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Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt
(1874–1950)
 

American author; wrote more than a hundred novels and stories: known for his fact-based stories chronicling dramatic incidents in the lives of the old-timers of the Wild West: the best remembered perhaps being the collections, When the West Was Young and Tales of the Old-timers. Brother of author Jack Bechdolt.

Works

  • 9009 (1908) (with James Hopper)
  • The Hard Rock Man (1910) (First published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1908, next serialized as Tom Morton: A Story of the Hard Rock Men in the Saturday Evening Post in 1910)
  • When the West Was Young (1922) fact-based stories
    • How Death Valley Was Named — Joaquin Murieta — Tombstone — Tombstone's Wild Oats — The Show-Down — The Passing Of John Ringo — John Slaughter's Way — Cochise — One Against Many — The Overland Mail — Boot-Hill
  • Tales of the Old-timers (1924) fact-based stories
    • The Warriors of the Pecos — The Warriors of the Canadian — The Law-Bringers — Tascosa — Adobe Walls — Red Blood and White — The First Cowboy — The Forgotten Expedition to Santa Fé — The Texans — The Most Consummate Villain — Cassidy and the Wild Bunch — The Last of the Open Ranges

Works from periodicals

  • The Hard Rock Man (1910) ss
  • "Tom Morton. A Story of the Hard-Rock Men" (1910, Saturday Evening Post) (SL)
  • "Sand" (1910, Saturday Evening Post) ar
  • "Flanagan's Stool-Pigeon" (1912, McClure's) ss
  • "The Clubhauling of Monohan" (1912 Oct, Red Book) (ss)
  • "Tim the Grappler" (1912 Nov, Red Book) (ss)
  • "The Keelhauling of Fat Dan" (1912 Dec, Red Book) (ss)
  • "Gold and Two Men" (1913 Feb, Red Book) (ss)
Lighthouse Tom
  1. "The Romance of Lighthouse Tim" (1912 Mar, Red Book) [#Lighthouse Tim] (ss)
  2. "Before Michael Came" (1912 Apr, Red Book) ss
  3. "Red Larson's Account" (1912 May, Red Book) (ss)
  4. "Sealed Orders" (1912 June, Red Book) (ss)
  5. "The Piracy of Black Scotty" (1912 July, Red Book) (ss)
  6. "An Epic of the Windjammers" (1912 Aug, Red Book) (ss)
  7. "The Passing of Black Jack" (1912 Sept, Red Book) (ss)
Non-fiction
  • "One Against Many" (1921 Mid-June, Adventure)
  • "Cochise" (1921 July 1, Adventure)
  • "The First Cowboy" (1922 Nov 30, Adventure)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1950, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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