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Don McAlavy
Don McAlavy is an author, historian, playwright and cowboy poet. He lives in New Mexico.
Janet McBride
Janet McBride is one of the finest yodelers to ever stroll across a stage.She is also a director of the Western Music Association and performs regularly at their annual International Music Festival. She is active in teaching young people who to do the Western yodel.
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Bob McCaig
(Deceased)
Until his retirement, Bob McCaig was an accountant for the Montana Power Company. McCaig wrote a dozen or so western novels, and served as president of the Western Writers of America in 1975-76.
Bob McCaig had a history of heart trouble, and he died at his home on April 28, 1982.
Edith McCall
Edith McCall was born in 1911 and has written many fiction and nonfiction books for children. She taught elementary school in Elmhurst, Ill. from 1930 to 1935 and in Western Springs, IL from 1943 to 1947. Then she worked as a reading consultant, working out of La Grange, Ill. from 1947 to 1955.Edith McCall's books include The Button Family Adventures (a series of 12 books published between 1953 and 1958), Log Fort Adventures (1958), Steamboats to the West (1959, 1980), Hunters Blaze the Trails (1959, 1980), Explorers in a New World (1960, 1980), Men on Iron Horses (1960), Settlers on a Strange Shore (1960, 1980), Wagons over the Mountains (1961, 1980), Cumberland Gap and Trails West (1961, 1980), Mail Riders: Paul Revere to Pony Express (1961, 1980), Pioneers on Early Waterways (1961, 1980), How We Get Our Cloth (1961), How We Get Our Clothing (1961), Gold Rush Adventures (1962, 1980), Heroes of the Western Outposts (1962), Pioneer Show Folk (1963), Pirates and Privateers (1963), 1980), Cowboys and Cattle Drives (1964, 1980), Pioneer Traders (1964, 1980), The Butternut Bill Books (8 books in this series, from 1965-69), Forts in the Wilderness (1968), 1980), English Village in the Ozarks (1969), Stalwart Men of Early Texas (1970, 1980), Message from the Mountains (Walker & Co., 1985), Mississippi Steamboatman: The Story of Henry Miller Shreve (Walker & Co., 1985), Pioneers on the Plains. She also wrote an adult historical book, Conquering the Rivers:Henry Miller Shreve and the Navigation of the Inland Rivers (Louisiana State University Press, 1984).
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was born in Rhode Island in 1933 to Charles Joseph and Gladys Christina McGrail McCarthy. He attended Catholic High School in Knoxville, Tenn., then went to the University of Tennessee in 1951-52. McCarthy joined the U.S. Air Force in 1953 and served four years.In 1957-60, McCarthy returned to the University of Tennessee. He won the Ingram-Merrill Award for creative writing in 1959 and 1960. He married a fellow student, Lee Holleman. They soon divorced. He married Anne DeLisle in England in 1966. Anne DeLisle and Cormac McCarthy were separated in 1976 (no children), and McCarthy moved soon after to El Paso, Texas, where he still lives. They were divorced a few years later.
His first book, The Orchard Keeper, was published in 1965 (Random House). In 1967, they moved to Rockford, Tennessee. His second book, Outer Dark ,was published by Random House in 1968. His third, Child of God ,was published in 1973. McCarthy wrote a screenplay for a PBS film called The Gardener's Son, which premiered in January 1977. In 1979, McCarthy published his fourth novel, Suttree. Blood Meridian was published in 1985, and it was his first western writing.
All the Pretty Horses, the first volume of The Border Trilogy, was published by Knopf in 1992. It became a New York Times bestseller, selling 190,000 hardbacks in six months. McCarthy won the National Book award and the National Book Critics Circle award for this book. And in 2001 it was turned into a movie directed by Billy Bob Thornton and starring Thornton and Matt Damon.
McCarthy's second volume of The Border Trilogy was The Crossing, and the third is Cities of the Plain, published in 1998.
Gary McCarthy
Gary McCarthy, Western author, was born in 1943. From 1970 to 1977, he worked as a labor economist for the State of Nevada and lived in Carson City. In 1977 he moved to La Jolla, CA and worked as an economist for Copley International Corporation until 1979.Gary spent five years writing novels before he made his first sale. He became a full-time writer in 1979. He writes a weekly syndicated column, "Frontier West," that is carried in several newspapers across the country.Gary McCarthy wrote The Derby Man, a story about a non-macho Westerner,and sold it to Doubleday and Co. in 1976. He has since written Showdown at Snakegrass Junction (1978), The First Sheriff (1979), Explosion at Donner Pass (1981), The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981, based on the screenplay), The Rail Warriors, Silver Shot (1981), The Pony Express War (1980),Winds of Gold (1980) Mustang Fever (1980), North Chase (1982), Rebel of Bodie (1982), Wind River (Ballantine, 1984), Powder River (Ballantine, 1985), Silver Winds, Last Buffalo Hunt (Doubleday, 1985), Mando (Bantam, 1986), The Mustangers (Double D, 1987) and Transcontinental (Paperjacks, 1987). His agent is Joseph Elder.
Gary McCarthy says his "Derby Man" series popped into his mind as the result of seeing a Clint Eastwood movie in 1973. He says, "Eastwood was playing the anti-hero. He gunned down people, mistreated a prostitute, made me so turned off by the macho image that I wanted to create the antithesis of him. Derby Man was going to be short, fat, couldn't draw a gun, couldn't ride, couldn't shoot. I wanted to blow away all stereotypes of the spaghetti westerns. I made him middle-aged, not young.
"I didn't know if the readers would identify with Derby Man, but they have. The see Derby Man face conflict and succeed, and they know they can do the same."
Other books by Gary McCarthy include Blood Brothers; Blue Bullet (The Horsemen, No 4); Bordertown Justice; The Buffalo Hunters; Cherokee Lighthorse; The Comstock Camels; Explosion at Donner Pass ; First Sheriff; Grand Canyon; The Gringo Amigo; Gunsmoke; Dead Man's Witness (Gunsmoke , No 2); Marshal Festus : A Novel (Gunsmoke, 3); The Horseman; The Last Buffalo Hunt; Legend of the Lone Ranger : A Novel; Mando; Mesa Verde; Mustang Fever; The Mustangers; North Chase; The Pony Express War; The Rail Warriors : Derby Man No. 6; Rebel of Bodie; Showdown at Snakegrass Junction; Silver Shot; Silver Winds; Silver Winds; Sodbuster; Stallion Valley (Horsemen No, 5); Texas Mustangers (The Horseman Book No. 3); Transcontinental ; Whiskey Creek; Yellowstone; Yosemite.
His "River" series includes: Powder River, Rivers West: The Cimarron River, Wind River , The Humboldt River, The Colorado (Rivers West : Book 3), The Russian (The Rivers West Series , No 4), The Russian River (Rivers West, No 5), The Gila (The Rivers West Series , No 6), and The American River (Rivers West, Book 7).
My thanks goes to Chris Stern for helping me update this particular listing.
Greg McCarty
Greg McCarty wrote a two-hour CBS Western which aired in May, 1988. He produced and directed a documentary on the horse drive in 1982. And he has taught and packaged filming with emphasis on the western.
B.J. McCausey
(Deceased)
B.J. McCausey's background included being an instructor on the rifle range for the U.S. Marine Corps at Parris Island and serving as an assault glider pilot in the Air Force in World War II. He has also worked as a printer, a journalist and a flying instructor. He has written articles for Old West, True West, American Legion Magazine, Western Horseman, and Frontier Times.B.J. McCausey was a life member of the National Rifle Association, and was a member of the Military Order of World Wars, Retired Officers Association, National World War II Glider Pilots Association, American Legion, Maryland & D.C. Pistol & Rifle Association,Maryland Western Horse Association and the International Typographical Union.
" Mac," as he was called by his friends, was also an accomplished painter. Many of his paintings were published in western magazines as illustrations, and some of his oils are hanging in the Silent Wings Museum (WWII USAF gliders)in Terrell TX.
NOTE: My thanks to Ginger McCausey, a distant relative of B.J. McCausey's, for providing part of the information above.
This listing is far from complete and may contain errors.
Therefore, all Western entertainers and/or their agents
are requested to submit recommended changes by
contacting Stan Paregien through his e-mail address.
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