Summary
Spur Award-winning author. They had crossed against an angry ocean to stake their claim. Borg Virkstrom and his fellow Norwegian farmers saw freedom's beacon shining from the untamed prairies near a Kansas town called Liberty. But in the cattle barons' kingdom, sod-busters seldom got a second chance. They might get a warning … before being plowed under themselves. It didn't help matters that there was a power-hungry politico just waiting to ingnite a bloody range war. Now Borg had all he could do to dodge the price that had been tacked on his head. T. V. Olsen began writing his first Western novel while still in high school, and following a post-college rewrite, it was published. His writing earned him wide acclaim, and some of his work was optioned for film and starred such greats as Gregory Peck and Candice Bergen. A T. V. Olsen novel is guaranteed to provide compelling drama, memorable characters, and historical accuracy.
Theodore V. Olsen was born in Rhinelander, Wisconsin on April 25, 1932. He graduated from Rhinelander High School in 1950 and received his B. S. from the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point in 1955. He had planned on being a comic strip artist but eventually grew more interested in writing than in art.
In 1955, after many rewrites, Olsen sold his first book, Valley of the Hunted to Ace Books. It was published in 1956 as Haven of the Hunted. Olsen has written other genres besides westerns, including adventure, gothic, romance and historical. He has written under various pen names as well, such as Cass Willoughby, Christopher Storm and Joshua Stark. Olsen's book The Stalking Moon was made into a movie in 1968 and his novel Arrow in the Sun became the movie Soldier Blue in 1970. In 1992 he won the Golden Spur Award for Golden Chance.
Olsen died July 13, 1993 at his home in Wisconsin at the age of 61.
(Bowker Author Biography)
