American novelist Harry Sinclair Drago (1888-1979 or 1980) was born in White Plains, New York. He published over a hundred books over his career, articles, short stories, screenplays and other publications. His earlier writings were based on fiction that generally took place in America’s West. Later in life he turned to writing non-fiction. He also wrote under several pseudonyms: Sinclair Drago, Grant Sinclair, Stewart Cross, Kirk Deming, Will Ermine, Peter Field, Bliss Lomax, and J. Wesley Putnam. His work received many awards; Buffalo Award for best western book of the year (1960) for Wild, Woolly, and Wicked, and the National Cowboy Hall of Fame Award (1970).