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Anne McQueen
A little-known early 20th-century writer, Anne McQueen is best remembered for co-authoring a spirited ranch story for young readers. Surviving records about her are sparse, which gives her work a quiet air of mystery.
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The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch
by Grace MacGowan Cooke, Anne McQueen
About the author
Anne McQueen was an American writer whose name is most clearly linked to The Girls of Silver Spur Ranch, a novel published in 1913 and credited to Grace MacGowan Cooke and Anne McQueen. Project Gutenberg and other catalog records confirm that this is the work most readily associated with her.
A Florida Memory archive note also describes her as the author of a series of stories, short stories, and poems in the 1920s. Beyond that, dependable biographical details are hard to pin down, and major reference sources offer only minimal information.
That scarcity means McQueen remains an elusive figure today. Even so, her surviving credits place her among the many early writers whose contributions to popular fiction and periodical literature are still worth rediscovering.