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Burt Leslie
Known today mainly through surviving pulp-era fiction, this writer is associated with brisk adventure tales set in the American West. His work includes the short story Gold, a Colorado mining-camp drama first published in 1930.
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Gold
by Burt Leslie
About the author
Burt Leslie appears to be a little-documented early 20th-century fiction writer whose work survives more clearly than his personal history. Reliable public sources available here point to him as the author of Gold, an adventure story later preserved by Project Gutenberg.
Gold was originally published in Short Stories Magazine on September 10, 1930, and is described as a tale set in a Colorado mining camp, built around rivalry, sabotage, and a disputed strike. Listings from library-style book databases also connect his name with western and adventure fiction, suggesting a writer who worked in the popular magazine tradition of the period.
Because confirmed biographical details about his life are scarce in the sources I could verify, it is safer to remember Burt Leslie primarily through the fiction that remains available rather than through a fuller personal profile.