Harry Hazelton

Harry Hazelton was the byline on a number of American dime novels in the 1860s, especially adventure stories and war fiction. Reference sources on dime-novel history note that the name may have been a pseudonym, and some records connect it with alternate forms such as Lt.-Col. Hazeltine or Hazelton.

Modern library and public-domain sources often group Harry Hazelton with Joseph Edward Badger, Jr. (1848–1909), a very productive American popular writer who published under several names. LibriVox lists Harry Hazelton as one of Badger's pseudonyms, while specialized dime-novel bibliographies say the attribution is uncertain for at least some works, so the connection is best treated as likely rather than perfectly settled.

What is clear is the kind of reading associated with the name: brisk, dramatic fiction full of outlaws, scouts, border conflicts, and battlefield suspense. Many of those stories survived through reprints and public-domain archives, giving today's listeners a window into the energy and imagination of early mass-market American storytelling.