Paul M. Bryan (1872 December 13 - 1944 August 4) worked with the U. S. Geological Survey in the Southwest in the early 1910s before becoming a screenwriter in New York and Los Angeles. This manuscript is a story Paul M. Bryan worked on from 1920-circa 1942 entitled The Truth About Pocahontas: A Love Story. Bryan submitted the story to several motion picture companies, but it was never used. Paul M. Bryan was the father of Bruce Bryan, long-time editor of Masterkey and Director Emeritus of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.

Paul M. Bryan was born on 1872 December 13 in Sylvania, Georgia. He worked as a clerk with the United States Land Office in 1910, and lived in Washington, D. C., with his wife Ethel and sons Leslie B. (later known as Bruce) and Hughes. Bryan got work with the U. S. Geological Survey, and the family moved west. The Bryans lived in Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico, sometimes on American Indian Reservations. In the 1910s the family moved to Los Angeles, California and Bryan started writing scenarios and screenplays for the motion picture industry. Paul M. Bryan wrote at least 13 films and was the father of Bruce Bryan, long-time editor of Masterkey and Director Emeritus of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles.

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