Elmer Russell Gregor

Born in New York City on December 23, 1878, Elmer Russell Gregor was an American author whose career focused on adventure writing for younger readers. Reference sources agree that he also contributed stories and articles to outdoor magazines, which fits the strong interest in travel, nature, and frontier settings seen across his books.

Gregor wrote a steady run of novels and tales in the 1910s and 1920s, including Camping on Western Trails, The Red Arrow, White Otter, Running Fox, The War Trail, Three Sioux Scouts, and Camping in the Winter Woods. Many of these stories combine coming-of-age adventure with survival skills, long journeys, and historical or imagined portrayals of Indigenous life.

He died on April 4, 1954. Today, his work survives largely through public-domain archives such as Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, and other library catalogs, where readers and listeners can still discover his brisk, outdoorsy style and his place in early American juvenile adventure fiction.