Walter Walden

Walter Walden was an American author born in Milan, Illinois, on June 1, 1870, according to a biographical reference available online. Reliable catalog and digitization records confirm that he wrote adventure fiction and that his work has remained in circulation through public-domain and reprint editions.

He is best known today for The Voodoo Gold Trail, a 1922 novel published by Small, Maynard & Company and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. Listings for his work also point to other adventure titles, including The Hidden Islands and Boy Scout Afloat, which suggests he wrote for readers who enjoyed travel, peril, and youthful, action-driven storytelling.

Little detailed biographical information appears to be widely available from the sources I could confirm, so much of his life remains obscure. Even so, the record of his books shows a writer working squarely in the tradition of brisk, imaginative adventure fiction from the early twentieth century.