Jesse Edward Grinstead (1866–1948) was a Texas newspaper editor, publisher, politician and Western novelist. He edited the Kerrville Mountain Sun and published Grinstead’s Graphic before retiring from newspaper work in 1917 to write Western fiction. He drew on years spent in Texas and Oklahoma, and his stories appeared in Argosy and other popular magazines. Grinstead published more than thirty novels under names including J.E. Grinstead, Tex Janis, William Crump Rush and George Bowles. His novel The Scourge of the Little C inspired the Tom Mix film Tumbling River.