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Smith, Black John. Black John Smith was created by James B. Hendryx (Corporal Cameron Downey, Connie Morgan) and appeared in eighty-seven stories and story serials and nineteen novels and short story collections from 1931 to 1967, beginning with “Justice on Halfaday” (Short Stories, Aug. 25, 1931).

Black John Smith is the government official in charge of maintaining law and order in the wild and almost lawless town of Halfaday Creek, a rough-and-tumble community in the Yukon near the Alaskan border. Smith finds doing his job to be challenging, but he is clever and resolute and with the help of Corporal Downey and Smith’s personal assistant, Lynne Cushing, Smith controls the community, apprehends the worst of the criminals, and occasionally manages to enrich the government’s coffers.

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