author

Elmer Russell Gregor

b. 1878

Best known for adventure stories set on the American frontier, this early 20th-century writer filled his books with outdoor action, survival, and tales centered on Native American characters. His work became a steady part of boys' fiction and juvenile reading of the era, and several titles remain available today in the public domain.

6 Audiobooks

Three Sioux Scouts

Three Sioux Scouts

by Elmer Russell Gregor

Running Fox

by Elmer Russell Gregor

White Otter

by Elmer Russell Gregor

The War Trail

The War Trail

by Elmer Russell Gregor

Spotted Deer

Spotted Deer

by Elmer Russell Gregor

Camping in the Winter Woods: Adventures of Two Boys in the Maine Woods

Camping in the Winter Woods: Adventures of Two Boys in the Maine Woods

by Elmer Russell Gregor

About the author

Born in New York City on December 23, 1878, he was an American author whose surviving bibliographic records and public-domain editions place him firmly in the world of early 20th-century adventure writing. Reference listings also note that he contributed stories to juvenile publications and outdoor magazines, which fits the strong wilderness and frontier flavor of his books.

His best-known titles include White Otter (1917), Running Fox, The War Trail (1921), Three Sioux Scouts, and Camping in the Winter Woods. Catalog records and library listings show a clear pattern in his work: stories for younger readers built around the outdoors, travel, and dramatized frontier life.

He died on April 4, 1954. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources that are easy to verify, his books have endured through Project Gutenberg, LibriVox, library catalogs, and archive collections, giving modern readers a good window into a once-popular style of American juvenile adventure fiction.