Yore, Clem (Clement), 1875-1936

Clement Yore was born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1875. At the age of twelve, he ran away from home first traveling to Kansas then to western Nebraska. In 1890 he joined the Texas Rangers at El Paso, Tex. Yore worked as a cowpuncher, packer, stage driver and prospector. He also studied law at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. and practiced law for a year before following the Klondike Gold Rush as a journalist. Yore fought in the Spanish-American War, and later worked for Randolph Hearst in San Francisco and in Chicago as the city editor for the Chicago American. After seven years he left the newspaper business to concentrate on writing and publishing. He married Alberta McAuley Plonke (b.1879: Berlin, Wis.) in 1915; they relocated to Estes Park, Colo. Yore wrote 20 novels, two books of verse, over 600 short stories and 300 poems. He died at home in Estes Park on Oct. 24, 1936.

From the description of Clement Yore papers, 1893-1971 [manuscript]. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 48890022

American author.

From the guide to the Clem Yore letter, 1929, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)

Yore was an important writer of Western fiction.

From the guide to the Clement Yore letters, 1922-1936, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)