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About the author
Rex Beach (1877–1949) was an American writer of popular fiction, active roughly from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Public information about him is limited, and details of his early life and education are difficult to confirm, but the fifteen works held in the collection show that he was especially known for adventure and inspirational coming-of-age themes. Representative novels such as The Spoilers, The Iron Trail, Flowing Gold, The Winds of Chance, The Barrier, The Net, and Rainbow's End, along with the short-story collection The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure, are mostly set against frontier development, gold rushes, railroad construction, and maritime adventure. Their tightly plotted, fast-paced narratives portray characters who rise to meet hardship. His works were widely serialized and adapted into early films, and he had a notable influence on the development of popular American adventure fiction in the early twentieth century.
