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W. H. Burroughs
Best remembered for practical nineteenth-century books rather than a widely documented public life, this writer moved between very different subjects, from animal training to American tax law. The contrast makes his surviving work feel unexpectedly vivid and curious today.
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About the author
Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm from reliable online sources. Library and catalog records identify W. H. Burroughs as William Henry Burroughs, the author of A Treatise on the Law of Taxation (published in 1877) and a later supplement to that work.
He is also credited with Haney's Art of Training Animals, a practical manual on breaking, taming, and teaching animals that has been preserved by Project Gutenberg and other library catalogs. Taken together, those records suggest a nineteenth-century writer whose published work ranged from highly technical legal writing to hands-on instructional nonfiction.
Because solid biographical sources appear to be scarce, it is safest to remember him through the books themselves: clear, utilitarian works aimed at readers who wanted usable knowledge, whether in the courtroom or the training ring.