Wade Everett was the pseudonym used by the author
Will Cook William, Will, Willie, Bill or Billy Cook may refer to:
Sportsmen
* William Cook (billiards player), World Champion of English billiards in the 19th century
* W. T. Cook (William Thomas Cook, 1884–1970), American college sports coach
* Willi ...
for some of his
western novels. After Cook died in 1964, his Everett byline had become valuable enough that
Ballantine Books
Ballantine Books is a major book publisher located in the United States, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine with his wife, Betty Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973, which in turn was acquired by Bertelsmann in 1998 and remains ...
turned it into a house name for novels written by other authors, including
Giles A. Lutz
Giles Alfred Lutz (March 1910June 1982) was a prolific author of fiction in the Western genre. Born in March 1910 in Missouri, United States, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the American West that were published in pulp magazines. ...
.
["Entry for Cook, Will(iam Everett)," ''Encyclopedia of Frontier and Western Fiction'' edited by Jon Tuska and Vicki Piekarski, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1983, page 52 to 54.]["Entry on William Everett Cook" by R. E. Briney, ''Twentieth-Century Western Writers'' edited by Geoff Sadler, St. James Press, 1992, pages 140 to 142.]
Bibliography
*''First Command'' (1959)
*''Fort Starke'' (1959)
*''Last Scout'' (1960)
*''Big Man, Big Mountain'' (1961)
*''Killer'' (1962)
*''The Big Drive'' (1962)
*''Shotgun Marshal'' (1964)
*''Texas Ranger'' (1964)
*''Top Hand'' 1964)
*''Bullets for the Doctor'' (1965)
*''Cavalry Recruit'' (1965)
*''Texas Yankee'' (1966)
*''The Warrior'' (1967)
*''Vengeance'' (1967)
*''The Whiskey Traders'' (1968)
*''Temporary Duty'' (1969)
*''Wind River Kid'' (1974)
*''Lone Hand from Texas'' (1992)
*''Bullet Range'' (1993)
*''The Fighting Texan'' (1993)
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Everett, Wade
Western (genre) writers