William Rheem Lighton (1866-1923), was an American author, editor, journalist and lawyer. He wrote a few novels, romances of rural life, westerns, and historical pieces. Many of his stories depicted "Billy Fortune, " a character based on his wife's cousin, a Wyoming homesteader. He and his wife built a farm in Arkansas which they named Happy Hollow Farm. In 1910 he wrote an article The Story of an Arkansas Farm which was published in the Saturday Evening Post. Due to it's popularity it was later expanded into a book, Happy Hollow Farm (1914). He edited Back to the Land magazine between 1910 and 1911. His other works include: Sons of Strength: Kansas (1899), Lewis and Clark (1901), The Ultimate Moment (1903) and Uncle Mac's Nebrasky (1904).