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Ohio)) William (Author at Arthur Westbrook Co. (Cleveland Ward
Best remembered for brisk, action-heavy western adventures, this early pulp writer turned the legend of Jesse James into fast-moving popular fiction. Very little personal information seems to have survived, which gives the work an extra air of mystery.
2 Audiobooks
Jesse James' Bold Stroke; Or, The Double Bank Robbery
by Ohio)) William (Author at Arthur Westbrook Co. (Cleveland Ward
Jesse James' Desperate Game; Or, The Robbery of the Ste. Genevieve Bank
by Ohio)) William (Author at Arthur Westbrook Co. (Cleveland Ward
About the author
William Ward is credited as the author of several adventure and dime-novel style stories associated with the Arthur Westbrook Company of Cleveland, Ohio. Confirmed titles linked to him include Jesse James' Bold Stroke; Or, The Double Bank Robbery and Jesse James' Desperate Game; Or, The Robbery of the Ste. Genevieve Bank, both now circulated in digital editions through Project Gutenberg.
Library and catalog records also connect him with other popular-fiction titles from Arthur Westbrook, including Jeff Clayton at Bay and Jesse James' $100,000 Robbery. Taken together, these records suggest a writer working in the lively commercial fiction market of the late 19th or early 20th century, where short, sensational tales of outlaws, detectives, and frontier danger were made for eager mass readership.
Beyond those book attributions, reliable biographical details about Ward himself are scarce. No clearly verified portrait or fuller life record was found in the sources reviewed, so he remains known mostly through the surviving stories rather than through a documented personal history.