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Show F. C. ROBERTSON HAS NEW BOOK OFF PRESS Article on Author Tells of New Western Released An interesting feature on Frank C. Robertson, well known author, of Mapleton, and president of the Utah League of Western Writers, published in the "News of Books and Authors," for March and April, 1940, tells of the release of a new book, "Cowboy Comes a Fightin' On," April 4. The article says that "Frank C. Robertson of Springville, Utah, doesn't like to be called a 'gentleman 'gentle-man farmer,' but thinks he qualifies. quali-fies. A real American dirt farmer, farm-er, he says, 'gets everything he makes out of a farm; a gentleman gentle-man farmer is one who puts everything he makes into a farm.' However, on his Utah ranch he does don overalls, he admits, milks cows, and drives an occasional occas-ional tractor. " 'As president of the Utah League of Western Writers this year,' he says, 'It devolved upon me to have considerable to do with staging our annual Writers' Round-up "a two-day affair in which over a hundred writers got together for fun and inspiration. We have had such prominent writers as Struthers and Kather-ine Kather-ine N'ewlin Burt, Ernest Haycox, Bennett Foster arid others as guest speakers. We really think we've got something quite unique at least for this part of the country.' coun-try.' "And so it is he keeps occupied between his rousing Westerners. His latest is 'Cowboy Comes a Fightin', released April 4th, a tale of the Wyoming outlaw country of the Eighties, when so many law-breakers took refuge there that they had to establish law and order to protect themselves from each other." |