Les Savage

Born in Alhambra, California, on October 10, 1922, and raised in Los Angeles, Les Savage Jr. began writing young and sold western fiction to the pulp magazines while still in his teens. His early stories appeared in popular magazines of the 1940s, and his career quickly grew from short fiction into novels.

He became known especially for westerns, with books including Treasure of the Brasada from 1947. Sources found during this search describe him as the author of more than twenty novels, and later readers and critics have remembered him as a strong, stylish voice in mid-century western fiction.

Savage died on May 26, 1958, at only 35 years old. His career was brief, but his stories continued to be reprinted long after his death, which says a lot about the lasting appeal of his frontier adventures.