author
James Campbell Lewis
b. 1879
An early 20th-century outdoors writer, he is remembered for a vivid firsthand-style account of trapping and long-distance travel in the North. His name is closely tied to Black Beaver, the wilderness figure at the center of his best-known book.
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Black Beaver, the Trapper
by James Campbell Lewis, George Edward Lewis
About the author
James Campbell Lewis was an author born in 1879, known for Black Beaver, the Trapper, a book published in 1911 with George Edward Lewis. Library and catalog records consistently connect him with that work, and modern public-domain editions have kept it in circulation.
The book presents a rugged, adventure-filled picture of trapping life, with stories of wilderness travel, survival, and northern frontiers. It has continued to interest readers because of its lively subject matter and its glimpse into how outdoor adventure was written and marketed in the early 1900s.
Reliable biographical details about his later life were not easy to confirm from the sources I found, so this overview stays close to the publication record. What can be said with confidence is that his reputation today rests mainly on this unusual trapper narrative and its lasting afterlife in library archives and digital collections.