Pendexter, Hugh
Entry updated 9 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1875-1940) US author, mainly of Westerns for boys, though his first book, Tiberius Smith: As Chronicled by his Right-Hand Man Billy Campbell (coll of linked stories 1907), assembles a series of tales about Smith, beginning with "A Corner in Jurisdiction" (17 June 1905 Saturday Evening Post). The stories recount his exorbitant adventures as a big game hunter, who utilizes spoof Inventions, and the game of Baseball, to confound natives around the world in his search for exotic animals to sell to circuses; he also discovers a Lost World. Pendexter's works as by H P and Faunce Rochester are not fantastic. [JC]
Hugh Pendexter
born Pittsfield, Maine: 15 January 1875
died Johnstown, Pennsylvania: 11 June 1940
works
- Tiberius Smith: As Chronicled by his Right-Hand Man Billy Campbell (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1907) [coll of linked stories: first story appeared 17 June 1905 Saturday Evening Post: illus/hb/Albert Levering]
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