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Smoky Valley
Paperback original
Author Donald Hamilton
Cover artist Verne Tossey
Language English
GenreWestern
PublisherDell
Publication date
1955
Publication place United States
Media typePrint ( paperback)

Smoky Valley is a western novel by Donald Hamilton.

Plot summary

John Parrish does not run, even when the local land baron tries to burn him out of his home. The former soldier has to stay alive long enough to outwit his enemies.

Film adaptation

Filmed as The Violent Men in 1955 starring Glenn Ford, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson

Publication history

  • 1953, USA, Collier's, 12/11/1953, 12/25/1953, 1/8/1954, 1/22/1954, serial (literature)
  • 1954, USA, Dell, Dell First Edition #18, paperback, reissued many times
  • 1954, UK, Allan Wingate, as Rough Company, hardcover
  • 1985, UK, Ulverscroft, ISBN  0-7089-1267-2, large print edition, hardcover