Walt Coburn

Walt Coburn
Born
Walter John Coburn

(1889-10-23)October 23, 1889
White Sulphur Springs, Montana Territory
DiedMay 1971(1971-05-00) (aged 81)
Prescott, Arizona
Cause of deathSuicide
OccupationAuthor
RelativesDorothy Coburn (Niece)
Military career
AllegianceUnited States
Service / branchArmy aviation corps
Years of serviceWorld War I

Walter John Coburn (October 23, 1889 – May 1971) was an American writer of Westerns. Coburn was born in White Sulphur Springs, Montana Territory, the son of Robert Coburn Senior, the founder of the noted Circle C Ranch located south of Malta.[1] The actress Dorothy Coburn is his niece.[2]

Coburn served in the Army aviation corps during the World War I era.[3] He later spent time as a cowboy and a surveyor, before becoming a full-time writer in the 1920s.

  1. ^ John D. Flanagan, "Coburn, Walt", in Twentieth Century Western Writers, edited by Geoff Sadler. St. James Press, 1991, ISBN 0-912289-98-8 , (pages 129-34)
  2. ^ D'Ambrosio, Brian (2019). Montana Entertainers: Famous and Almost Forgotten. Chicago: Arcadia Publishing Inc. pp. 35–37. ISBN 9781439667330. OCLC 1107577282.
  3. ^ "Walter Coburn, Writer of "Westerns" Arrives Here", Tucson Daily Citizen, Tucson, Arizona, volume LXV, number 298, October 25, 1934, page 6.