Gordon D. Sherreffs

Gordon Donald Shirreffs was an American author born in Chicago on January 15, 1914, who died on February 9, 1996. He is best known for writing Western and juvenile (young adult) novels, having published 79 novels of the West along with hundreds of short stories and scripts since the 1940s. Two of his novels, Judas Gun and Rio Bravo, were adapted into the films A Long Ride from Hell and Oregon Passage.