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Ridgwell Cullum

{{short description|British writer}}

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| birth_name = Sidney Groves Burghard

| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1867|08|13}}

| birth_place = London, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1943|11|03|1867|08|13}}

| death_place = Torquay, Devon, England

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Ridgwell Cullum (pseudonym of Sidney Groves Burghard; 13 August 1867 – 3 November 1943) was a British writer who wrote a large number of adventure novels over more than 30 years, usually set in sparsely populated regions of the United States or Canada.

Biography

Sidney Groves Burghard was born in London on 13 August 1867.{{Cite web |url=https://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cullum_ridgwell |title=Cullum, Ridgwell |website=The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction |access-date=2024-02-19}} He left home aged 17 to join a gold rush in the Transvaal in South Africa, where he became involved in the conflict between British and Boer settlers. Later he travelled to the scene of another gold rush in Yukon in north-west Canada and spent a number of years cattle-ranching in Montana, United States.

His first novel The Devil's Keg, set in Alberta, Canada, was published in 1903. After its success he settled in Britain and became a full-time writer. Several of his novels were made into films.

He died in Torquay on 3 November 1943.{{Cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/CS17251688/TTDA |title=Deaths |newspaper=The Times |publication-place=London |issue=49697 |page=1 |date=1943-11-08 |access-date=2024-02-19 |via=The Times Digital Archive}}

Works

  • The Devil's Keg (US: [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14482 The Story of the Foss River Ranch]) (1903)
  • The Hound from the North (1904) (also in [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29695 Project Gutenberg])
  • In the Brooding Wild (1905) (Also at [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31607 Project Gutenberg])
  • The Night Riders (1906) – made into a film (1920) (Also at [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29479 Project Gutenberg])
  • The Watchers of the Plains (1908) (Also on [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27521 Project Gutenberg].)
  • The Compact (1909)
  • The Sheriff of Dyke Hole (1909)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36522 The Trail of the Axe] (1910) – made into a film (1922), featuring Dustin Farnum and George Fisher
  • The One-Way Trail (1911) (Also on [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30113 Project Gutenberg])
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29638 The Twins of Suffering Creek] (1912) – made into two films, Twins of Suffering Creek (1920), featuring William Russell, and The Man Who Won (1923), directed by William A. Wellman and featuring Dustin Farnum, Jacqueline Gadsden and Lloyd Whitlock
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29628 The Golden Woman] (1913)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35776 The Way of the Strong] (1914) – made into a film (1919), directed by Edwin Carewe and featuring Anna Q. Nilsson, Joe King and Harry Northrup
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29958 The Law-Breakers] (1914)
  • The Son of his Father (1915) – made into a film (1917) directed by Victor Schertzinger and featuring Charles Ray, Vola Vale and Robert McKim (Also at [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36170 Project Gutenberg])
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36836 The Men Who Wrought] (1916)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19064 The Triumph of John Kars] (1917)
  • The Purchase Price (US: [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19371 The Forfeit]) (1917) – made into a film The Forfeit (1919), directed by Frank Powell and featuring House Peters Sr.
  • The Law of the Gun (1918)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/23662 The Heart of Unaga] (1920)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14756 The Man in the Twilight] (1922)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59113 The Luck of the Kid] (1923)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62533 The Saint of the Speedway] (1924)
  • [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74048 The Riddle of Three-Way Creek] (1925)
  • The Candy Man (US: Child Of The North) (1926)
  • The Wolf Pack (1927)
  • The Mystery of the Barren Lands (1928)
  • The Tiger of Cloud River (1929)
  • The Treasure of Big Waters (1930)
  • The Bull Moose (1931)
  • Sheets in the Wind (1932)
  • The Flaming Wildness (1934)
  • The Vampire of N'Gobi (1935)
  • One Who Kills (1938)

References

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External links

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  • {{Librivox author |id=2889}}
  • {{IMDb name|0191643}}
  • [https://www.fantasticfiction.com/c/ridgwell-cullum/ Fantastic Fiction entry (biography and bibliography)]

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Category:1867 births

Category:1943 deaths

Category:Western (genre) writers

Category:20th-century British novelists