Question: Which Texas politician, newspaper editor, and writer published over 30 Western fiction novels, two of which were adapted into Hollywood movies?
Answer: Jesse Edward Grinstead. Born in 1866 in Owensboro, Kentucky, he moved to Kerrville around the turn of the century and purchased a local newspaper. He was elected the city’s mayor in 1903 and then to the Texas House of Representatives in 1906. The 1927 silent film Tumbling River was based on his novel, The Scourge of the Little C.