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Lettie Artley Irons
A little-known 19th-century writer of frontier adventure and periodical fiction, she left behind a small but intriguing body of work. Best remembered today for Nat, The Trapper and Indian-Fighter, she also wrote essays and poems for newspapers and magazines.
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Nat, The Trapper and Indian-Fighter
by Lettie Artley Irons
About the author
Lettie Artley Irons was an American writer active in the early 1870s. A Northern Illinois University reference page notes that her poems appeared frequently in the Saturday Journal, and that she also wrote essays and a serial called Mad Nathan.
She is associated with the pseudonym Paul J. Prescott in dime-novel bibliographies, and modern catalog records connect her with Nat, The Trapper and Indian-Fighter, the work most often available under her name today. Surviving reference material also indicates that she died in 1875.
Very little widely available biographical detail seems to have survived, which makes her one of those authors known mostly through scattered publication records rather than a full life story. That scarcity gives her work an added historical interest, especially for readers curious about forgotten popular fiction and women writers of the 19th century.