author

Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

b. 1879

Best known as a co-editor of a firsthand history of the American North Russia expedition, this early 20th-century writer helped preserve one of the stranger and less-remembered chapters of World War I. His surviving published work has a strong documentary feel, built around military experience and personal testimony.

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The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki

The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki

by Lewis E. Jahns, Harry H. Mead, Joel R. (Joel Roscoe) Moore

About the author

Records for Joel R. Moore (Joel Roscoe Moore), born 1879 identify him as the compiler and editor of The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki; Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919, published in Detroit around 1920 with Harry H. Mead and Lewis E. Jahns. The book focuses on the American force sent to North Russia after World War I and has remained the main confirmed work connected with his name.

From the available catalog and library sources, Moore appears less as a literary celebrity than as a participant in preserving historical memory. His work is rooted in firsthand military experience and in collecting the voices of others involved in the campaign, which gives it the tone of a memorial as much as a history.

Reliable biographical details beyond that are limited in the sources found here, so it is safest to view him as an early 20th-century American editor and wartime chronicler whose lasting importance comes from documenting the North Russia expedition.