Harry Sinclair Drago
Harry Sinclair Drago (March 20, 1887 – October 25, 1979) was an American writer of screenplays and Westerns. He also wrote under the names Stewart Cross, Kirk Deming, Will Ermine, Bliss Lomax, J. Wesley Putnam and Grant Sinclair.[1]
Partial filmography
[edit]- Out of the Silent North (1922)
- Playthings of Desire (1924)
- Whispering Sage (1927)
- Silver Valley (1927)
- A Horseman of the Plains (1928)
- Hello Cheyenne (1928)
- Painted Post (1928)
- The Cowboy Kid (1928)
- The Overland Telegraph (1929)
- Where East Is East (1929)
- The Desert Rider (1929)
- The King of the Kongo (1929)
- Lotus Lady (1930)
- Murder in the Library (1933) (from Playthings of Desire)
- Secret of the Wastelands (1941)
- Buckskin Frontier (1943)
- The Leather Burners (1943)
- Colt Comrades (1943)
Bibliography
[edit]- Red River Valley
- Lost Bonanzas: True Stories of Buried Treasure and Lost Mines of the American West
- Outlaws on Horseback: The History of the Organized Bands of Bank and Train Robbers Who Terrorized the Prairie Towns of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma for Half a Century
- The Great Range Wars: Violence on the Grasslands
- Notorious Ladies Of The Frontier
- Great American Cattle Trails: The Story of the Old Cow Paths of the East and the Longhorn Highways of the Plains
- The Legend Makers: Tales of the Old-Time Peace Officers and Desperadoes of the Frontier
- Pay-Off at Black Hawk
- The Steamboaters; From the Early Side-Wheelers to the Big Packets
- River of Gold
- Out of the Silent North
- Trigger Gospel
- Road Agents And Train Robbers; Half A Century Of Western Banditry
- Whispering Sage
- Guardians of the Sage
- Wild, Woolly & Wicked: The History of the Kansas Cow Towns And the Texas Cattle trade
- Where the Loon Calls
- Canal Days In America; The History And Romance Of Old Towpaths And Waterways
- Lost Bonanzas: Tales of the Legendary Lost Mines of the Old West
- Suzanna: A Romance of Early California
- Laramie Rides Alone
- Montana Road
- Lone Wolf of Drygulch Trail/More Precious Than Gold
- Following the Grass
- This Way to Hell (1933) writing as Stewart Cross.
- The Loner (1956) writing as Bliss Lomax
Screenplay Novelizations (all published by A. L. Burt, circa 1929–1932):
- The Champ
- Madam Satan
- Rio Rita
- The Singer of Seville (alternate title for Call of the Flesh)
- The Trespasser
Legacy
[edit]Drago's papers are at Syracuse University.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 197.
- ^ "Harry Sinclair Drago Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University". Syracuse University.
External links
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