author
Harry Castlemon
1842–1915
A hugely popular writer of adventure stories for young readers, he turned Civil War experience and a love of the outdoors into fast-moving tales of gunboats, camping, hunting, and frontier life. Writing as Harry Castlemon, he helped shape the style of boys' series fiction in the late 1800s.
52 Audiobooks
Joe Wayring at Home; or, The Adventures of a Fly-Rod
by Harry Castlemon
The Sportsman's Club in the Saddle
by Harry Castlemon
The Mystery of Lost River Canyon
by Harry Castlemon
Oscar in Africa
by Harry Castlemon
Elam Storm, the Wolfer; Or, The Lost Nugget
by Harry Castlemon
George at the Fort; Or, Life Among the Soldiers
by Harry Castlemon
Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto
by Harry Castlemon
The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt"
by Harry Castlemon
Frank, the Young Naturalist
by Harry Castlemon
Snagged and Sunk; Or, The Adventures of a Canvas Canoe
by Harry Castlemon
Don Gordon's Shooting-Box
by Harry Castlemon
The Sportsman's Club Afloat
by Harry Castlemon
Frank on the Lower Mississippi
by Harry Castlemon
Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; Or, The Sportman's Club Among the Whalers
by Harry Castlemon
The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England
by Harry Castlemon
Frank among the Rancheros
by Harry Castlemon
Two Ways of Becoming a Hunter
by Harry Castlemon
Frank on a Gun-Boat
by Harry Castlemon
Carl the Trailer
by Harry Castlemon
Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune
by Harry Castlemon
Snowed Up; or, The Sportman's Club in the Mountains
by Harry Castlemon
The Boy Traders; Or, The Sportsman's Club Among the Boers
by Harry Castlemon
The Steel Horse: The Rambles of a Bicycle
by Harry Castlemon
Frank Before Vicksburg The Gun-Boat Series
by Harry Castlemon
Frank on the Prairie
by Harry Castlemon
George in Camp; or, Life on the Plains
by Harry Castlemon
A Rebellion in Dixie
by Harry Castlemon
The Camp in the Foot-Hills; or, Oscar on Horseback
by Harry Castlemon
Frank in the Woods
by Harry Castlemon
Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho
by Harry Castlemon
Sailor Jack, the Trader
by Harry Castlemon
The Rod and Gun Club
by Harry Castlemon
Winged Arrow's Medicine; Or, The Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney
by Harry Castlemon
The Haunted Mine
by Harry Castlemon
The Young Game-Warden
by Harry Castlemon
The Missing Pocket-Book; Or, Tom Mason's Luck
by Harry Castlemon
The Young Wild-Fowlers
by Harry Castlemon
A Struggle for a Fortune
by Harry Castlemon
The Mail Carrier
by Harry Castlemon
The Boy Trapper
by Harry Castlemon
Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons
by Harry Castlemon
No Moss; Or, The Career of a Rolling Stone
by Harry Castlemon
Guy Harris, the Runaway
by Harry Castlemon
Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits
by Harry Castlemon
George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House
by Harry Castlemon
Rodney, the Overseer
by Harry Castlemon
Marcy, the Refugee
by Harry Castlemon
Rodney, the Partisan
by Harry Castlemon
A Sailor in Spite of Himself
by Harry Castlemon
Frank in the Mountains
by Harry Castlemon
True To His Colors
by Harry Castlemon
Marcy the Blockade Runner
by Harry Castlemon
About the author
Born Charles Austin Fosdick in Randolph, New York, he grew up in Buffalo and later wrote under the pen name Harry Castlemon. He began writing early, and his first book, Frank, the Young Naturalist, grew out of work he started while still in school.
Fosdick served in the Union Navy during the Civil War, and that experience fed directly into some of his best-known fiction. He became a remarkably prolific author of juvenile novels, especially adventure stories for boys, with popular series built around gunboats, wilderness skills, travel, and outdoor sports.
His books were known for action, practical detail, and an energetic, straightforward style that made young readers feel close to the action. Though written in and for another era, Harry Castlemon's stories remain a vivid window into nineteenth-century American adventure fiction.