Joseph Paul Summers Brown, born in Nogales, Arizona, 1930. fifth generation Arizona and Sonora, Mexico cattleman. Graduated Saint Michaels High School, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1948. Graduated Notre Dame University, journalism, 1952. Raised on High Lonesome Ranch, Sanders, Arizona. General assignment reporter on two Arizona weekly newspapers one year, two years on the El Paso Herald-Post. Commissioned second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps, 1955. Heavy machine gun platoon commander Weapons Company, Second Battalion Third Marines,South Camp Fuji, Japan, 1955-1956. Coached Third Marine Division boxing team. Transferred to Marine Corps Cold Weather Training Center, Pickle Meadows, California, as instructor guide, 1956. Member of the first five man team to teach military rock climbing and animal packing in the Marine Corps Mountain Leadership School at CWTC.
Released from active duty,1958. Bought cattle and horses in Chihuahua, Sonora, Baja California, Coahuila, and Jalisco. Worked on cowboy crew caring for 6,000 cattle on Imperial Valley, California pasture. Moved to Navojoa, Sonora in 1960 to buy cattle for American rodeo. Rode horseshoe trails of the Sierra Madre Occidental from Chinipas, Chihuahua to Sahuaripa, Sonora. Ranched and bought cattle on the coastal desert near the Sea of Cortez from southern Sonora to Arizona border. Built the first dipping vat for the eradication of the fever tick in the municipality of Navojoa. Among founders of the Navojoa charter of the Mexican National Charro Association. Champion amateur boxer at Saint Michaels, Notre Dame, and Marine Corps. Fought professionally in Mexico,1963 and 1964. In Mexico began to write stories that became first novel, Jim Kane, in 1960. 1968,helped gather Art Linkletter's Lida, Nevada ranch. 1970, Jim Kane published by Dial Press, N.Y. The Outfit, based on Lida experience published by Dial. 1974, Cattle Ranched at Snowflake, Arizona. 1977-2003, worked in Tucson as a member of the Teamsters Union Movie Wranglers, provided cattle,horses, stunts, acted in bit parts in movie business. National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City keeps a collection of J.P.S. Brown's books. Received the Will James Society's Big Enough Award for literary achievemnt in the cowboy tradition,1999. Received Arizona Historical Society's Lawrence Clark Powell Award for lifetime achievement in Southwestern letters, 2003. Jim Kane made into the movie Pocket Money with Paul Newman and Lee Marvin, 1972. Other fiction: The Forests of the Night, Dial, 1974; Steeldust, Walker, 1986; Keep the Devil Waiting, Bantam, 1992; The Arizona Saga,(four books:) The Blooded Stock, The Horseman, Ladino, Native Born, Bantam and Doubleday,1989-1994; The Cinnamon Colt, Doubleday, 1996; novel The World in Pancho's Eye published by UNM Press, October 2007;Jim Kane novel about Mexican border strife titled Wolves At Our Door,completed,May 2006, published by UNM Press April, 2008.
