Harry Sinclair Drago (20 March 1887 - 25 October 1979) was an American writer of screenplays and Westerns. He also wrote under the names Stewart Cross, Kirk Deming, Will Ermine, Bliss Lomax, J. Wesley Putnam and Grant Sinclair.[1]
Partial filmography
- Out of the Silent North (1922)
- Playthings of Desire (1924)
- Whispering Sage (1927)
- Silver Valley (1927)
- A Horseman of the Plains (1928)
- Hello Cheyenne (1928)
- Painted Post (1928)
- The Cowboy Kid (1928)
- The Overland Telegraph (1929)
- Where East Is East (1929)
- The Desert Rider (1929)
- The King of the Kongo (1929)
- Lotus Lady (1930)
- Murder in the Library (1933) (from Playthings of Desire)
- Secret of the Wastelands (1941)
- Buckskin Frontier (1943)
- The Leather Burners (1943)
- Colt Comrades (1943)
Bibliography
- Red River Valley
- Lost Bonanzas: True Stories of Buried Treasure and Lost Mines of the American West
- Outlaws on Horseback: The History of the Organized Bands of Bank and Train Robbers Who Terrorized the Prairie Towns of Missouri, Kansas, Indian Territory, and Oklahoma for Half a Century
- The Great Range Wars: Violence on the Grasslands
- Notorious Ladies Of The Frontier
- Great American Cattle Trails: The Story of the Old Cow Paths of the East and the Longhorn Highways of the Plains
- The Legend Makers: Tales of the Old-Time Peace Officers and Desperadoes of the Frontier
- Pay-Off at Black Hawk
- The Steamboaters; From the Early Side-Wheelers to the Big Packets
- River of Gold
- Out of the Silent North
- Trigger Gospel
- Road Agents And Train Robbers; Half A Century Of Western Banditry
- Whispering Sage
- Guardians of the Sage
- Wild, Woolly & Wicked: The History of the Kansas Cow Towns And the Texas Cattle trade
- Where the Loon Calls
- Canal Days In America; The History And Romance Of Old Towpaths And Waterways
- Lost Bonanzas: Tales of the Legendary Lost Mines of the Old West
- Suzanna: A Romance of Early California
- Laramie Rides Alone
- Montana Road
- Lone Wolf of Drygulch Trail/More Precious Than Gold
- Following the Grass
- This Way to Hell (1933) writing as Stewart Cross.
Screenplay Novelizations (all published by A. L. Burt, circa 1929–1932):
- The Champ
- Madam Satan
- Rio Rita
- The Singer of Seville (alternate title for Call of the Flesh)
- The Trespasser
Legacy
Drago's papers are at Syracuse University.[2]
References
- ^ Joseph F. Clarke (1977). Pseudonyms. BCA. p. 197.
- ^ "Harry Sinclair Drago Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University". Syracuse University.
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