author
Frederick H. Dewey
A journalist turned novelist of the American West, he drew on years of reporting in California and the Southwest to write fast-moving frontier adventures. His stories often mix danger, mystery, and rugged landscapes, which helped make him a familiar name in dime-novel fiction.
2 Audiobooks
Cato, the creeper; or, The demon of Dead-Man's Forest
by Frederick H. Dewey
The phantom tracker; or, The prisoner of the hill cave
by Frederick H. Dewey
About the author
Born Frederick Hastings Dewey in Nashua, New Hampshire, on November 5, 1853, he later moved with his family to California. After studying at the military academy in Rochester, New York, he worked on his father's ranch near Salinas before moving into newspaper work.
He became a special writer for the San Francisco Chronicle and later served as editor and proprietor of newspapers in California and Arizona. His reporting took him across the Southwest and into Mexico, and that firsthand knowledge of frontier places and people gave his fiction a vivid, lived-in feel.
Dewey is remembered for western and adventure tales such as Will-o'-the-Wisp, The California Trooper, Cato, the Creeper, and The Phantom Tracker. He died in Phoenix, Arizona, on July 10, 1905, but his action-filled stories have continued to circulate through reprints and digital editions.