AUTORES ORO: WILLIAM BYRON MOWERY

WILLIAM BYRON MOWERY William Byron Mowery (1899-1957) was known as "The Zane Grey of the Canadian Northwest." A teacher, naturalist and novelist, he was born in Adelphia, Ohio. He served in the Tank Corps during the last year of World War I.

From 1929 to 1948, he published fifteen novels and story collections that, as a total work, may be the most literate and realistic of the Mountie genre. Some of his best are HEART OF THE NORTH, PHANTOM CANOE, THE BLACK AUTOMATIC, VENGEANCE TRAIL, THE GIRL FROM GOD'S MERCIE and RESURRECTION RIVER. THE LONG ARM OF THE MOUNTED (1948) collected some of the best short Northwesterns ever written, including "The Long Shadow," "The Constable of Lone Sioux," and "A Lamb and Some Slaughtering."