Noel Loomis


Noel Loomis was an American writer, principally of western, mystery and science-fiction.
Born and raised in the American West, he was sufficiently familiar with that territory to write a useful history of the Wells Fargo company.

Personal life

Noel Loomis was born Noel Miller Loomis on April 3, 1905, in the Oklahoma Territory town of Wakita, in the Cherokee Strip, and raised in Texico, in the New Mexico Territory, and in the West Texas town of Slaton.
In later life he lived in Decanso, in the San Diego, California, Back Country from 1956.
He married Dorothy Moore Green,
who was also a writer,
in 1945.
There is evidence that he had a first wife named Johnie or Jonie, who was the mother of his children.

Career and honors

He also worked variously as a printer, newspaperman and editor.

Writings

Selected works.

Fiction

  • Murder Goes to Press
  • City of Glass
  • Iron Men
  • Electron Eat Electron
  • Mr. Zytztz Goes to Mars
  • Turnover Time
  • Rim of the Caprock
  • The Buscadero
  • We Breathe For You
  • The Ultimate Planet
  • The Man With the Absolute Motion
  • Short Cut to Red River
  • ''Grandfather Out of the Past''

    Non-fiction

  • Pedro Vial and the Roads to Santa Fe, a description of Pedro Vial's exploratory expeditions
  • The Texan Santa Fe Pioneers
  • Wells Fargo, a history of the Wells Fargo company

    Media work

Source:

Editing