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This is Lee Habib, and this is our American Stories.

James Warner Bella's Pulp Fiction Writ writings on Cavalry and Indians were published

in paperbacks or serialized in the Saturday evening post. His short stories were turned into

films by John Ford, and his screenplays became movie masterpieces. Here to tell another Hollywood

Goes to War story is Roger McGrath.

McGrath is the author of Gunfighters, Highwayman, and Vigilantes,

Violence on the Frontier. He's a U.S. Marine and a former history professor at UCLA.

Dr. McGrath has appeared on numerous History Channel documentaries,

and he's a regular contributor here at Our American Stories.

Take it away, McGrath.

The great movies, actors, directors, and writers of the 1930s, 40s, and 50s,

produced what has since been called the Golden Era of Hollywood.

Scripts came from great novels and works of history

and from compelling stories serialized in magazines.

One of those who contributed mightily to the Golden Era,

in particular to the movies of John Ford was the writer James

Warner Bella. Ford Apache, she wore a yellow ribbon, Rio Grande, and others came from

the pen of Bella. Its stories were powerful and poignant and filled with men of character

and courage. He himself was a veteran not only of World War I, but also World War II.

Bella is born in New York City in 1890, to an upper middle-class family that can trace its roots back to the colonial era.

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