Allan R. Bosworth

Captain Allan Rucker Bosworth (ps Alamo Boyd, Jackson W. Horne) (October 29, 1901 – July 18, 1986) served in the United States Navy and United States Navy Reserve for some 38 years and authored a number of books as well as magazine articles.

Biography[]

He was born in San Angelo, Texas, worked as a journalist in San Francisco, and served in Japan as a Naval public relations officer. He travelled extensively in Europe and the Far East, and lived in Roanoke, Virginia for most of his life. He wrote several novels and short stories in the Western fiction genre. His son Allan Bernard Bosworth is also a writer.

Books[]

• Steel to the Sunset. Arcadia House. 1941.
• Wherever the Grass Grows. Doubleday, Doran and co. 1941.
• Full Crash Dive. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 1942.
• The Submarine Signaled... Murder!. Select Publications. 1942. (Paperback reprint of Full Crash Dive)
• Wherever the Grass Grows. The Sun Dial Press. 1942.
• A Cabin in the Hills; illus. by David Hendrickson. Doubleday. 1947.
• Hang and Rattle. Doubleday. 1947.
• San Francisco Murders, by Allan R. Bosworth [and others] and Joseph Henry Jackson, editor. Duell, Sloan and Pearce. 1947.
• Sancho of the Long, Long Horns. Illus. by Robert Frankenberg. Doubleday. 1947.
• Bury Me Not. Doubleday. 1948.
• A Cabin in the Hills. Hammond. 1950.
• Ladd of the Lone Star; illustrated by George A. Malik. Aladdin Books. 1952.
• Ginza Go, Papa-san [by] Allan R. Bosworth. Illustrations by Jack Matsuoka. Tuttle. 1955.
• Only the Brave, an Historical Novel. Popular Library. 1955.
• The Lovely World of Richi-san. Harper. 1958.
• The Crows of Edwina Hill. Harper. 1961.
• New Country. Harper. 1962.
• Ozona Country. Harper & Row. 1964.
• Storm Tide [by] Allan R. Bosworth. Harper & Row. 1965.
• America's Concentration Camps. W. W. Norton. 1967.
• My Love Affair with the Navy, by Allan R. Bosworth. Foreword by Ernest M. Eller. Nor. 1969.

References[]

• "Allan R(ucker) Bosworth". Contemporary Authors Online. Gale. 2003. Missing or empty |url= (help)
• The Lovely World of Richi-san. Harper. 1958.
• America's Concentration Camps. W. W. Norton. 1967.
• US Library of Congress (2006). "Library of Congress Online Catalog".
• "The FictionMags Index". Archived from the original on 30 August 2006. Retrieved 18 August 2006.
• "Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center entry on Allan R. Bosworth". Archived from the original on 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2008-07-24.
• My Love Affair with the Navy, by Allan R. Bosworth. Foreword by Ernest M. Eller. Nor. 1969.

External links[]

• Allan R. Bosworth at Library of Congress Authorities, with 21 catalog records (previous page of browse report under 'Bosworth, Allan R. (Allan Rucker), 1901–')
• Alamo Boyd at LC Authorities, no records, and one work at WorldCat: OCLC 4142680