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Col. J. M. Travers
Best known for a fast-moving western adventure set around Custer's last campaign, this elusive dime-novel author is remembered more through the stories than through a well-documented personal history. The surviving record suggests a writer of popular frontier fiction with a taste for dramatic historical settings.
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Custer's Last Shot; or, The Boy Trailer of the Little Horn
by Col. J. M. Travers
About the author
Col. J. M. Travers is a little-documented author associated with late 19th-century popular adventure fiction. Reliable catalog records connect the name to Custer's Last Shot; or, The Boy Trailer of the Little Horn, and the Dime Novel Bibliography lists Travers as the credited author of that story.
Project Gutenberg also groups works under "Travers, J. M., Col." and cross-references that name with St. George Rathborne, which may suggest a pseudonymous or linked publishing identity, though the exact relationship is not fully clear from the sources available here. Because so little biographical information is firmly documented, it is safest to remember Travers as a name tied to the lively world of western and boys' adventure fiction rather than as a fully traceable public figure.
That mystery is part of the appeal. For modern readers, Travers represents the era when frontier tales, military exploits, and serialized action stories were printed for eager mass audiences and designed to keep pages turning.