author
Claude A. LaBelle
Best known for the Ranger Boys adventures, this early 20th-century writer created brisk, outdoorsy stories full of pursuit, danger, and teamwork. His books follow resourceful young heroes through forests, borderlands, and other rough country where quick thinking matters.
3 Audiobooks
The Ranger Boys Outwit the Timber Thieves
by Claude A. LaBelle
The Ranger Boys and Their Reward
by Claude A. LaBelle
The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers
by Claude A. LaBelle
About the author
Claude A. LaBelle is known for a series of boys' adventure novels centered on the Ranger Boys, including The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers, The Ranger Boys and Their Reward, The Ranger Boys Outwit the Timber Thieves, and The Ranger Boys to the Rescue. These books were published in the 1920s and have remained available through library archives, reprints, and Project Gutenberg.
His fiction fits comfortably within the classic adventure tradition: fast-moving plots, wilderness settings, criminal schemes, and young protagonists who rely on courage and loyalty. The appeal is straightforward and enduring, especially for listeners who enjoy vintage juvenile fiction with a strong sense of action and place.
Very little biographical information about LaBelle appears to be readily documented in major public sources, so the surviving books themselves are the clearest record of his work. Even so, the Ranger Boys stories have given him a lasting place among writers of public-domain adventure fiction.