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Samuel Swartwout. Samuel Swartwout (November 17, 1783 – November 21, 1856) was an American soldier, merchant, speculator, and politician. He is best known for his role in the Swartwout-Hoyt scandal, in which he was alleged to have embezzled $1,222,705.09 ($35 million in 2023) during his tenure as Collector of the Port of New York.
Oct 9, 2014 · Author Miles Swarthout’s The Last Shootist (Forge Books, $24.99), a much-anticipated sequel to his father Glendon Swarthout’s best-selling novel The Shootist (Doubleday, 1975) is an excellent Western novel that seamlessly picks up the complex characters and transitioning West of El Paso, Texas, that made the elder Swarthout’s original so popular.
Samuel Swartwout. SWARTWOUT, SAMUEL (1783-1856). Samuel Swartwout, land speculator and fund-raiser for the Texas Revolution, was one of the seven children of Abraham and Maria (North) Swartwout. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1783. He and his brother John were closely associated with Aaron Burr at the time of Burr's duel with ...
Jan 31, 2022 · Updated: January 31, 2022. Swartwout, Samuel (1783–1856). Samuel Swartwout, land speculator and fund-raiser for the Texas Revolution, one of seven children of Abraham and Maria (North) Swartwout, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York, on November 17, 1783. He and his brother John were closely associated with Aaron Burr at the time of Burr's duel ...
Oct 2, 2015 · Miles Swarthout’s first western novel, which was based on one of his father’s Saturday Evening Post short stories, The Sergeant’s Lady (Forge Books, 2003), won a Spur Award for Best First Novel.
- Miles Swarthout
A fine Western novel. The Homesman is a splendid Western novel. Glendon Swarthout wrote four Western tales (that I know of), all made into movies, and with great Western stars too. The first was a post-Custer story, 7th Cavalry, which Columbia made into a fun Randolph Scott oater in 1956. In 1959 Swarthout’s novel of the previous year They ...
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Glendon Fred Swarthout (April 8, 1918 – September 23, 1992) was an American writer and novelist. [1] Several of his novels were made into films.
