The sheriff of Silver Bow

The author was the son of Arthur Briggs Braley, a municipal judge in Madison, WI who wrote on literary and political subjects and was a well-known Shakespeare scholar. Berton was born in Madison and graduated from UW-Madison in 1905. He began writing short stories, articles and verse commercially while still a boy, and continued throughout his life to be a free-lance journalist and writer, traveling widely. In a profile published in 1937, Braley was said to have written over 450 short stories and about 10,000 poems, in addition to numerous articles for the press.