Captain Allan Rucker Bosworth (ps

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 Alamo Boyd, Jackson W. Horne) (October 29, 1901 – July 18, 1986) served in the United States Navy

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 and United States Navy Reserve

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 for some 38 years and authored a number of books as well as magazine articles. He was born in San Angelo, Texas, worked as a journalist in San Francisco, and served in Japan as a Naval public relations officer. He traveled extensively in Europe and the Far East, and lived in Roanoke

Roanoke, Virginia

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, Virginia, for the most of his life. He wrote several novels and short stories in the Western fiction

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genre.