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What you possibly didn't know about John Thomas Edson, was that he :
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* confined to Amy barracks for long periods, devoured the books of escapist writers : Edgar Rice Burroughs and Edgar Wallace and sat through hours of movies starring John Wayne, Randolph Scott, Errol Flynn and Audie Murphy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juENeWSSsog and had his first appearance in print in 'Hints On Self-Preservation when attacked by a War Dog' when based in Germany in the Osnabruck camp magazine 'Shufti' in 1947.
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* after writing 45 books for Brown Watson, in 1968 was given the freedom by his new publisher, Corgi to explore the idea of an interconnected family of adventurers and at the age of 46 in 1974, made his first of his visits to the United States in search of reference books.
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* in his introduction to his one hundredth novel wrote : 'The hero would catch the ‘baddie’ cheating at cards, but there was only rarely an explanation of how this was done. Or the villain would be on the point of shooting the hero in the back, when his gun would jam and, except on a few occasions, the cause was not described... From those beginnings, I decided that if I wanted the kind of plot plus detail I enjoy, I must follow the old Yorkshire adage, ‘If you want a job doing properly, do it yourself.’ '
* worked in his bachelor-tidy study in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, with replica firearms on the wall and with secretary in the room next door handling fan mail, helping produce a 'JT Appreciation Society' newsletter, dealing with his income tax demands and the sales in Danish, German and Serbo-Croat and occasionally helping to act out particularly complicated Main Street gunplay featured in his writing.
.* in the 1960s, courted criticism with : accounts of women in catfights, punching, scratching and biting and tearing clothes off each other in the mud ; the fact that a young man sent to Broadmoor for killing a Sunday School teacher, claimed to have modelled himself on the half-Comanche, half-Irish 'Ysabel Kid' and his 1968 'The Hooded Riders' which portrayed an organisation resembling the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic resistance group.
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* in 1984 faced protests from the Labour Party when his 'JT’s Ladies' included a gunslinger called Roy Hattersley (left) named after its Deputy Leader and his sidekick Len Murray and three desperadoes named Alex Kitson, Alan Fisher and David Basnett, all well-known trade union leaders.
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* in an article for 'Time' magazine in 1999, declared that he had no desire to have lived in the Wild West and “I’ve never even been on a horse. I’ve seen those things, and they look highly dangerous at both ends and bloody uncomfortable in the middle. My only contact was to shoot them for dog meat.”
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In memory of those black and white tv westerns of the '50s and 60's :
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxIuIxqo2So&feature=related
Wells Fargo :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxeIyXitU-E&feature=relmfu
Bonanza :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL5LBnPyClg&feature=related
Laramie :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nNRvDo3Ukc&feature=related
The Rifleman :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX2oZ6Kv_qo&feature=related
Bronco Lane :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQWWRuVb_dM&feature=related
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkGb4yNUyUc&feature=related
Wyatt Earp :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZgLmEdSfVQ&feature=relmfu
Wagon Train with guest star 'Ronald Reagan' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkAk_JCe9XQ
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