Howard E. (Howard Elmer) Morgan

Howard E. Morgan, also listed as Howard Elmer Morgan, was an American writer active in the early 20th century. Confirmed surviving records are sparse, but Project Gutenberg and the Online Books Page list him as the author of Old Slowpoke and Bill of the wild streak, and IMDb records that he died in 1933 in Hartsdale, New York.

His fiction leaned strongly toward Western and outdoor adventure. Old Slowpoke was originally published in Western Story Magazine in 1930, while Bill of the wild streak is an earlier wilderness tale centered on a powerful sheepdog and the conflict between instinct and loyalty.

Morgan also received story credit on the silent Western film Mystery Valley (1928). Although many details of his life remain hard to verify, the work that survives suggests a writer drawn to action, animals, and the rugged atmosphere of popular pulp-era storytelling.