Author:Joseph Alexander Altsheler

Joseph Alexander Altsheler
(1862–1919)

Joseph Alexander Altsheler

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 French and Indian War Series

• The Lords of the Wild, a story of the old New York border (1919)
• The Hunters of the Hills, a story of the great 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 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) (external scan)
• 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 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 Great West Series

• The Great Sioux Trail, a story of mountain and plain (1918) (external scan)
• 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) (external scan)
• The Sun of Saratoga, a romance of Burgoyne's surrender (1897)
• A Herald of the West, an American story of 1811–1815 (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 Changing Order (1907)
• The Recovery, a story of Kentucky (1908) (external scan)
• The Last of the Chiefs, a story of the great Sioux war (1909) (external scan)
• The Horsemen of the Plains, a story of the great Cheyenne war (1910) (external scan)
• The Quest of the Four, story of the Comanches and Buena Vista (1911)
• Apache Gold, a story of the strange Southwest (1913)
• The Golden Leaf, a story of the dark tobacco region (1907)

About Altsheler

• "Altsheler, Joseph Alexander," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920).
• "Altsheler, Joseph Alexander," in The Biographical Dictionary of America, (ed.) by Rossiter Johnson, Boston: American Biographical Society (1906)