1. The Searchers
2. The Searchers Book

Alan Le MayBorn( 1899-06-03)June 3, 1899DiedApril 27, 1964 (1964-04-27) (aged 64)OccupationWriter (novelist)NationalityPeriod20th centuryGenreWestern fictionAlan Brown Le May (June 3, 1899 – April 27, 1964) was an American novelist and writer.He is most remembered for two classic novels, The Searchers (1954) and The Unforgiven (1957). They were adapted into the (1956; starring and, and directed by ) and (1960; starring and, and directed by ).He also wrote or co-wrote the screenplays for (1940; directed by, and starring and ), (1942; directed by Cecil B. DeMille, and starring, Paulette Goddard and John Wayne, and (1952; directed by, and starring. He wrote the original source novel for (1945; produced by and starring Gary Cooper), as well as a score of other screenplays and an assortment of other novels and short stories.

Le May wrote and directed (1950) starring and and featuring. Le May also wrote and produced (but did not direct) (1951), also starring John Drew Barrymore. Contents.Biography He was born in to John and Maude Brown Le May. His father was a public school teacher and his maternal grandfather (Daniel L. Brown, Sr.) and uncle (Daniel L. Brown, Jr.) were both lawyers.

He first lived with his parents and uncle at his grandparents home at 3229 North Illinois Street in Indianapolis. He moved with his family, including his sister Elizabeth, to as a teenager in the 1910s.He attended in in 1916. In 1918 he registered for the draft in Aurora, and then enlisted and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. While attending the, where he graduated in 1922 with a Bachelor of Philosophy degree, he joined the Illinois National Guard.

Spanish Crossing (1998). Contains 14 short stories:.

'The Wolf Hunter' (1929). 'Just a Horse of Mine' (1930). 'Hell on wheels' (1934). 'Kindly Kick Out Bearer' (1930). 'The Biscuit Shooter' (1931).

'Guns Flame in Peaceful Valley'. 'And Him Long Gone' (1932). 'Saddle Bum' (1931). 'Delayed Action' (1931). 'Bronc Fighter's Girl' (1932).

'The Young Rush In' (1929). 'A Shot in the Dark'. 'Lost Dutchman O'Riley's Luck'. 'Spanish Crossing' (1933). The Bells of San Juan (2001). Contains 12 short stories:.

'The Little Kid' (1938). 'Lawman's debt' (1934). 'Gray rider'. 'Trail Driver's Luck' (1930).

'The Loan of a Gun' (1929). 'Eyes of doom' (1932). 'Tombstone's daughter'. 'Star on his heart' (1944).

'The Battle of Gunsmoke Lode' (1930). 'The Braver Thing' (1931). 'Sundown corral' (1938). 'The Bells of San Juan' (1927). West of Nowhere (2002). Contains 13 short stories:. 'Death rides the Trionte' (1937).

'Mules' (1931). 'The Killer in the Chute' (1932). 'Sentenced to Swing' (1929). 'The Fourth Man' (1926). 'The Fiddle in the Storm' (1933). 'Terlegraphy and the Bronc'. 'Gun Fight at Burnt Corral' (1934).

'A Horse for Sale' (1931). 'Pardon Me, Lady' (1932). 'Six-Gun graduate' (1931). 'Range Bred' (1933). 'West of Nowhere' (1939). Painted Rock (2004).

Contains 11 short stories:. 'Whack-Ear's Pup'.

'Strange Fellow'. 'Gunnies from Gehenna'. 'Hard-boiled'. 'Next door to hell'. 'Feud Fight' (1940).

'Thanks to a Girl in Love' (1932). 'Man with a Future' (1937). 'Old Thunder Pumper' (1930). 'The Nester's Girl' (1933).

'Fight at Painted Rock' (1939). Tonopah Range: Western Stories (2006).

Contains 6 short stories:. 'Tonopah Range'.

The Searchers

'One charge of powder' (1930). 'Blood moon'. 'Empty guns'. 'A Girl is Like a Colt' (1932).

'Dead Man's Ambush' (1944)Short stories Uncollected short stories. In (1956).

(1940), directed by. (1942), directed by. (1944), directed by. (1944), directed by.

Trailin' West (1944), directed by. (1945), directed. Uncredited. (1945), directed by and, uncredited, and. (1947), directed by. (1947), directed by. (1948), directed by.

The Searchers Book

(1949), directed by., AKA Thunder in the Dust (1950), directed by. (1950), directed by Alan Le May.

(1950), directed by. (1951), directed by., AKA I Dream of Jeanie (with the Light Brown Hair) (1952), directed by. (1952), directed by., AKA Angels Take Over, AKA Angels over Korea (1953), directed by. (1955), directed byReferences.