author
James Roberts
1881–1934
A little-known early 20th-century Western writer, he is remembered today for The Coyote: A Western Story, a fast-moving tale set in the American Southwest. What survives of his record is sparse, which gives his work an added sense of rediscovery for modern readers.
1 Audiobook
The Coyote A Western Story
by James Roberts
About the author
James Roberts was an author born in 1881 and deceased in 1934. Reliable catalog and ebook records from this conversation consistently connect those dates with his name and with The Coyote: A Western Story, the work he is best known for today.
The Coyote was published in the early 20th century and has remained accessible through public-domain and library-style digital editions, helping keep Roberts's name in circulation even though biographical details about his life appear to be very limited. From the available sources, he can be described with confidence as a Western novelist whose surviving reputation rests chiefly on that book.
Because so little confirmed personal information was available in the sources reviewed here, it is best to let the fiction speak for the man. For readers who enjoy rediscovered Westerns and overlooked popular writers of the period, Roberts offers a glimpse of a once-familiar storytelling tradition that still has energy and atmosphere.