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Walter Fenton Mott
Best known for fast-moving adventure fiction from the dime-novel era, this writer is remembered today for tales of naval action and youthful daring. The surviving record is thin, which only adds a little mystery to a career tied to popular fiction of the 1890s.
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Young Glory and the Spanish cruiser : or, a brave fight against odds
by Walter Fenton Mott
About the author
Walter Fenton Mott was an American writer associated with late 19th-century popular fiction. Reliable biographical details about his life are scarce, but his name survives through adventure stories that circulated in inexpensive mass-market publications and later in digital archives.
He is credited with Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser; or, A Brave Fight Against Odds, a juvenile adventure novel set against the Spanish-American War era. Library and archive records also connect his name with entries in the Young Sleuth Library, including Young Sleuth in Demijohn City; or, Waltzing William's Dancing School, and some of those works are described as generally attributed to him rather than firmly documented.
That uncertainty is part of what makes Mott interesting today: he seems to belong to the busy, pseudonymous world of dime novels, where authors often wrote quickly and left only faint traces behind. Even with so little personal history confirmed, his surviving fiction offers a clear glimpse of the energetic, sensational storytelling that entertained young readers in the 1890s.