author
Donald Ferguson
Best remembered for lively school stories set around sports, friendship, and fair play, this early 20th-century writer created the popular Scranton High books that still circulate widely in digital libraries today.
5 Audiobooks
The Chums of Scranton High Or, Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight
by Donald Ferguson
The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey
by Donald Ferguson
The Chums of Scranton High out for the Pennant or, In the Three Town League
by Donald Ferguson
About the author
Donald Ferguson is a little-documented author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on The Chums of Scranton High books, a run of boys' adventure novels published in the early 1900s. Confirmed titles include The Chums of Scranton High, The Chums of Scranton High on the Cinder Path, The Chums of Scranton High at Ice Hockey, and The Chums of Scranton High Out for the Pennant.
The books are centered on school life, team sports, loyalty, and character, with baseball, track, and hockey all playing a big part. Their straightforward storytelling and emphasis on sportsmanship place Ferguson firmly in the tradition of wholesome juvenile fiction that was popular in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s.
Reliable biographical details about Ferguson himself are scarce, so most modern readers know him through the books rather than the man. Because his work is now in the public domain and available through projects like Project Gutenberg, his stories have remained easy to discover for readers interested in vintage school fiction.