T. V. Olsen

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Theodore V. Olsen (b., April 25, 1932, Rhinelander, Wisconsin, d., July 13, 1993, Rhinelander) was an American western fiction author. Olsen went to school in Rhinelander and began to write in high school. He began a western novel at that time. Olsen went to college in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. He finally finished his novel, Haven of the Hunted, and it was published in 1956. Olsen also began to sell western stories to pulp magazines at this time. Though Olsen would occasionally travel west, he lived his whole life in Rhinelander and would use exhaustive research to help accurately portray scenes of the west in his stories. He died in Rhinelander in 1993 and several works were published posthumously.

Much of T.V. Olsen's family still lives in the Rhinelander region. They own a 300 acre ranch with a century old farm house and dairy barn. The family immigrated from Norway in 1901. The Phillip Olsen family moved to California in the 1950s. Phillip Olsen's granddaughter, Katrina Olsen attends the University of California Berkeley.

Novels(selection): Haven of the Hunted (1956) Brand of the Star (1961) The Burning Sky (1971) A Man Named Yuma (1971) Blood Rage (1987)