author
James Fellom
A California newspaper man turned magazine writer, he built his reputation on brisk, popular fiction before publishing the western novel The Rider of the Mohave. His work carries the pace and punch of early 20th-century adventure storytelling.
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The Rider of the Mohave: A Western Story
by James Fellom
About the author
James Fellom was an early 20th-century American writer associated with San Jose, California. A 1920 San Jose Mercury piece described him as a former member of the Mercury Herald staff who was finding growing success as a magazine writer, selling short stories and novelettes.
He is best remembered today for The Rider of the Mohave, a western novel first published in the 1920s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. That surviving novel suggests the kind of fiction he was known for: fast-moving, accessible, and grounded in the landscapes and dangers of the American West.
Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be limited online, so much about him remains unclear. Even so, the record that survives shows a working writer who moved from journalism into commercial fiction and left behind at least one notable western still being read today.