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Wilder Anthony

1883–1965

Best known for brisk adventure and western fiction, this early 20th-century writer left behind stories full of frontier conflict, danger, and momentum. His work still circulates today through public-domain collections and vintage pulp reprints.

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Hidden Gold

Hidden Gold

by Wilder Anthony

About the author

Wilder Anthony was an American writer born in 1883 and deceased in 1965. Surviving catalog records and public-domain editions show that he wrote popular fiction in the early 20th century, including westerns and adventure stories.

His best-known novel today is Hidden Gold, a western first published in the 1920s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg. He is also associated with magazine fiction and pulp-era storytelling, where fast plots, high stakes, and rugged settings were a big part of the appeal.

Detailed biographical information about his personal life is hard to confirm from the sources available here, so the clearest picture comes from the work itself: lively genre fiction written for readers who wanted action, suspense, and the atmosphere of the American West.