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Short Cut To Red River
''Short Cut to Red River'' is a 1958 western novel by Noel Loomis that won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel: * 1953 - Novel: "Lawman" by Wayne D. Overholser using the pseudonym Lee Leighton * 1954 - Novel: "The Violent Land" by Wayne D. Overholser (2) * 1955 - No .... Plot summary During an expedition to expand to establish a new trade route, Ross Phillips comes across white women captives that were taken by a Comanche chief. One of the captives have once saved Phillips' life. References 1958 American novels {{western-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Loomis
Noel Loomis (April 3, 1905 – September 7, 1969) was a writer, principally of western, mystery and science-fiction, in the middle of the 20th century. Born and raised in the American West, he was sufficiently familiar with that territory to write a useful history of the Wells Fargo company. Access to this collection may be available through a local public library. Personal life Noel Loomis was born Noel Miller Loomis on April 3, 1905, in the Oklahoma Territory town of Wakita, in the Cherokee Strip, and raised in Texico, in the New Mexico Territory, and in the West Texas town of Slaton. In later life he lived in Decanso, in the San Diego, California, Back Country from 1956. He married Dorothy Moore Green, who was also a writer, in 1945. There is evidence that he had a first wife named Johnie or Jonie, who was the mother of his children. Noel Loomis, Ward 10, Minneapolis, Minneapolis City, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 89–288 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spur Award For Best Western Novel
This is a list of the works of fiction which have won the Spur Award for Best Western Novel: * 1953 - Novel: "Lawman" by Wayne D. Overholser using the pseudonym Lee Leighton * 1954 - Novel: "The Violent Land" by Wayne D. Overholser (2) * 1955 - Novel: "Somewhere They Die" by L.P. Holmes * 1956 - Novel: "High Gun" by Leslie Ernenwein * 1957 - Novel: "Buffalo Wagons" by Elmer Kelton * 1958 - Novel: "Short Cut to Red River" by Noel Loomis * 1959 - Novel: "Long Run" by Nelson C. Nye * 1960 - Novel: "The Nameless Breed by Will C. Brown * 1961 - Novel: "The Honyocker by Giles A. Lutz * 1962 - Novel: "Comanche Captives" by Fred Grove * 1963 - Novel: "Follow the Free Wind" by Leigh Brackett * 1964 - Novel: "The Trail to Ogallala'' by Benjamin Capps * 1965 - Novel: "Sam Chance" by Benjamin Capps (2) * 1966 - Novel: "My Brother John" by Herbert R. Purdum * 1967 - Novel: "The Valdez Horses" by Lee Hoffman * 1968 - Novel: "Down the Long Hills" by Louis L'Amour * 1969 - Novel: "Tragg's Choice" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comanche
The Comanche or Nʉmʉnʉʉ ( com, Nʉmʉnʉʉ, "the people") are a Native American tribe from the Southern Plains of the present-day United States. Comanche people today belong to the federally recognized Comanche Nation, headquartered in Lawton, Oklahoma. The Comanche language is a Numic language of the Uto-Aztecan family. Originally, it was a Shoshoni dialect, but diverged and became a separate language. The Comanche were once part of the Shoshone people of the Great Basin. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche lived in most of present-day northwestern Texas and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, and western Oklahoma. Spanish colonists and later Mexicans called their historical territory ''Comanchería''. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Comanche practiced a nomadic horse culture and hunted, particularly bison. They traded with neighboring Native American peoples, and Spanish, French, and American colonists and set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
