author
Edgar Beecher Bronson
1856–1917
A rancher, hunter, photographer, and late-blooming writer, he turned a life on the American frontier into vivid memoir and fiction. His books draw on real experience in Nebraska cattle country, West Texas, and beyond.
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The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier
by Edgar Beecher Bronson
About the author
Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1856, Edgar Beecher Bronson headed west as a young man and built his early life around ranching. He worked in Sioux County, Nebraska, and later in West Texas, experiences that gave him firsthand knowledge of frontier life and the cattle business.
Bronson was more than a rancher. He was also known as a big-game hunter and a serious photographer, and those varied pursuits fed the adventurous spirit of his writing. He came to authorship relatively late, using memory and observation to shape stories rooted in the American West.
He is best remembered for memoirs and fiction that preserve a personal view of ranch life, including Reminiscences of a Ranchman. Bronson died in 1917, but his work still stands as an engaging record of a fast-changing frontier world.