found: Bonham, Frank. Mission Creek, 2011:ECIP t.p. (Frank Bonham) data view (Frank Bonham's first Western, Lost Stage Valley (1948), was purchased as the basis for the motion picture, Stage to Tucson (Columbia, 1951). He was highly knowledgeable in the technical aspects of transportation and communication in the 19th-Century American West. In introducing these backgrounds into his narratives, especially when combined with his firm grasp of idiomatic Spanish spoken by many of his Mexican characters, the historical sense of the period is always very much in the forefront of his novels)
