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When The Violent Land came out in 1954, The New York Times Book Review said that Wayne D. Overholser writes a true Western . . . a story that is impossible to put down! The twelve Western stories in this book were written for the magazine market during that same period when he was making the transition to writing novels. They have never appeared in book form since their first publication.
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Wayne D. Overholser (born September 4, 1906 in Pomeroy, Washington; died August 27, 1996 in Boulder, Colorado) was an American Western writer. Overholser won the 1953 First Spur Award for best novel for Lawman using the pseudonym . In 1955 he won the 1954 (second) Spur Award for The Violent Land. He also used the pseudonyms and
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