Virgil D. (Virgil Dillin) Boyles

Virgil Dillin Boyles was an American writer born in 1872 and died in 1965. Library and public-domain records identify him as the author or coauthor of works including Langford of the Three Bars, The Homesteaders, The Spirit Trail, The Hoosier Volunteer, and A Daughter of the Badlands.

He is especially associated with a sister-and-brother writing partnership with Kate Boyles Bingham. A scholarly history article on their work describes them as having grown up in Yankton, South Dakota, and notes that their novels drew on South Dakota history, frontier settings, and western themes.

Today, Boyles is remembered mainly for these historical and western novels, several of which remain available through public-domain and library collections. While detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, his fiction still offers a window into how early twentieth-century writers imagined the American West.