Courtney Ryley Cooper (1886–1940)

Author of Annie Oakley

About the Author

Includes the names: courtneyrylcooper, Courtney Ryl Cooper, Cooper Courtney Ryley, Courtney Riley Cooper, Couetney Ryley Cooper

Image credit: Public domain This work is irrevocably in the public domain in the United States because it was first published in the United States without copyright notice prior to 1978.

Works by Courtney Ryley Cooper

Popular Recent

Annie Oakley (1927) 45 copies, 2 reviews

The Shocking Truth About Teen-age Vice (Designs in Scarlet) (1939) 20 copies, 1 review

Lions 'n' Tigers 'n' Everything (2004) 5 copies

Here's to crime (1937) 4 copies

The White Desert (1922) 4 copies

Under the Big Top (1923) 4 copies

Circus Day (1931) 4 copies

The Last Frontier (1923) 4 copies

Ten Thousand Public Enemies (1935) 3 copies

The Cross-Cut (1921) 3 copies

The Pioneers (1922) 3 copies

The Eagle's Eye: A True Story of the Imperial German Government's Spies and Intrigues in America from Facts Furnished by William J. Fly (1918) 2 copies

High Country: The Rockies Yesterday and Today (1926) 1 copy

With the Circus (1927) 1 copy

Go North, Young Man! (1929) 1 copy

Weary River [1929 film] (1929) — Story — 1 copy

Oklahoma: A Novel (1926) 1 copy

Work Explorer

Associated Works

Great True Stories of Crime, Mystery, and Detection (1965) — Contributor — 113 copies

To the Queen's Taste: The First Supplement to 101 Years Entertainment Consisting of the Best Stories Published in the First Four Years of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1946) — Contributor — 28 copies

Marriage: Short Stories of Married Life (1923) — Contributor — 3 copies

Best Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine (1944) — Contributor — 3 copies

Murder Mixture (1963) — Contributor — 2 copies

O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1930 (1930) — Contributor — 2 copies

The Amazing Mr. Means 1 copy

Memories of Buffalo Bill, by his Wife, in collaboration with Courtney Ryley Cooper (1919) 1 copy

Tagged

Main Associated

.backhall (1) America (2) American West (2) American Wilderness (1) Annie Oakley (3) biography (6) Biography & Autobiography (2) biography-memoir (2) Canada (1) children's (1) circus history (2) crime (3) E-Audiobook (1) fiction (2) history (1) isbn (2) Kindle (1) Legends of the West (2) mapback (1) natural history (1) nature (1) non-fiction (2) original (1) Railroads (1) Storage Unit (1) Strong Women Characters (2) to-read (3) western (2) wilderness (1) women (2)

Common Knowledge

Canonical name: Cooper, Courtney Ryley
Legal name: Cooper, Courtney Ryley
Birthdate: 1886-10-31
Date of death: 1940-09-29
Gender: male
Occupations: circus clown
circus general manager
journalist
circus press agent
marine (second lieutenant)
scriptwriter (show all 8)
propagandist (Department of Justice, USA)
chief publicist
Organizations: US Marine Corps
Cause of death: suicide (or was it?)
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Place of death: New York, New York, USA
Burial location: Crown Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colorado, USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

Members

Reviews

Featured Recent Thumbs

All Ratings
1
1
1

3 reviews

EricCostello 1,117 reviews

Designs in Scarlet by Courtney Ryley Cooper

This book has to be read to be believed. The author (who was a self-styled expert on crime, doubling in brass as a PR man for the Ringling Circus) goes into the evils and perils of marihuana (sic), jitterbugging, white slavery, roadhouses, bootlegging, civic corruption, and what have you. If you ever wondered if "Reefer Madness" was sui generis, here's your answer. The book is rife with possibly-true-but-names-are-changed details to lend that little bit of (alleged) authenticity to the work. show more Oh, yes, and the author's pal J. Edgar Hoover makes an appearance at the start of the book. It has it all. If you're looking for that certain something about paranoia, that is. show less

Aug 12, 2020

marshapetry 364 reviews

Annie Oakley by Courtney Ryley Cooper