The Coming of The Law (Illustrated)

by Charles Alden Seltzer

Overview

The Coming of The Law: Kent Hollis has arrived in Dry Bottom, New Mexico to inherit his father's ranch and, believe it or not, the town's newspaper. Kent may be an Easterner, but he's not a tenderfoot. He's deadly with his gun, but lethal with his fists. In fact, he'd rather knock them out than shoot them dead. But, he can use his gun, he'd just rather not; as the town's anti-law leader learns. Hollis leads the town to one of law and order. Of course, there's romance; let's not forget that!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940162571124
Publisher:	New York: Outing Publishing Company
Publication date:	04/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	929 KB

About the Author

Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–February 1942) was an American writer. He was a prolific author of western novels, had writing credits for more than a dozen film titles, and authored numerous stories published in magazines, most prominently in Argosy.

Seltzer was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the son of Lucien B. Seltzer and Oceania Hart of Columbus, Ohio. Before becoming a successful writer, he was variously a newsboy, telegraph messenger, painter, carpenter and manager of the circulation of a newspaper, building inspector, editor of a small newspaper, and an appraiser.

He married Ella Seltzer, and they had three sons and two daughters. His son Louis, later editor of the Cleveland Press, recalled that the family was quite poor when his father was struggling to break into the writing profession (he wrote two hundred stories before receiving an acceptance). During this time, Seltzer's wife brought him wrapping paper from the butcher to write on. In addition to Argosy, Seltzer's work also appeared in Adventure, Short Stories, Blue Book, The Outing Magazine, Western Story Magazine and the US edition of Pearson's Magazine. Seltzer wrote his westerns from the experience of five years living in New Mexico. Towards the end of his life, he was also elected mayor of his home-town, North Olmsted, Ohio.