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Levi Worthington Green
b. 1858
Adventure, travel, and international unrest shape these early 20th-century stories, which send young protagonists into danger on both sides of the border and beyond. Best known for boys' adventure fiction set against real-world conflict, this California writer also lived a life tied to ranching and local civic work.
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Two American Boys in the War Zone
by Levi Worthington Green
About the author
Born in 1858, Levi Worthington Green was an American author associated with Redlands, California. Reliable records connected to his family and local history describe him as both a writer and an orange grower, and they place him in Southern California after his 1890 marriage to poet Julia Boynton Green.
He is known for juvenile adventure novels including Boy Fugitives in Mexico (1914) and Two American Boys in the War Zone (1915). His fiction drew on contemporary unrest and far-flung settings, giving young readers brisk, high-stakes stories shaped by the headlines and anxieties of the early 1900s.
Local historical sources also note that he served as an allotment agent for the Pala Indian Reservation and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the A. K. Smiley Library from 1911 to 1920. Archival descriptions of the Green family papers indicate that, beyond his published books, he also wrote poems, articles, and unpublished fiction.