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Ruth Kedzie Wood

A lively early-20th-century travel writer, she turned journeys through Russia, Spain, Portugal, California, and the Pacific Northwest into practical, readable books for curious travelers.

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The Mentor: Belgium the Brave, Vol. 8, Num. 3, Serial No. 199, March 15, 1920

The Mentor: Belgium the Brave, Vol. 8, Num. 3, Serial No. 199, March 15, 1920

by Ruth Kedzie Wood

About the author

Ruth Kedzie Wood was an American travel writer whose work focused on helping readers explore new places with confidence. Available library and public-domain sources describe her as an American tourist and writer, and note that she was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Her known books include Honeymooning in Russia (1911), The Tourist's Russia (1912), The Tourist's Spain and Portugal (1913), The Tourist's California (1914), The Tourist's Maritime Provinces (1915), and The Tourist's Northwest (1916). Taken together, they suggest a writer interested in making travel both adventurous and accessible.

Some basic biographical details remain hard to confirm from the sources I found, but Wikisource records that she died in 1950. Her surviving books still give a clear sense of her appeal: practical, curious, and drawn to the excitement of seeing the wider world.