the Democratic candidate in the special election to succeed him. However, Wearin's Republican opponent, Earl Bass, won the election. After politics After the end of his active political career, Wearin raised purebred Angus cattle on the family estate, "Nishna Vale," near Hastings. Despite deterioration of his eyesight, he wrote books and articles, studied Iowa history, and worked in conservation. As a writer of westerns, his books include Before the Colors Fade, (1971), Along Our Country Road, (1985), I Remember Yesteryear (1974), Heinhold's First and Last Chance Saloon: Jack London's Rendezvous (1974) and Grass Grown Trails (1981). His writings were cited in his 1985 induction into the Cowboy Hall of Fame. Outside of that genre, he wrote many other books, including Century on an Iowa Farm (1959), I Remember Hastings (1965), Political Americana (1967), Clarence Arthur Ellsworth,: Artist of the Old West, 1885-1964, (1967) Country Roads to Washington (1976), and Rhymes of a Plain Countryman (1980). He died at Glenwood, Iowa and is buried at Malvern, Iowa. References 1903 births 1990 deaths Grinnell College alumni Democratic Party members of the Iowa House of Representatives Writers from Iowa People from Mills County, Iowa American cattlemen Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Iowa 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American politicians 20th-century American male writers Western (genre) writers