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Show FRANK C. ROBERTSON HAS TWO BOOKS OFF PRESS Famous Mapleton Author Will Speak at Idaho Writers' Conference October 19th to 26th Frank C. Robertson, internationally known western west-ern writer, has a new serial novel starting in the second sec-ond October issue of "Ranch Romances" magazine, as well as a new book just off the press in Ene-land. The new serial is called, "Firebrand "Fire-brand From Burnt Creek," and the issue containing it will be found on the newsstands from September 13th to the 27th. The novel will be published in book form by the E. P. Dutton Publishing Publish-ing company of New York City sometime in November, according accord-ing to Mr. Robertson. The new book just published iu England came off the press the latter part of August and carries the title, "Rifle Law." It was published pub-lished by the Collins Clear-Type Press in London. Mr. Robertson is working on another western book for the English field but expects ex-pects to have difficulty getting it published there because of the war. Until now, however, he reports re-ports that his contact with the English publishers has not been seriously hampered by war activities. activi-ties. The English book, "Rifle Law," is about Ben Clegg, who found himself riding stirrup to stirrup with a man who had just killed another in the little town of Riverbed, River-bed, a notorious den of thieves, a tough little town set in a country coun-try which was a picnic ground for rustlers, where coyotes yapped their nightly serenade to the stars. In this unfriendly country, surrounded sur-rounded by enemies seen and unseen. un-seen. Ben, in sole charge of a vast herd of cattle seeking winter range, ran into trouble, with more than a spice of danger. The American novel, "Firebrand "Fire-brand From Burnt Creek," has as its setting Burnt Creek, which lies on the other side of a mountainous moun-tainous divide, all rough-timbered (Continued on page eight) Frank C. Robertson Has Two Books Off Press (Continued from page ) country where every now and then wild cattle go crashing through the timber. It was the country of Jud Motley and his hired crew of gunmen just such a gang as Frank Robertson writes about with a technique that readers of fast-moving western stories admire. ad-mire. During an interview, Mr. Robertson Ro-bertson announced that he had accepted an invitation to speak at the Idaho Writers' Roundup which will take place October 19 to 2 6 at Boise. As president of the Utah League of Western Writers, Mr. Robertson just recently conducted the Annual Utah Writers' Roundup Round-up at Ogden, with more than 200 Utah writers attending. With the publishing of "Rifle Law" and "Firebrand From Burnt Creek," Mr. Robertson will have published sixty-seven novels and more than 150 stories and magazine maga-zine articles. Mr. Robertson has written under un-der the pseudonyms of Robert Crane, Frank Chester Field, Rupert Ru-pert Strong, King Hill, and other similar names. He has had his books published in six languages Czechoslovalfian, Swedish, Hungarian, Hun-garian, Polish, Dutch, and English Eng-lish and Mr. Robertson made the statement that his books had a larger following in England, Australia Aus-tralia and other English possessions posses-sions than in America, and consequently con-sequently the war in Europe had affected his sales somewhat. About his western stories, Mr. Robertson says: "I do nof try to follow the formula of the eastern western story writers, but I do try to make with such limits as there are a realistic western story rather ra-ther than the 'blood-and-thunder' type." |