author
Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
1848–1909
A prolific American storyteller of frontier and adventure fiction, he filled dime novels and serials with scouts, outlaws, lost cities, and fast-moving action. His books capture the punchy, cliffhanger-driven style that made popular fiction so widely read in the late nineteenth century.
8 Audiobooks
The Wood King; or, Daniel Boone's last trail
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
Outlaw Jack; or, the mountain devil
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
Dusky Dick: or, Old Toby Castor's great campaign A story of the last Sioux outbreak
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
The Lost City
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
Redlaw, the half-breed; or, The tangled trail. A tale of the settlements
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
Delaware Tom; or, The Traitor Guide
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
The Texas Hawks; or, The Strange Decoy
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
The Scarlet Shoulders; or, The Miner Rangers
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
About the author
Born in Payson, Illinois, on October 10, 1848, Joseph Edward Badger Jr. grew up in the Midwest and later became a widely published American writer of popular adventure fiction. Sources describe him as a major contributor to the dime-novel era, producing stories set on the western frontier and beyond, often under the name Jos. E. Badger.
His bibliography includes titles such as The Lost City, The Scarlet Shoulders, The Texas Hawks, and Delaware Tom. A library source also notes that he wrote under the pseudonym Harry Hazard, showing how closely he was tied to the fast-paced world of cheap serial fiction and mass-market storytelling.
Badger died on January 30, 1909. Today, many of his works remain accessible through public-domain archives, where readers can still enjoy the brisk plotting, frontier drama, and sensational adventure that made his fiction popular with earlier generations.