Dwight Bennett Newton (January 14, 1916 – June 30, 2013) was an American writer of westerns. He also wrote under the names Dwight Bennett, Clement Hardin, Ford Logan, Hank Mitchum and Dan Temple. Newton was one of the six founder members of the Western Writers of America. He was a writer and story consultant for various television shows including Wagon Train and Tales of Wells Fargo.

Biography Newton was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and began to write short stories for Western magazines while studying history at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. After graduating with a master's degree in 1942, he served in the Army Corps of Engineers until 1946, being based at Camp Abbot, a training center near Bend, Oregon, in 1943. After the war he settled in Bend, and became a professional writer, publishing 74 novels under various names, including one, Range Boss (Pocket Books, 1949), that was the first work of fiction issued in paperback, without having first appeared in hardcovers.

In 1952 Newton was one of the six founder members of Western Writers of America, Inc., serving as its first secretary-treasurer, and as a board member for ten years.

In the late 1950s, Newton moved to Hollywood to work as a writer and story consultant for several television shows, before returning to Bend in 1965.

During the 1970s, he gave classes in fiction writing at Central Oregon Community College, and at the Haystack summer school at Cannon Beach.

Personal life Newton married Mary Jane Kregel of Nebraska City, Nebraska, on January 29, 1941. They had two daughters.

He died at his home in Bend, aged 97, and is buried at Tumalo Cemetery, Deschutes County, Oregon.

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Novels

+ credit title publisher year D. B. Newton Guns of the Rimrock Phoenix Press 1946 D. B. Newton Range of No Return Complete Western Book magazine 1949 June D. B. Newton The Outlaw Breed Gold Medal Books 1955 D. B. Newton Maverick Brand Monarch Books 1962 D. B. Newton On the Dodge Berkley 1962 D. B. Newton Guns of Warbonnet Berkley 1963 D. B. Newton Bullets on the Wind Berkley 1964 D. B. Newton Fury at Three Forks Berkley 1964 D. B. Newton The Savage Hills Berkley 1964 D. B. Newton The Manhunters Berkley 1966 D. B. Newton Hideout Valley Berkley 1967 D. B. Newton The Tabbart Brand Berkley 1967 D. B. Newton Shotgun Freighter Berkley 1968 D. B. Newton The Wolf Pack Berkley 1968 D. B. Newton The Judas Horse Berkley 1969 D. B. Newton Syndicate Gun Berkley 1972 D. B. Newton Massacre Valley Curtis Books 1973 D. B. Newton Range Tramp Berkley 1973 D. B. Newton Bounty on Bannister Berkley 1975 D. B. Newton The Landgrabbers Popular Library 1975 D. B. Newton Trail of the Bear Popular Library 1975 D. B. Newton Broken Spur Berkley 1977 Dwight Bennett Stormy Range Doubleday & Co. 1951 Dwight Bennett Border Graze Doubleday & Co. 1953 Dwight Bennett The Avenger Permabooks 1956 Dwight Bennett Cherokee Outlet Doubleday & Co. 1961 Dwight Bennett Rebel Trail Doubleday & Co. 1963 Dwight Bennett Crooked River Canyon Doubleday & Co. 1966 Dwight Bennett Legend in the Dust Doubleday & Co. 1970 Dwight Bennett The Big Land Doubleday & Co. 1972 Dwight Bennett The Guns of Ellsworth Doubleday & Co. 1973 Dwight Bennett Hangman's Knot Doubleday & Co. 1975 Dwight Bennett The Cheyenne Encounter Doubleday & Co. 1976 Dwight Bennett West of Railhead Doubleday and Co. 1977 Dwight Bennett The Texans Doubleday & Co. 1979 Dwight Bennett Disaster Creek Doubleday & Co. 1981 Ford Logan Fire in the Desert Ballantine Books 1954 Dan Temple Bullet Lease Popular Library 1957 Dan Temple Gun and Star Monarch Books 1964 Clement Hardin Hellbent For a Hangrope Ace Books 1954 Clement Hardin Cross Me in Gunsmoke Ace Books 1957 Clement Hardin Longhorn Law Ace Books 1957 Clement Hardin The Lurking Gun Ace Books 1961 Clement Hardin Outcast of Ute Bend Ace Books 1965 Clement Hardin The Ruthless Breed Ace Books 1966 Clement Hardin The Oxbow Deed Ace Books 1967 Clement Hardin The Paxman Feud Ace Books 1967 Clement Hardin Ambush Reckoning Ace Books 1968 Clement Hardin Sheriff of Sentinel Ace Books 1969 Clement Hardin Colt Wages Ace Books 1970 Clement Hardin Stage Line to Rincon Ace Books 1971 Clement Hardin The Badge Shooters Ace Books 1975 Hank Mitchum Dodge City: Stagecoach Station #1 Bantam Books 1982 Hank Mitchum Laredo: Stagecoach Station #2 Bantam Books 1982 Hank Mitchum Tombstone: Stagecoach Station #4 Bantam Books 1983 Hank Mitchum Santa Fe: Stagecoach Station #6 Bantam Books 1983 Hank Mitchum Deadwood: Stagecoach Station #11 Bantam Books 1984 Hank Mitchum Carson City: Stagecoach Station #13 Bantam Books 1984 Hank Mitchum Leadville: Stagecoach Station #20 Bantam Books 1985 Hank Mitchum Tulsa: Stagecoach Station #26 Bantam Books 1986

Short stories As "D. B. Newton" "Swing High, Nester!", Lariat Story (March 1949) "White Thunder of the Cherokees", Frontier Stories, (Summer 1949) "Three Guns and a Girl", Best Western (September 1951) "Rogue's Rendezvous", Rio Kid Western (January 1952) "Stage Coach West", Frontier Stories (Spring 1952) "The Slack Rein", Western Short Stories (June 1952) "The Kid Who Wouldn't Talk", Best Western, (July 1952) "The Kid That Satan Sent", Western Novels and Short Stories (April 1953) "Mule Tracks", Bad Men and Good (WWA anthology), Dodd, Mead, (1953) "Chain of Command", With Guidons Flying (WWA anthology), edited by Charles N. Heckelmann. Doubleday & Co., (1970) "The Storm Riders", Zane Grey Western (October 1970)

As "Dwight Bennett" "Trail's End at the Hangtree", Five Western Novels (October 1951)

As "Jackson Cole" "The Barbed Barrier", Texas Rangers (July 1953)

Teleplays Cimarron City "Kid on a Calico Horse". Teleplay by Dwight Newton and Thomas Thompson. Story by E. Jack Neuman (April 28, 1958) Colt .45 "Under False Pretenses". Teleplay by Dwight Newton. Story by Elmer Kelton (October 3, 1959) Overland Trail "Daughter of the Sioux". Teleplay by Dwight Newton (January 6, 1960) Shotgun Slade "Mesa of Missing Men". Teleplay by Dwight Newton (June 19, 1959) "Barbed Wire". Teleplay by Frank Bonham and Dwight Newton (July 17, 1959) "Major Trouble". Teleplay by Bob Mitchell and Dwight Newton. Story by Ralph Conger (July 30, 1959) "Bob Ford". Teleplay by Tod Ballard and Dwight Newton (August 24, 1959) Tales of Wells Fargo "The Hasty Gun". Teleplay by Dwight Newton (January 28, 1957) "Shotgun Messenger". Teleplay by Dwight Newton and Sloan Nibley (February 26, 1957) "Jesse James". Teleplay by Dwight Newton (March 5, 1957) "Ride With a Killer". Teleplay by Verne Athanas and Dwight Newton (March 19, 1957) "Fort Massacre". Teleplay by Dwight Newton and David Chandler. Story by David Chandler (April 8, 1957) "Luke Frazer". Teleplay by Dwight Newton. Story by T. T. Flynn (July 9, 1958) "The Branding Iron". Teleplay by A. I. Bezzerides and Dwight Newton (August 6, 1958) "Wild Cargo". Teleplay by Dwight Newton. Story by Steve Fisher (August 14, 1958) "The House I Enter". Teleplay by Dwight Newton. Story by William F. Leicester (October 31, 1958) "The Last Stand". Teleplay by Dwight Newton. Story by John Cunningham (November 21, 1958) "Tall Texan". Teleplay by D. D. Beauchamp, Mary Beauchamp and Dwight Newton (January 13, 1959) "Kid Curry". Teleplay by D. D. Beauchamp and Dwight Newton. Story by D. D. Beauchamp (March 6, 1959) "The Daltons". Teleplay by Dwight Newton (April 9, 1959) "The Dynamite Kid". Teleplay by Dwight Newton (September 1, 1959) "Frightened Witness". Teleplay by Dwight Newton and Barney Slater. Story by Dwight Newton (October 27, 1960) Wagon Train "The Jesse Cowan Story". Story and teleplay by Dwight Newton (October 28, 1957) "The Bill Tawnee Story". Teleplay by Rik Vollaerts and Dwight Newton. Story by Rik Vollaerts (February 12, 1958) Whiplash "Convict Town". By Dwight Newton (September 17, 1960)

Legacy Nineteen linear feet of the author's papers are held at the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives.

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