Elmer Harry Kreps

Elmer Harry Kreps was born in Union County, Pennsylvania, on June 1, 1880, and died on September 29, 1957, in Madison County, New York. He became known as an outdoors writer whose books drew on firsthand experience of hunting, trapping, and woodsmanship.

Sources available here describe him as both a writer and an artist. He illustrated his own books and also worked as a commercial artist, with work appearing in magazines of his time.

He is especially associated with three books on outdoor subjects: Science of Trapping (1909), Camp and Trail Methods (1910), and Woodcraft (1919). Accounts of his life say that he traveled in the United States and Canada, gathering the observations and practical knowledge that shaped his writing.