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Charles W. (Charles Wilkins) Webber
1819–1856
A restless 19th-century adventurer turned his years on the Texas frontier into vivid writing about exploration, natural history, and borderlands life. His work blends firsthand experience with the energy of early American adventure stories.
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Spiritual vampirism: The history of Etherial Softdown, and her friends of the "New Light"
by Charles W. (Charles Wilkins) Webber
About the author
Born in Russellville, Kentucky, in 1819, Charles Wilkins Webber became an American author, journalist, explorer, naturalist, and soldier. He spent time with the Texas Rangers, later studied medicine and theology, and eventually moved into literary and journalistic work in New York.
Webber is best remembered for writing about frontier life in Texas and the Southwest. His books and articles drew on travel, outdoor experience, and a strong interest in the natural world, giving his work a lively mix of adventure writing and observation.
His life was short and unusually eventful. He died in Nicaragua in 1856, but his writing has lasted as a colorful record of the American frontier and of one author’s appetite for risk, travel, and discovery.