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James W. (James William) Buel
1849–1920
A prolific journalist and popular historian, he turned travel, crime, and world events into vivid books for a mass audience. His writing ranged from frontier outlaws to Siberian exile and sweeping illustrated histories.
3 Audiobooks
Glimpses of America A Pictorial and Descriptive History of Our Country's Scenic Marvels
by James W. (James William) Buel
The Border Bandits An Authentic and Thrilling History of the Noted Outlaws, Jesse and Frank James
by James W. (James William) Buel
About the author
Born in Golconda, Illinois, in 1849, James William Buel built a long career as a journalist, editor, and author. Sources on his life consistently describe him as an American writer who produced a large body of work, much of it aimed at general readers and centered on history, travel, adventure, and current events.
Buel is especially remembered for energetic, wide-ranging books such as The Border Outlaws and Russian Nihilism and Exile Life in Siberia. Accounts of his career note that he traveled in Russia and Siberia in the early 1880s, and that firsthand reporting helped shape some of his most notable writing.
He died in San Diego, California, in 1920. Today he is best known as a prolific late-19th- and early-20th-century popular writer whose books blended journalism, spectacle, and storytelling for a broad readership.