born in 1901 in Bedford, Indiana. When he was six months old he relocated with his parents to Montana, where his father became the first principal of the Teton County Free High School in Choteau, Montana, Choteau. His father was a graduate of Indiana University, his mother from Earlham College at Richmond, Indiana. A constant reader, Guthrie tried to write while in high school, "fiction pretty much, some essays, but I majored in journalism. My father had been a newspaper man for four years in this little town in Kentucky, and I guess he thought it was the way to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford, Indiana
Bedford is a city in Shawswick Township, Lawrence County, Indiana, Shawswick Township and the county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, Lawrence County, Indiana, United States. In the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census, the population was 13,792. That is up from 13,413 in 2010 United States Census, 2010. Bedford is the principal city of the Bedford, IN Micropolitan Statistical Area, which comprises all of Lawrence County. Early history Bedford was laid out as a town and the county seat of Lawrence County, Indiana, Lawrence County, Indiana, United States around 1825. The original county seat was in Palestine, Lawrence County, Indiana, Palestine, four miles to the south, but was moved, at the urging of the legislature, to a new location as the original location near the White River (Indiana), White River was deemed unhealthy because of malaria spread by mosquitoes. The new site was named Bedford at the suggestion of a prominent local businessman, Joseph Rawlins, who had relocate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
