William H. Forbis

William H. Forbis is an American author, and the writer of "The Cowboys", the first book in the Time-Life series "The Old West".

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THE AUTHOR: William H. Forbis was born in cowboy country and has returned there. A native of Missoula, Montana, he graduated from the University of Montana with a degree in journalism and left for Central America, where he was to spend more than a decade as a reporter, editor and correspondent. He moved to New York in 1951 to become a writer for TIME and then a senior editor in charge of art, theater, cinema and education. Since his retirement in 1969, he has been dividing his time between freelance writing and teaching at the University of Montana. Before undertaking The Cowboys, he completed and edited the late John Gunther's Inside Australia, published in 1972.