Todhunter Ballard

Willis Todhunter Ballard (December 13, 1903 – December 27, 1980) was a Cleveland, Ohio-born American author, known for his Westerns and mystery novels.

Pseudonyms

Ballard also wrote westerns under the following pseudonyms: Jack Slade, Hunter D'Allard, Clay Turner, John Hunter, Sam Bowie, Parker Bonner, Brian Fox, and Clint Reno.^[1]

Schooling

He attended schools in Cleveland and Westtown, Pennsylvania. In 1926 he graduated from Wilmington College, Wilmington, Ohio.

Work

Ballard wrote thousands of magazines stories and over fifty television scripts.^[2] Almost all of these stories were in the mystery or western genre. Ballard died on December 27, 1980 in Mount Dora, Florida.

Partial bibliography

• Two-Edged Vengeance (1951) aka The Circle C Feud (1952)
• West of quarantine (1953)
• High Iron (1953)
• Oulaw Brand (1954) as Parker Bonner
• Trigger Trail (1955)
• Guns of the Lawless (1956)
• Trail Town Marshall (1957)
• The Marshall from Deadwood (1958) as John Hunter
• Trouble on the Massacre (1959)
• The Night Riders (1961)
• The Long Sword (1962) as Hunter D'Allard
• Gopher gold (1962)
• Desperation Valley (1964)
• Gold in California! (1965)
• Lassiter (1968) as Jack Slade
• The Wild Bunch (1969) as Brian Fox
• Chisum (1970) as Sam Bowie
• The Californian (1971)
• Nowhere Left to Run (1972)
• Loco and the Wolf (1973)
• Home to Texas (1974)
• Sierra Massacre (1974) as Clint Reno
• Trails of Rage (1975)
• The Sheriff of Tombstone (1977)
• Lost gold : a western duo
• A western bonanza; eight short novels of the West (1969)

Awards

• Spur Award, 1965 for ‘’Gold in California!’’.

References

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