Eugene M. Rhodes

(1869-1934) born at Tecumseh, Johnson County, lived at Beatrice. Author, farmer, considered a notable Western novelist, he published almost a dozen books about life in the Southwest, emphasizing a romantic past, several of which were serialized in Saturday Evening Post from 1907 to 1926, and more than 30 short stories, nearly 50 essays, and nearly 50 poems. Consult New York Times obituary, June 28, 1934, p. 25 and American National Biography, Vol 18 (1999) 398-399 and Dictionary of Literary Biography: Twentieth Century American Western Writers, 3rd Series, Vol 256 (Gale, 2002) 248-261.

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