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Burt Leslie
A little-known pulp-era storyteller, remembered today for the adventure tale "Gold," wrote of mining camps and frontier conflict with brisk, old-school energy. Very little biographical information seems to survive, which only adds to the mystery around this early genre writer.
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Gold
by Burt Leslie
About the author
Burt Leslie is a scarce figure in the record, but his work has survived through modern library and ebook catalogs. The clearest trace is "Gold," a short adventure story that Project Gutenberg describes as set in a Colorado mining camp, built around a boundary-line strike, sabotage, and a fight over a rightful claim.
Library listings from the Online Books Page and Project Gutenberg currently point to "Gold" as the main confirmed work available under his name. More recently, that story has also been included in collections such as The Western Short Story MEGAPACK, which places Leslie alongside other classic Western and pulp-era writers.
Because reliable biographical sources are so limited, it is hard to say much more with confidence about the person behind the byline. What can be said is that the surviving story fits comfortably into the tradition of early popular adventure fiction: fast-moving, high-stakes, and rooted in the rough world of prospectors, rival claims, and frontier survival.