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Floria Howe Bruess
A little-known early 20th-century writer, she is remembered today for "Code of the Mounted," a frontier adventure that first appeared in pulp fiction and later entered the public domain. Her surviving record is sparse, which gives her work an extra sense of rediscovery.
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Code of the Mounted
by Floria Howe Bruess
About the author
Very little reliable biographical information about Floria Howe Bruess is easy to confirm today. Public-domain book records and library-style listings consistently connect her name with Code of the Mounted, and Project Gutenberg identifies that work as an early 20th-century novel.
The story itself is set in the far north and centers on the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, combining danger, pursuit, and a harsh wilderness setting. Evidence from magazine archives suggests the work was published in the pulp era, which places Bruess among the many magazine fiction writers whose stories were widely read in their day but only lightly documented afterward.
Because so few verified personal details are readily available, her reputation now rests mainly on the survival of her fiction rather than on a well-preserved public biography. For modern listeners, that makes her an intriguing rediscovery: a writer from the age of adventure magazines whose work still carries the atmosphere of that period.