Autor: Alan Le May

Alan Le May was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and attended Stetson University in De Land, Florida in 1916. In 1918 he registered for the World War I draft in Aurora, and then enlisted and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. While attending the University of Chicago, where he graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree, he joined the Illinois National Guard. He was promoted to First Lieutenant Field Artillery for the Illinois National Guard in 1923. He published his first novel,  Painted Ponies, in 1927 (about the Cheyenne and the U. S. Cavalry horse soldiers).