Author:Stewart Edward White

Stewart Edward White
(1873–1946)

American author and spiritualist; his works were noted for the keen observance of the beauties of nature and human nature rendered in a plain-spoken style. Best remembered for the fiction and non-fiction books on the history of California, and the coming-of-age story Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout (1926).

Stewart Edward White

Works


  • The Westerners (1901)
  • The Claim Jumpers (1901)
  • Conjurer's House (1903)
  • The Forest (1903)
  • Blazed Trail Stories(1904)
  • The Mountains (1904)
  • The Silent Places (1904) IA
  • The Pass (1906), with Samuel Hopkins Adams
  • Arizona Nights (1907) (parts published as individual short stories in McClure's Magazine 1906) IA
  • The Cabin (1910)
  • The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1911) juvenile IA
  • The Land of Footprints (1912)
  • African Camp Fires (1913)
  • Rediscovered Country (1915)
  • The Forty-Niners; a Chronicle of the California Trail and El Dorado (1918)
  • Simba (1918) IA
  • Daniel Boone, Wilderness Scout (1922)

Works from magazines

  • "A Man and His Dog (ss) Short Stories, Vol 36, 1899
  • "The Saving Grace," (ss) in McClure's magazine, Sep 1899
  • "The Blameless Villain" (ss) The Smart Set, Vol 3, 1901
  • "Dorothea, Philanthropist" (ss) The Smart Set, May 1901
  • "The Girl Who Got Rattled" in Century Magazine, 62 (3) (July, 1901), pp. 464–469 (external scan) (external scan)
  • "The Scaler" (ss) in McClure's magazine, Mar 1903
  • "The Riverman" (ss) in McClure's Apr. 1903
  • "A Two-handed Game," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Oct 1903
  • "A Two-handed Game" (ss) in Harper's 1903
  • "Buried Treasure: the Old-timer's Yarn" (ss) McClure's Magazine, Jun 1906
  • "Two Kinds of Tenderfeet" (ar) in Harper's Weekly 1904
  • "Gabrielle" (ss) in The Red Book Magazine 1904 Aug
  • "The Road Agent," (ss) in Collier's magazine, Sep 26, 1908
  • "The Hole in the Cap: a Murder Story," (ss) in The American Magazine, Aug 1909
  • "The Marshes," (ss) American Magazine, Mar 1909 (also included in The Adventures of Bobby Orde, 1911)
  • "The Little Girl," (ss) American Magazine, Jan 1909 (also included in The Adventures of Bobby Orde, 1911)
  • "Until the Last Shot," (ss) American Magazine, Dec 1908 (also included in The Adventures of Bobby Orde, 1911)
  • "On the Way to Africa," (nf) in Harper's Magazine, Jan 1913
  • "The Tide," (ss) in Collier's magazine, Oct 16, 1915
  • "The Edge of the Ripple" (ss) Harper's Magazine, May 1917
  • "Moisture—A Trace (ss) Collier's Magazine, Mar 1918
Longer Works
  • Arizona Nights in McClure's Magazine (series)
    • "Part I: Uncle Jim's Yarn: The Indian Story (1906 Jan)
    • "Part II: Windy Bill's Yarn: the emigrant Story (1906 Feb)
    • "Part III: The Cattleman's Yarn: The Remittance Man's Story (1906 March)
    • "Part IV: The Ranch Foreman's Yarn: The Cattle rustler's Story (1906 April)
    • "Part V: Cyclone Bill's Yarn: the Mining Camp Story" (1906 May)

Works about White

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.


This author died in 1946, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 78 years or less. These works may 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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