author
Roger William Conant
b. 1895
A writer of early 20th-century adventure fiction, best known for a boys' frontier tale later republished as Hiking Westward. His work leans into hardship, ambition, and the pull of the American West.
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About the author
Roger William Conant was an American author born in 1895. The surviving records I could confirm point to him as the writer of The Young Homesteaders, a juvenile adventure story that was later revised and republished under his own name as Hiking Westward.
In the foreword to that later edition, Conant explained that The Young Homesteaders had first appeared under the pen name J. W. Lincoln, and that he wanted to reissue it with corrections and revisions. The story follows two boys heading west to build a home for their mother, and it reflects the practical, earnest style common in boys' fiction of the period.
Very little biographical information about Conant appears to be readily available in reliable online sources beyond his birth year, authorship, and connection to these books. Because of that, the details of his life remain harder to trace than the work he left behind.