author
James Roberts
1881–1934
A little-known early 20th-century writer, he is remembered today for The Coyote, a fast-moving Western set in the American Southwest. His surviving public record is thin, which gives his work an extra air of mystery.
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The Coyote A Western Story
by James Roberts
About the author
Little reliable biographical information about this James Roberts appears to be widely available online beyond his lifespan, 1881–1934, and his connection to the Western novel The Coyote: A Western Story. The book is preserved by Project Gutenberg, which helps keep his name in circulation even though he seems to have slipped out of the broader literary spotlight.
From the evidence that is easy to confirm, Roberts belongs to that large group of once-popular adventure and genre writers whose books outlived their fame. The Coyote suggests a writer interested in outlaw figures, frontier tension, and the stark landscapes of the Southwest.
Because clear biographical sources are scarce, it is safest to remember him through the work itself: a now-obscure Western novelist from the early 1900s whose fiction still reaches modern readers through digital archives and reprints.