Paul Wellman

American writer and historian (1895–1966)

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Lived 1895–1966, aged 71United States

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1895–1966
Aged 71
Known for
The Comancheros
1961

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Updated 2026-06-26

Paul Iselin Wellman was an American journalist, popular history and novel writer, and screenwriter, known for his books of the Wild West: Kansas, Oklahoma, Great Plains. Hollywood movies Cheyenne (1947) with Jane Wyman, The Walls of Jericho (1948) with Kirk Douglas, The Iron Mistress (1952) with Alan Ladd as Jim Bowie, Apache (1954) with Burt Lancaster and Jean Peters, Jubal (1956) with Ernest Borgnine and Rod Steiger, and The Comancheros (1961) with John Wayne and Lee Marvin are based on Wellman novels.