Orange Perry Barnes

Orange Perry Barnes was an American writer born in 1858 and remembered chiefly for Fly Fishing in Wonderland, published in 1910. Records found during this search also connect him with the pen name Klahowya, a pseudonym noted in later listings and editions of the book.

His surviving reputation rests on that one unusual work: part fishing book, part nature writing, and part personal meditation. In it, he writes about trout streams in the Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone region, mixing advice for anglers with an easy, poetic appreciation of wilderness.

Biographical details about Barnes are sparse in the sources I could confirm. He is generally listed as having lived from 1858 to 1925, though one memorial-style record gives 1859 as his birth year, so even that detail is not perfectly consistent.