Gordon D. Shirreffs


Gordon Donald Shirreffs was an American author, known mostly for writing Western and juvenile (young adult) novels. He also wrote a teleplay. Two of his novels, Judas Gun and Rio Bravo, were made into the films A Long Ride from Hell and Oregon Passage respectively. One of his short stories, "Silent Reckoning", became the film The Lonesome Trail.

Biography

Gordon Shirreffs was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1914, soon after his mother emigrated from Scotland. When his National Guard unit was activated in 1940 Shirreffs served in World War II where he was stationed in Alaska's Aleutian Islands as part of the Pacific Theater. Following the war he attended Northwestern University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Shirreffs married Alice Johanna Gutwein on February 7, 1941 in El Paso, TX. They had two children, a daughter Carole and a son Brian, who died June 22, 2015, Long Beach, CA.
He lived in Granada Hills, San Fernando Valley, CA from 1952 until his death in 1996.
For a time in the 1950s, Shirreffs operated a hobby shop in Granada Hills. In keeping with his Scottish roots, he was a member of one or more bagpipe bands in Burbank and San Fernando, CA.

Novels

Gunswift Arizona Justice Rio Bravo Code of the Gun Range Rebel Top Gun Ambush on the Mesa Fort Vengeance Bugles on the Prairie Son of the Thunder People Massacre Creek Shadow Valley Last Train from Gunhill The Brave Rifles Trail's End Roanoke Raiders The Lonely Gun Renegade Lawman Fort Suicide Shadow of a Gunman The Rebel Trumpet Apache Butte They Met Danger The Mosquito Fleet The Proud Gun Ride a Lone Trail The Gray Sea Raiders Powder Boy of the Monitor The Valiant Bugles The Border Guidon Hangin' Pards Tumbleweed Trigger Action Front! Voice of the Gun Rio Desperado The Haunted Treasure of the Espectros The Cold Seas Beyond Slaughter at Broken Bow Quicktrigger The Nevada Gun Gunslingers Three Mystery of Lost Canyon Judas Gun The Hostile Beaches Last Man Alive Too Tough to Die The Hidden Rider of Dark Mountain Blood Justice The Secret of the Spanish Desert Now He is Legend The Lone Rifle The Enemy Seas Barranca The Bolo Battalion Southwest Drifter Torpedoes Away! The Godless Breed Five Graves to Boothill The Mystery of the Lost Cliff Dwelling The Killer Sea Showdown in Sonora Jack of Spades Mystery of the Haunted Mine The Manhunter Brasada Bowman's Kid Renegade's Trail Shootout Duel at Dodge City Cheyenne Vengeance The Apache Hunter The Marauders Rio Diablo Legend of the Damned Captain Cutlass Calgaich the Swordsman The Untamed Breed Bold Legend Glorieta Pass The Ghost Dancers Hell's Forty Acres Maximilian's Gold The Walking Sands
  • ''The Devil's Dance Floor''

Omnibus

Three from the West Blood Justice / Valiant Bugles Last Train from Gun Hill / Border Guidon Rio Diablo / Top Gun Shadow Valley / Fort Vengeance Showdown in Sonora / Manhunter Bowman's Kid / Renegade's Trail
  • ''Apache Hunter / Marauders''