Western (genre) writers

Ned Buntline

Edward Zane Carroll Judson Sr. (March 20, 1821 – July 16, 1886), known by his pen name Ned Buntline, was an American publisher, journalist, and writer.

Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 – July 21, 1938) was an American writer. His novel The Virginian, published in 1902, helped create the cowboy as a folk hero in the United States and built Wister's reputation as the "father of Western fiction.