Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

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Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

1870–1952

Best known for lively adventure stories set in the American West, this early 20th-century writer blended fast-moving fiction with careful historical research. His books introduced generations of young readers to frontier scouts, soldiers, and explorers.

20 Audiobooks

Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters

Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Gold Seekers of '49

Gold Seekers of '49

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Easy come, easy go

Easy come, easy go

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women

Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies

Pluck on the Long Trail; Or, Boy Scouts in the Rockies

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

General Crook and the Fighting Apaches Treating Also of the Part Borne by Jimmie Dunn in the days, 1871-1886, When With Soldiers and Pack-trains and Indian Scouts, but Employing the Stronger Weapons of Kindness, Firmness and Honesty, the Gray Fox Worked Hard to the End That the White Men and the Red Men in the Southwest as in the Northwest Might Better Understand One Another

General Crook and the Fighting Apaches Treating Also of the Part Borne by Jimmie Dunn in the days, 1871-1886, When With Soldiers and Pack-trains and Indian Scouts, but Employing the Stronger Weapons of Kindness, Firmness and Honesty, the Gray Fox Worked Hard to the End That the White Men and the Red Men in the Southwest as in the Northwest Might Better Understand One Another

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Beaufort Chums

Beaufort Chums

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Into Mexico with General Scott When attached to the Fourth United States Infantry, Division of Major-General William J. Worth, Corps of the famous Major-General Winfield Scott, known as Old Fuss and Feathers, campaign of 1847, lad Jerry Cameron marched and fought beside Second Lieutenant U. S. Grant all the way from Cera Cruz to the City of Mexico, where six thousand American soldiers planted the Stars and Stripes in the midst of one hundred and fifty thousand amazed people

Into Mexico with General Scott When attached to the Fourth United States Infantry, Division of Major-General William J. Worth, Corps of the famous Major-General Winfield Scott, known as Old Fuss and Feathers, campaign of 1847, lad Jerry Cameron marched and fought beside Second Lieutenant U. S. Grant all the way from Cera Cruz to the City of Mexico, where six thousand American soldiers planted the Stars and Stripes in the midst of one hundred and fifty thousand amazed people

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail Being the story of how boy and man worked hard and played hard to blaze the white trail, by wagon train, stage coach and pony express, across the great plains and the mountains beyond, that the American republic might expand and flourish

Buffalo Bill and the Overland Trail Being the story of how boy and man worked hard and played hard to blaze the white trail, by wagon train, stage coach and pony express, across the great plains and the mountains beyond, that the American republic might expand and flourish

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

On the Plains with Custer The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief With the Yellow Hair, Under Whom Served Boy Bugler Ned Fletcher, When in the Troublous Years 1866–1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace

On the Plains with Custer The Western Life and Deeds of the Chief With the Yellow Hair, Under Whom Served Boy Bugler Ned Fletcher, When in the Troublous Years 1866–1876 the Fighting Seventh Cavalry Helped to Win Pioneer Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota for White Civilization and Today's Peace

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Opening the West With Lewis and Clark By Boat, Horse and Foot Up the Great River Missouri, Across the Stony Mountains and on to the Pacific, When in the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, Young Captain Lewis, the Long Knife, and His Friend Captain Clark, the Red Head Chief, Aided by Sacajawea, the Birdwoman, Conducted Their Little Band of Men Tried and True Through the Unknown New United States

Opening the West With Lewis and Clark By Boat, Horse and Foot Up the Great River Missouri, Across the Stony Mountains and on to the Pacific, When in the Years 1804, 1805, 1806, Young Captain Lewis, the Long Knife, and His Friend Captain Clark, the Red Head Chief, Aided by Sacajawea, the Birdwoman, Conducted Their Little Band of Men Tried and True Through the Unknown New United States

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

When You Were a Boy

When You Were a Boy

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

With Carson and Frémont Being the Adventures, in the Years 1842-'43-'44, on Trail Over Mountains and Through Deserts From the East of the Rockies to the West of the Sierras, of Scout Christopher Carson and Lieutenant John Charles Frémont, Leading Their Brave Company Including the Boy Oliver

With Carson and Frémont Being the Adventures, in the Years 1842-'43-'44, on Trail Over Mountains and Through Deserts From the East of the Rockies to the West of the Sierras, of Scout Christopher Carson and Lieutenant John Charles Frémont, Leading Their Brave Company Including the Boy Oliver

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

The great Pike's Peak rush : or, Terry in the new gold fields

The great Pike's Peak rush : or, Terry in the new gold fields

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

With Sam Houston in Texas A Boy Volunteer in the Texas Struggles for Independence, When in the Years 1835-1836 the Texas Colonists Threw Off the Unjust Rule of Mexico, and by Heroic Deeds Established, Under the Guidance of the Bluff Sam Houston, Their Own Free Republic Which To-day is the Great Lone Star State

With Sam Houston in Texas A Boy Volunteer in the Texas Struggles for Independence, When in the Years 1835-1836 the Texas Colonists Threw Off the Unjust Rule of Mexico, and by Heroic Deeds Established, Under the Guidance of the Bluff Sam Houston, Their Own Free Republic Which To-day is the Great Lone Star State

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Desert Dust

Desert Dust

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Lost with Lieutenant Pike How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited them

Lost with Lieutenant Pike How from the Pawnee Village the boy named Scar Head marched with the young American Chief clear into the Snowy Mountains; how in the dead of winter they searched for the Lost River and thought that they had found it; and how the Spanish Soldiery came upon them and took them down to Santa Fé of New Mexico, where another surprise awaited them

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

Opening the iron trail : or, Terry as a "U. Pay." man (a semi-centennial story)

Opening the iron trail : or, Terry as a "U. Pay." man (a semi-centennial story)

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

With George Washington into the wilderness

With George Washington into the wilderness

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

The other half

The other half

by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

About the author

Born in Rockford, Illinois, in 1870 and raised in Clinton, Iowa, he went on to study at the University of Iowa before working in journalism. Early reference sources and library archives describe him as a reporter who later turned to fiction, poetry, and historical writing.

He became especially known for boys' adventure novels and western stories, many of them rooted in the history of the American frontier. Accounts of his work consistently note that he wrote with a strong interest in real places and events, helping make his stories feel both exciting and grounded.

Over time, he built a long career as both an author and a historian of the West. He died in 1952, but his novels and historical adventures still stand as part of a tradition of American storytelling that mixed action, research, and a clear love of western history.