C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

Known in library catalogs as C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson, he was an American author born in 1824 and died in 1906. His books are closely tied to the American frontier and were written for young readers, mixing action, travel, and pioneer life.

Works credited to him include The Young Pioneers of the North-west, The Cabin on the Prairie, and On the Frontier; or, Scenes in the West. The surviving catalog records and digitized editions suggest he built his reputation on energetic stories of settlement and survival in the expanding West.

Reliable biographical detail about his personal life is limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to remember him mainly through the books themselves: brisk, accessible adventure fiction that helped introduce generations of readers to a romantic vision of 19th-century frontier America.