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John Milton Scanland
John Milton Scanland was born in Mississippi around 1843. Orphaned at a young age, he began his career at the Caddo Gazette in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he and his, brother Will...view moreJohn Milton Scanland was born in Mississippi around 1843. Orphaned at a young age, he began his career at the Caddo Gazette in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he and his, brother William Henry Scanland, who later rose to prominence as editor of the Bossier Banner, worked as apprentices. After serving in the Confederate army, Scanland edited the Bienville Messenger in Sparta, a small town near Shreveport, and by 1867 he was editor of the Natchitoches Spectator.
Scanland eventually found his way to California, where in the 1880s he edited the Ojai Valley View and the Santa Paula Graphic. Later he wrote articles, mostly on western topics, for various newspapers, including the L.A. Times, which hailed him as “a pioneer California journalist” when he died in 1935.
In 1908, in El Paso, Texas, Scanland published a biography of another western lawman only slightly less famous than Wyatt Earp—Pat Garrett, the New Mexican sheriff who killed Billy the Kid. Garrett, incidentally, had grown up on a plantation not far from Shreveport.view less
Books by John Milton Scanland
Life of Pat F. Garrett and the Taming of the Border Outlaw: A History of the “Gun Men” And Outlaws, and a Life-Story of the Greatest Sheriff of the Old Southwest