Hugh Pendexter
| Hugh Pendexter | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1875 |
| Died | 1940 |
| Occupation | novelist, screenwriter |
| Period | 1907 - 1934 |
Hugh Pendexter (born 1875) was an American journalist, novelist, screenwriter. Pendexter began his career as a humorous writer; some of this early work was anthologised in Mark Twain's book, Library of Humor and Wit.[1] Pendexter's main body of fiction consisted of historical novels and Westerns for such publications as Adventure and Argosy. [2] Pendexter was known for his detailed research when writing fiction; his stories were "often accompanied with extensive reading lists of the books that were used in writing the story".[3] Pendexter's novel, Kings of the Missouri, about fur trading and the founding of St. Louis, is regarded by some critics as his best work.[4]
For much of his life, Pendexter lived in Norway, Maine.[4] Pendexter was a friend of the writer Talbot Mundy.[5]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Tiberius Smith (1907)
- The young gem-hunters; or, the mystery of the haunted camp (1911)
- The young timber-cruisers; or, Fighting the spruce pirates (1911)
- The young fishermen (1912)
- The young woodsmen (1912)
- The young sea-merchants (1913)
- The young trappers (1913)
- The young loggers; or, the gray axeman of Mt. Crow (1917)
- Gentlemen of the North (1920)
- Red belts (1920)
- Kings of the Missouri (1921)
- A Virginia scout (1922)
- Pay gravel (1923)
- Old Misery (1924)
- The wife-ship woman (1925)
- Harry Idaho (1926)
- The red road; a romance of Braddock's defeat (1927)
- Bird of Freedom (1928)
- The gate through the mountain (1929)
- The border breed (1933)
- The fighting years (1933)
- The scarlet years (1933)
- The blazing West (1934)
- Vigilante of Alder Gulch (1955)
[edit] Movies
- A Daughter of the Wolf (1919)
- Story; Black and white silent film
- Wolf Law (1922)
- Story; Black and white silent film
[edit] Notes
- ^ Mark Twain's Library of Humor and Wit, Volume 3. Harper & brothers, 1906 (p.222).
- ^ [1] Hugh Pendexter at FictionMags Index
- ^ "Forgotten Giant: Hoffman’s Adventure" by Richard Bleiler. Purple Prose Magazine, November 1998, p. 3-12.
- ^ a b "Pendexter, Hugh" by Mike Stotter, in Twentieth Century Western Writers, edited by Geoff Sadler. Chicago and London, St. James Press, 1991, ISBN 0912289988 , pp. 537-9.
- ^ Talbot Mundy, messenger of destiny. by Donald M. Grant. D.M. Grant, 1983 ISBN 0937986461, (p.139).
