Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

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Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

1834–1878

A 19th-century American writer, lawyer, and frontier observer, he is best known for lively Western adventure tales and for The Marvellous Country, a travel narrative drawn from his time in Arizona and New Mexico. His books mix firsthand experience with the fast pace and danger that readers of frontier stories love.

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The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West

The Young Trail Hunters Or, the Wild Riders of the Plains. The Veritable Adventures of Hal Hyde and Ned Brown, on Their Journey Across the Great Plains of the South-West

by Samuel Woodworth Cozzens

About the author

Born in 1834 and dying in 1878, Samuel Woodworth Cozzens was an American author whose work grew out of life in the American Southwest. Reliable library and public-domain sources identify him as a lawyer and, for a time, a United States district judge in Arizona.

He is best remembered for The Marvellous Country, a book about three years in Arizona and New Mexico, as well as for adventure fiction including The Young Trail-Hunters and the novel Nobody's Husband. His writing has lasting value because it brings together travel, frontier history, and the popular adventure style of the late 1800s.

Cozzens wrote about the Southwest during a period of intense public interest in the region, and his work helped shape how many readers imagined its landscapes, conflicts, and daily life. For modern listeners, he offers both a storyteller's sense of movement and a period view of the Western frontier.