A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm

Born in Ontario, Arthur Murray Chisholm became a Canadian author closely associated with Western and adventure fiction. Reference sources describe him as not only a novelist and short-story writer, but also a lawyer, judge, and coroner.

He was especially prolific in short fiction: Wikisource notes that more than a hundred of his western and adventure stories appeared in Popular Magazine. That steady magazine presence helped build his reputation with readers who liked action, wilderness settings, and frontier drama.

Chisholm is also linked with British Columbia, where biographical summaries say he settled in Windermere and held several public roles there. His career outside literature gives his work an interesting edge: he wrote imagined adventures while also living a life rooted in law, government service, and the realities of the Canadian West.