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Louis Lamour was a prolific Western Novelist. Some of his books were adapted for the screen such as Hondo ( I believe a John Wayne role). Mr. Lamour also ( and was not too proud of it) created and wrote some novels on the once-popular character Hopalong Cassidy- incuding one Hopalong Cassidy-Trouble Shooter. The phrase Trouble shooter was applied to maintenance men and similar jobs in the twenties- such as ( radio trouble-shooters guide- from l928) almost certainly it was not used in the Old West! Lawman- sure. gunpoke, marksman, of course, but Trouble-shooter is a twenties term intended to soften the repair or damage-control image.

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