author
Robert McReynolds
1854–1928
A cowboy, miner, and pioneer, he wrote with the authority of someone who had lived the rough-and-tumble West he described. His best-known work offers a firsthand-feeling look at frontier life, mixing adventure, hardship, and memory.
2 Audiobooks
Thirty Years on the Frontier
by Robert McReynolds
Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew
by Robert McReynolds
About the author
Born in 1854 and later based in Colorado Springs, Robert McReynolds is best remembered for Thirty Years on the Frontier, published in 1906. The book presents life in the American West through stories drawn from his experiences as a cowboy, miner, and pioneer, which gave his writing an immediate, lived-in quality.
He also wrote Where Strongest Tide Winds Blew and was credited on that book as the author of other works including Rodney Wilkes, The Luxury of Poverty, A Modern Jean Valjean, and Facts and Fancies. Together, those titles suggest a writer who moved between frontier recollection and fiction while staying close to the dramatic, fast-changing world around him.
McReynolds died in 1928. Today, he is mainly read for the vivid Western scenes and personal perspective that make his frontier writing feel direct and memorable.