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James W. Buel

Born: 1849 in Golconda, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: James was born and raised in Illinois and moved to San Diego in 1908

Biography: James William Buel was a journalist, author, and editor, whose name appeared on the title pages of fifty-four works, some of which contained from ten to fifteen volumes. He wrote a lot of adventure tales about the wilds of Africa and the American West in the late 19th century, and is siad to have been in jail with the notorious outlaw Cole Younger.


Awards:

Primary Literary Genre(s): History; Non-Fiction; Other

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

James W. Buel on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=james+w.++buel


Selected Titles

Heroes of the Dark Continent :
ISBN: 0665325630 OCLC: 317727452

J.W. Lyon, Guelph, Ont. : 1890.

Ten things I wish I'd known-- before I went out into the real world
ISBN: 0446526126 OCLC: 42296697

Warner Books, New York : ©2000.

Award winning journalist Maria Shriver shares life-lessons she has learned.

The beautiful story :
ISBN: 0665267169 OCLC: 317906668

W. Briggs, Toronto : 1888.

  The magic city.
ISBN: 0405063644 OCLC: 1046811

Arno Press, New York, 1974 [©1894]

 

 

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