Pendexter, Hugh (1875 - 1940)

Genre: General Fiction

Hugh Pendexter was born in Pittsfield, ME and graduated from Lewiston High School. He taught Latin and Greek in Maine high schools for a while, then moved to Rochester NY where he worked on the Rochester Post Express. He then moved back, married and settled in Norway, ME and devoted himself to writing, full time. He began his work as a humorous writer, but is best known as an historical fiction and western writer and for the amount of research that he put into each of his books.

Selected Bibliography

  • The Young Gem-hunters, or the Mystery of the Haunted Camp (1911)
  • The Young Timber-Cruisers, or, Fighting the Spruce Pirates (1911)
  • The Young Fisherman, or, The King of Smugglers' Island 1912)
  • Young Woodsmen, or Running Down the Squaw-tooth Gang (1912)
  • Young Sea-Merchants, or, After Hidden Treasure (1913)
  • Young Trappers,, or, The Quest of the Giant Moose (1913)
  • The Young Loggers, or, the Gray Axeman of Mt. Crow (1917)
  • Red Belts (1920)
  • Kings of the Missouri (1921)
  • A Virginia Scout (1922)
  • Pay Gravel (1923)
  • Old Misery (1924)
  • The Wife-ship Woman (1925)
  • Harry Idaho (1926)
  • The Red Road: A Romance of Braddock's Defeat (1927)
  • The Road to El Dorado (1929)
  • Gentlemen of the North (1929)
  • The Gate Through the Mountain
  • Partners (1930)
  • Over the Ridge (1931)
  • Red Autumn (1931)
  • Rifle Rule (1932)
  • The Scarlet Years (1932)
  • The Trail of Pontiac (1933)
  • The Flaming Frontier
  • Log Cabin Men (1934)
  • Red Man's Courage (1934)
  • White Dawn (1935)
  • The River Frontier (1935)
  • The Torch-bearers (1936)
  • Go-ahead Davie (1936)
  • The Homesteaders (1937)

  • Maine Authors: a Collection of Clippings from the Portland Sunday Telegram