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Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
1848–1909
Best known for fast-moving adventure stories and frontier dime novels, this late-19th-century American writer also left behind a small but memorable work of early lost-world fiction. His books have the rough-and-ready energy of popular storytelling from the pulp era.
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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
Redlaw, the half-breed; or, The tangled trail. A tale of the settlements
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
The Scarlet Shoulders; or, The Miner Rangers
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
Delaware Tom; or, The Traitor Guide
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
The Lost City
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
The Texas Hawks; or, The Strange Decoy
by Jos. E. (Joseph Edward) Badger
About the author
Joseph Edward Badger Jr. was an American author born in 1848 and died in 1909. Reliable library and reference sources identify him as a U.S. writer, and Project Gutenberg and other catalog records show that he published a substantial body of popular fiction under the name Jos. E. Badger.
Badger is especially associated with dime novels and frontier adventures. Reference material from Northern Illinois University and the Science Fiction Encyclopedia connects him with Western and adventure writing, while modern public-domain listings preserve titles such as The Lost City, The Scarlet Shoulders, Dusky Dick, and Outlaw Jack.
Today, he is most likely to interest listeners who enjoy the lively, serialized feel of nineteenth-century popular fiction. His work sits at the crossroads of Western adventure, pulp storytelling, and early speculative romance, offering a glimpse of the reading tastes that helped shape mass-market fiction in the United States.