Terry c. johnston obituary billings mt
March 25, 2003(2003-03-25) (aged 56) Billings, Montana, U.S. · Central State....
Western author Terry C. Johnston died Sunday morning of cancer.
Terry C. Johnston
American Western fiction author
Terry C. Johnston | |
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Born | ()January 1, Arkansas City, Kansas, U.S. |
Died | March 25, () (aged56) Billings, Montana, U.S. |
Almamater | Central State University |
Genre | Western fiction |
Terry Conrad Johnston[1] (1 January – 25 March ) was an American Western fiction author who wrote 31 novels and had more than 10 million books in print.[2]
Background
He was born in Arkansas City, Kansas.[3] His parents were a junior college president and a teacher.
He gained a BA from Central State University in Edmond, Oklahoma.[2] As a young man, he traveled and worked various jobs, all the while becoming a student of the Old West. Johnston published his first novel, Carry the Wind, in after it had been rejected by 29 publishers;[2] it won the Western Writers of America's Medicine Pipe Bearer's Award.[3] Johnston wrote his first novel while he worked as a leas