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Walt Coburn (1889-1971) was an American writer of Westerns. Coburn was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana Territory, the son of Robert Coburn Senior, the founder of the noted ''Circle C Ranch''.〔 John D. Flanagan, "Coburn, Walt", in ''Twentieth Century Western Writers'', edited by Geoff Sadler. St. James Press, 1991, ISBN 0-912289-98-8 , (pp. 129-34)〕 Coburn served in the military in the First World War. He later spent time as a cowboy and a surveyor, before becoming a full-time writer in the 1920s. ==Western author== Coburn began his career with Western stories in general fiction pulp magazines such as ''Adventure'' and ''Argosy''.〔Lee Server, "Coburn, Walt" in ''Encyclopedia of Pulp Fiction Writers''. Facts on File, 2002 ISBN 978-0-8160-4578-5 (pp. 65-66)〕 Later Coburn moved on to pulps specializing in Westerns, including ''Western Story Magazine'', ''Lariat Story Magazine'', ''Ace-High Western'' and ''Frontier Stories''.〔Jon Tuska, ''The Western Story: A Chronological Treasury'', University of Nebraska Press, 1999, ISBN 978-0-8032-9439-4 (p.xxviii).〕 He often wrote for the Fiction House pulp magazines ''Dime Western'' and ''Star Western'' who promoted Coburn as "the Cowboy Author".〔Jon Tuska, ''Star Western'', Gramercy Books, 1995, ISBN 0-517-14688-6 (p.132).〕 Coburn was enormously prolific; Flanagan states Coburn wrote almost two million words of fiction over a thirty year period.〔 Coburn was so popular that eventually, two pulp magazines - ''Walt Coburn’s Western Magazine'' and ''Walt Coburn’s Action Novels'' were issued, consisting mainly of reprints of Coburn's work.〔 After the pulps ended in the 1950s, Coburn switched his focus to writing paperback originals.〔 Coburn was a devout Christian. Coburn claimed, in his posthumously published autobiography ''Western Word Wrangler'' (1973) that God had chosen him to spread the Christian message through his fiction.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walt Coburn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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