Douglas E. Hirt
Douglas E. Hirt is the author of Devil's Wind (Doubleday, 1989).
Charles E. Hoffhaus
Charles E. Hoffhaus is a senior managing partner of a law firm. He has a keen interest in the activities of the French in the Old West. He is the author of Chez Les Canses: Three Centuries at Kawsmouth (Lowell Press, 1984).
Dr. Abraham Hoffman
Dr. Abraham Hoffman, a research historian, holds the Ph.D. He wrote, "The Transformation of Hopalong Cassidy," in The Roundup (May, 1985), 12-14; and "The Transformation of The Cisco Kid" in the March issue. He also writes as Hamlin Haynes. He is the book editor of the bi-monthly magazine, The Californians. His articles have also appeared in The History Teacher.
He is also the author of several nonfiction books, including An Oklahoma Tragedy: The Shooting of the Mexican Students, 1931 (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1987), Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression (University of Arizona Press, 1974), and Vision or Villainy: Origins of the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Water Controversy (Texas A&M University Press, 1981).
Don Hofsommer
Don Hofsommer has written The Southern Pacific: 1901-1985 (Texas A&M University Press, 1986).
Ray Hogan
Robert Raymond Hogan knows about cowboys, lawmen and Indians. His great-grandfather was murdered by Pawnee or Osage Indians in Kansas back in 1825, and his father was a lawman.
Ray Hogan was born in Willow Springs, Mo., but at the age of five he moved with his parents to New Mexico and has been there ever since. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a truck salesman, a bookkeeper, and tire store manager. Then, with the help of a correspondance journalism course and a couple of college English classes, Hogan began to write short stories for magazines in the USA, Germany and Czechoslovakia. His big break came as a regular contributor to some national sports journals, such as Field & Stream, Outdoor Life, Hunting & Fishing and others.
Ray Hogan's first novel, Ex-Marshall, was published in 1956. And by the end of 1986, 30 years later, he had written 142 novels, 200 articles and 25 short stories. (See a long article by Marc Rupert about Hogan's career in Roundup for Oct. and Nov.-Dec. 1986 and Jan. 1987.)
Ray Hogan is the author of Ex-Marshall (1956), The Friendless One (1957), Walk a Lonely Trail (1957), Land of the Strangers (1957), Longhorn Law (1957), Marked Man (1958), Hangman's Valley (1959), Wanted: Alive! (1959), Marshal Without a Badge (1959), Outlaw Marshal (1959), Guns Against the Sun (1960), Lead Reckoning (1960), The Ghost Raider (1960), The Shotgunner (1960), The hasty hangman (1960), Raider's Revenge (1960), Rebel Raid (1961), The Life and Death of Clay Allison (1961), The Ridge-Runner (1961), Ride to the Gun (1961), Ambush at Riflestock (1961), ---and much more!!
Jack Dalton Hogg
(Deceased)
Jack Dalton Hogg, an actor and singer known as "Curly," was born on November 10, 1915. He was in the group, "Sons of the Pioneers".Jack Dalton Hogg died on Sept. 4, 1974. His remains are at the Glen Abbey Memorial Park Cemetery ( Section 72 grave 123 lot 3)in Bonita, CA.
Dr. Stan Hoig
Stan Hoig was born in Duncan, Okla. on June 24, 1924. He grew up near Gage, Ok. He earned his B.A. at Oklahoma State University in 1949, his M.A. (1964) and Ph.D. (1971) at the University of Oklahoma. He was a technical writer at Douglas Aircraft Co. in Tulsa, Okla. from 1953 to 1956, then moved to Houston, Tex. to work as an editor in the Baroid Division of National Lead Company. He became a journalism professor at Central State University in Edmond, Okla. in 1964. He is now retired.
Stan Hoig is the author of sixteen books, including The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes (University of Oklahoma Press, 1980), The Battle of the Washita (Doubleday, 1976; University of Nebraska Press, 1979), The Humor of the American Cowboy (Caxton, 1958; University of Nebraska Press, 1970), John Simpson Smith (A.H. Clark, 1974), and The Sand Creek Massacre (OU Press, 1961, 1982). On April 18, 1997, Hoig was inducted into the Oklahoma Historians Hall of Fame.
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