Early in his career he also scripted episodes of the television series Death Valley Days and Gunsmoke.
Starting as a copyboy in 1945, he rose through the ranks as a police reporter, humor writer, and spent 27 years as a television columnist.
[1] Schindler's biography, Orrin Porter Rockwell: Man of God, Son of Thunder, is considered a definitive work on the Mormon stalwart and controversial lawman.
[3] Schindler produced an updated edition of West From Fort Bridger, an account of Western trails predating the Mormon exodus, with Utah historian Will Bagley.
This edition revised and updated the work of the late Western historians J. Roderic Korns and Dale Morgan.