Frederick Schiller Faust wasn't a big name in this genre, but his pen name of Max Brand was
I bracket those 
two names advisedly: Cooper's Leatherstocking tales are set largely in the 1750s
, ..... Max Brand, nom de plume of the quite splendidly named Frederick Schiller 
Faust, had published Western tales all through the 1920s and 30s... [DOC] [TLE] The Private Library: June 2009 [PAR] Jun 30, 2009 ... Key to English Place Names ....