American writer, born at Atwood, MI, on the 1st of September 1877. He was educated at Rollins College, FL (1891–96), the Chicago College of Law (1896–97), and Kent College of Law, Chicago (1899–1900).
His tales of adventure include Pardners (1905); The Spoilers (1906, also dramatized); The Barrier (1907); The Silver Horde (1909); Going Some (1910, also dramatized); The Ne’er-do-Well (1911); The Net (1912); The Iron Trail (1913); The Auction Block (1914); Heart of the Sunset (1915); Rainbow’s End (1916); The Crimson Gardenia, and Other Tales of Adventure (1916); Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories (1917); Too Fat to Fight (1919); Oh, Shoot! (1921).
