(1869-1934) American cowboy, poet, essayist and fiction writer. Throughout his
life Rhodes worked at a variety of jobs, the longest being horse wrangling (rounding up, corralling or tending to horses, cattle, etc.), and thus gaining
experience in the
American West. Using this as a basis for a number of his works, his first printed piece, a poem, appeared in Land of Sunshine (a
Los Angeles magazine) in 1896. His works continued to be seen in
magazines such as the
Saturday Evening Post and his first
novel was published in 1910. Several years later he began
selling motion-
picture