author

Samuel Alexander White

1885–1956

A Canadian author and teacher remembered for brisk, rugged adventure fiction, he wrote stories set in the North at a time when wilderness travel and the fur trade still fired the popular imagination. His best-known work today includes The Stampeder and Law of the North.

3 Audiobooks

Law of the North (Originally published as Empery)

Law of the North (Originally published as Empery)

by Samuel Alexander White

The Stampeder

The Stampeder

by Samuel Alexander White

The Hunt Pack

The Hunt Pack

by Samuel Alexander White

About the author

Born in 1885 and later working as a teacher, Samuel Alexander White built his reputation as a Canadian writer of adventure fiction. His work often drew readers into northern settings shaped by hardship, travel, and conflict.

His novels include The Stampeder (1910) and Law of the North (first published as Empery in 1913). He also published shorter fiction in magazines such as Adventure, where stories like "The Kalzas Hoodoo" and "Stolen Thunder" appeared.

White died in 1956. Though he is not widely known today, his stories still offer a lively glimpse of early 20th-century popular fiction, with fast-moving plots and a strong feel for frontier drama.