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Augustus Allen Hayes
1837–1892
An American novelist and travel writer with a taste for adventure, he turned firsthand experience into stories of the West and beyond. His work carries the energy of the late 19th century, mixing fiction, travel, and sharp observation.
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The Denver Express From "Belgravia" for January, 1884
by Augustus Allen Hayes
About the author
Born in Boston in 1837, Augustus Allen Hayes was an American author best known for works such as New Colorado and the Santa Fé Trail, The Denver Express, and The Jesuit's Ring. Contemporary reference sources also note that he contributed to magazines and periodicals, and that he died in Paris on April 18, 1892.
Available biographical notes suggest that he graduated from Harvard, spent years living in China, and later worked with the Brush Electric Light Company in the United States. He is also credited in some sources as one of the founders of the comic weekly Life.
Hayes's writing reflects a lively interest in travel, frontier settings, and popular storytelling. Though he is not widely known today, his books preserve a vivid slice of 19th-century American literary culture.