Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Joseph Alexander Altsheler (born April 29, 1862 in Three Springs , Kentucky , † June 5, 1919 in New York City , New York ) was an American author .

Life

Altsheler was born in Three Springs , Kentucky . In 1885 he began working for the newspaper The Courier-Journal . As a Hawaiian correspondent, he worked from 1889 on the New York newspaper New York World . He later wrote children's stories for the newspaper.

Altsheler married Sarah Boles in 1888; they had a son together. During the First World War he and his family were in Germany . Altsheler fell seriously ill on the way home to America and died in New York City in 1919 .

Works

The Young Trailers Series

• The Young Trailers , a story of early Kentucky (1907)
• The Forest Runners , a story of the great war trail in early Kentucky (1908)
• The Keepers of the Trail , a story of the great woods (1916)
• The Eyes of the Woods , a story of the ancient wilderness (1917)
• The Free Rangers , a story of the early days along the Mississippi (1909)
• The Riflemen of the Ohio , a story of early days along "the beautiful river" (1910)
• The Scouts of the Valley , a story of Wyoming and the Chemung (1911)
• The Border Watch , a story of the great chief's last stand (1912)
• The Book of Man Kind (2007)

The French and Indian War Series (French and Indian Series)

• The Lords of the Wild , a story of the old New York border (1919)
• The Hunters of the Hills , a story of the French and Indian War (1916)
• The Shadow of the North , a story of old New York and a lost campaign (1917)
• The Sun of Quebec , a story of a great crisis (1919)
• The Rulers of the Lakes , a story of George and Champlain (1917)
• The Masters of the Peaks , a story of the great north woods (1918)

The Texan Series (Texan Series)

• The Texan Star , the story of a great fight for liberty (1912)
• The Texan Scouts , the story of the Alamo and Goliad (1913)
• The Texan Triumph , a romance of the San Jacinto campaign (1913)

The Civil War Series

• The Guns of Bull Run , a story of the Civil War's eve (1914)
• The Guns of Shiloh , a story of the great western campaign (1914)
• The Scouts of Stonewall , the story of the great valley campaign (1914)
• The Sword of Antietam , a story of the nation's crisis (1914)
• The Star of Gettysburg , a story of southern high tide (1915)
• The Rock of Chickamauga , a story of the western crisis (1915)
• The Shades of the Wilderness , a story of Lee's great stand (1916)
• The Tree of Appomattox , a story of the Civil War's close (1916)

The Great West Series

• The Great Sioux Trail , a story of mountain and plain (1918)
• The Lost Hunters , a story of wild man and great beasts (1918)

The World War I Series

• The Guns of Europe (1915)
• The Hosts of the Air , the story of a quest in the Great War (1915)
• The Forest of Swords , a story of Paris and the Marne (1915)

Other books

• The Hidden Mine (1896)
• A Knight of Philadelphia (1897)
• A Soldier of Manhattan , and his adventures at Ticonderoga and Quebec (1897)
• The Sun of Saratoga , a romance of Burgoyne's surrender (1897)
• A Herald of the West , an American story of 1811-1815 (1898)
• Kentucky Frontiersman , the adventures of Henry Ware, hunter and border fighter (1898)
• The Rainbow of Gold (1898)
• In Circling Camps , a romance of the Civil War (1900)
• In Hostile Red , a romance of the Monmouth campaign (1900)
• The Last Rebel (1900)
• The Wilderness Road ; a romance of St. Clair's defeat and Wayne's victory (1901)
• My Captive , a novel (1902)
• Before the Dawn , a story of the fall of Richmond (1903)
• Guthrie of the Times , a story of success (1904)
• The Candidate , a Political Romance (1905)
• The Recovery , a story of Kentucky (1908)
• The Last of the Chiefs , a story of the great Sioux war (1909)
• The Horsemen of the Plains , a story of the great Cheyenne war (1910)
• The Quest of the Four , story of the Comanches and Buena Vista (1911)
• Apache Gold , a story of the strange Southwest (1913)
• At the Twelfth Hour: Selected Short Stories of Josef A. Altsheler , (1895-1919)