Born in Brewster, Kansas, and came to this country
with his father and brother in 1903. There was no
school in Spring Coulee at that time and he went to
High River to live with his uncle Ezra Thompson to
go to school. After his father died in 1908 he went
to Calgary and after graduating there went to
California to the Junior College. He married Margaret
Trenholm, a school teacher from Nova Scotia in the
Spring Coulee School. He and his brother managed
the estate of his father and he farmed four farms and
worked in the Clara C. Thompson Elevator. While
working there he received an injury and went to
California for treatments and took up writing.

He wrote several books, especially about ranch life
for farm boys. The book "Prairie Colt" won the Boy's
Club of America Gold Medal in 1948. He wrote twelve
boy's books, Wild, Palomino, Phanton Roan and We
Were There With The California Rancheros being
some of them. He was one of the writers of a book
on the Northwest Mounted Police of Alberta, and
one of the ten best books on horses. He was a Past
President of Pen International, a writer's organization.

They had one son and two daughters, six grandchildren
and nine great grandchildren. He was 92 years old
when he died in 1988.

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