Lewis B. Patten
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Lewis Byford Patten was a prolific author of American Western novels, born in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado
The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

. He often published under the names Lewis Ford, Len Leighton and Joseph Wayne. He used the last two names when writing in collaboration with Wayne D. Overholser
Wayne D. Overholser
Wayne D. Overholser was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym Lee Leighton...

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Novels

  • The Snake Stomper (1951) (writing as Joseph Wayne)
  • Massacre at White River (1952)
  • Gunmen's Grass (1954) (writing as Lewis Ford)
  • Gunsmoke Empire (1955)
  • Gunfighter from Montana (1955) (writing as Lewis Ford)
  • Gene Autry and the Ghost Riders (1955)
  • Back Trail (1956)
  • White Warrior (1956)
  • Rope Law (1956)
  • Massacre at San Pablo (1957)
  • Pursuit (1957)
  • Showdown at Stony Crest (1957) (writing as Joseph Wayne)
  • Valley of Violent Men (1957)
  • Gun Proud (1957)
  • Gene Autry and the Arapaho War Drums (1957)
  • Maverick Empire (1957) (writing as Lewis Ford)
  • Home Is the Outlaw (1958)
  • Five Rode West (1958)
  • Sunblade (UK, 1958); also published as Fighting Rawhide (US, 1959)
  • Showdown at War Cloud (1958)
  • The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958) (Big Little Book)
  • Tomahawk (1958) (writing as Lee Leighton)
  • The Man Who Rode Alone (1959)
  • The Ruthless Men (1959)
  • Savage Star (1959)
  • Top Man with a Gun (1959)
  • Hangman's Country (1960)
  • The Gun and the Man (1960) (writing as Joseph Wayne)
  • Savage Town (1960)
  • Range .45 (1960)
  • The Angry Horsemen (1960)
  • Renegade Gun (1961)
  • The Savage Country (1961)
  • Law of the Gun (1961)
  • Outlaw Canyon (1961)
  • Flame in the West (1962)
  • The Gold Magnet (1962)
  • Savage Vengeance (1962)
  • Vengeance Rider (1962)
  • The Ruthless Range (1963)
  • The Tarnished Star (1963)
  • The Scaffold at Hangman's Creek (1963)
  • Guns at Gray Butte (1963)
  • The Guilty Guns (1963)
  • Wagons East! (1964)
  • Ride for Vengeance (1964)
  • Proudly They Die (1964)
  • Giant on Horseback (1964)
  • The Killer from Yuma (1964)
  • The Arrogant Guns (1965)
  • Deputy from Furnace Creek (1966)
  • The Odds against Circle L (1966)
  • Prodigal Gunfighter (1966)
  • No God in Saguaro (1966)
  • Death Waited at Rialto Creek (1966); also published as The Trap (1969)
  • The Star and the Gun (1967)
  • Bones of the Buffalo (1967)
  • Ambush Creek (1967)
  • Cheyenne Drums (1968)
  • Death of a Gunfighter (1968)
  • Red Sabbath (1968)
  • The Trap (1969)
  • The Youngerman Guns (1969)
  • Posse from Poison Creek (1969)
  • Apache Hostage (1970)
  • A Death in Indian Wells (1970)
  • Red Runs the River (1970)
  • Six Ways of Dying (1970)
  • Showdown at Mesilla (1971)
  • Ride the Hot Wind (1971)
  • The Hands of Geronimo (1971)
  • Guilt of a Killer Town (1971)
  • Massacre Ridge (1971)
  • Track of the Hunter (1971)
  • A Killing in Kiowa (1972)
  • The Feud at Chimney Rock (1972)
  • Trial of Judas Wiley (1972)
  • The Cheyenne Pool (1973)
  • The Homesteader (1972)
  • The Hide Hunters (1973)
  • The Gun of Jesse Hand (1973)
  • The Ordeal of Jason Ord (1973)
  • The Tired Gun (1973)
  • Redskin (1973)
  • Two for Vengeance (1974)
  • Bounty Man (1974)
  • Death Stalks Yellowhorse (1974)
  • The Angry Town of Pawnee Bluffs (1974)
  • Lynching at Broken Butte (1974)
  • The Orphans of Coyote Creek (1975)
  • Vow of Vengeance (1975)
  • The Gallows at Graneros (1975)
  • Ride a Crooked Trail (1976)
  • The Lawless Breed (1976)
  • Ambush at Soda Creek (1976)
  • Man Outgunned (1976)
  • Hunt the Man Down (1977)
  • Villa's Rifles (1977)
  • The Trial at Apache Junction (1977)
  • The Killings at Coyote Springs (1977)
  • Cheyenne Captives (1978)
  • Death Rides a Black Horse (1978)
  • The Law in Cottonwood (1978)
  • The Trail of the Apache Kid (1979)
  • Rifles of Revenge (1979)
  • Ride a Tall Horse (1980)
  • Redskin Time (1982)
  • Tincup in the Storm Country (1996)
  • Trail to Vicksburg (1997)
  • Death Rides the Denver Stage (1999)
  • The Woman at Ox-Yoke (2000)
  • Blood on the Grass (2002)

Collections of shorter fiction

  • Sharpshod/They Called Him a Killer (1990)
  • Ride the Red Trail: A Western Trio (2001)
  • Guns of Vengeance: A Western Duo (2003)

Films

  • The Undefeated
    The Undefeated
    "The Undefeated" is a short story by Ernest Hemingway featured in Men Without Women. The main character, Manuel Garcia, is a bullfighter who recently got out of the hospital and is now looking for work. After an old promoter, Retana, hires him for a fight on the following evening, he enlists the...

    (1969) (novel) (uncredited)
  • Death of a Gunfighter
    Death of a Gunfighter
    Death of a Gunfighter is a 1969 Western film. It is most notable for the first use of the pseudonymous Allen Smithee directorial credit. It stars Richard Widmark and Lena Horne, and features an original score by Oliver Nelson...

    (1969) (novel)
  • Red Sundown (1956) (novel Back Trail)
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