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Andrew Dearborn
1836–1909
Best known for the frontier tale Scarred Eagle; or, Moorooine, the Sporting Fawn, this 19th-century writer worked under a pen name while building his career in Massachusetts. His fiction belongs to the lively world of American dime novels, full of action, pursuit, and borderland drama.
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Scarred Eagle; or, Moorooine, the sporting fawn. A story of lake and shore
by Andrew Dearborn
About the author
Born near Hebron, New York, on April 13, 1836, the writer behind the name Andrew Dearborn was actually Lewis J. Gardner. According to Northern Illinois University's House of Beadle & Adams Online, Dearborn was one of Gardner's pen names, used for some of his popular fiction.
Gardner grew up working on farms and studying in local schools, later teaching for a time before marrying fellow teacher Charlotte A. Closson in 1861. He lived in Adams and then North Adams, Massachusetts, where he worked for the Arnold Print Works and wrote novels during his spare time and evenings.
He wrote for publishers including Beadle and George Munro, and under the Andrew Dearborn name he published works such as Scarred Eagle; or, Moorooine, the Sporting Fawn. Gardner later lived in Williamstown, Massachusetts, served on the Board of Assessors there for several years, and died on December 5, 1909.