James French Dorrance

James French Dorrance was an American novelist born in 1879 and active in the early decades of the 20th century. Surviving catalog and library records connect him with popular adventure and western-style fiction, including Never Fire First: A Canadian Northwest Mounted Story and The Long Arm of the Mounted.

His work often turns to frontier settings, especially stories involving the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police, and he is also listed as a co-author with E. S. Dorrance on Lonesome Town. The record available here is fairly sparse, so many personal details about his life remain hard to confirm.

Dorrance died in 1961. Although he is not widely known today, digital library listings and reprints show that readers still find his tales of danger, pursuit, and rugged landscapes worth rediscovering.