Peter Dawson is the pen name of Jonathan Hurff Glidden (1907–1957), an American writer of westerns born in Kewanee, Illinois. His first novel, The Crimson Horseshoe, won the Dodd, Mead prize for the best western of 1941. He published sixteen novels, among them Trail Boss and Royal Gorge, and more than a hundred short novels and stories for the pulp and slick magazines, many of them collected after his death in volumes such as Rattlesnake Mesa and Ghost Brand of the Wishbones.
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Peter Dawson is the pen name of Jonathan Hurff Glidden (1907–1957), an American writer of westerns born in Kewanee, Illinois. His first novel, The Crimson Horseshoe, won the Dodd, Mead prize for the best western of 1941. He published sixteen novels, among them Trail Boss and Royal Gorge, and more than a hundred short novels and stories for the pulp and slick magazines, many of them collected after his death in volumes such as Rattlesnake Mesa and Ghost Brand of the Wishbones.