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Walter Fenton Mott
Best known for fast-moving adventure fiction, this elusive late-19th-century writer is linked to stories of wartime heroism and dime-novel suspense. Even though little about the person survives, the surviving books still carry the energy of popular storytelling from their era.
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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 is a little-documented American author associated with adventure fiction from the 1890s. Reliable online catalog and text sources connect the name to Young Glory and the Spanish Cruiser: or, A Brave Fight Against Odds, a Spanish-American War tale that is available through Project Gutenberg.
He is also connected with Young Sleuth in Demijohn City: or, Waltzing William's Dancing School, a dime-novel title originally published in 1894. Some library and archive records note that this work is "also by Harry Enton" or only generally attribute it to Mott, so the exact authorship history is not perfectly clear.
Because firm biographical details are scarce, Mott is best understood through the kinds of stories attached to his name: brisk, plot-driven fiction shaped by popular late-19th-century tastes for patriotism, danger, and youthful adventure.