A.M., 1903. Went to the Black Hills in a gold rush, but returned poor and
went to Columbia to study law, 1896-7. He was influenced by Brander
Matthews to write. Made his way into literature via book-selling and
reviewing. Explored in the Hudson Bay wilderness and in Africa, spent a
winter as a lumberman in a lumber camp, and finally went to the Sierras
of California to live. He is a thorough woodsman.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The Claim Jumpers. 1901.
*The Blazed Trail. 1902.
Conjuror's House. 1903.
The Magic Forest. 1903.
*The Silent Places. 1904.
Blazed Trail Stories. 1904.
Arizona Nights. 1907.
The Riverman. 1908.
*The Rules of the Game. 1909.
The Cabin. 1910.
The Land of Footprints. 1912. (Travel.)
African Camp Fires. 1913. (Travel.)
Gold. 1913.
The Rediscovered Country. 1915. (Travel.)
The Gray Dawn. 1915.
The Forty-Niners. 1918. (_Chronicles of America Series_, vol. 25.)
The Rose Dawn. 1920.
The Killer. 1920.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Bookm. 17 ('03): 308 (portrait); 31 ('10): 486 (portrait); 38 ('13): 9.
Bookm. (Lond.) 27 ('05): 253; 46 ('14): 31 (portrait and illustrations).
Mentor, 6 ('18): supp. no. 14 (portrait only).
Outing, 43 ('03): 218 (portrait).
World's Work, 6 ('03): 3695. (portrait).

+Brand Whitlock+--novelist, short story writer.

Born at Urbana, Ohio, 1869. Educated in public schools and privately.
Honorary higher degrees. Newspaper experience in Toledo and Chicago,
1887-93. Clerk in office of Secretary of State, Springfield, Illinois,
1893-7. Studied law and was admitted to the bar, (Illinois, 1894; Ohio,
1897). Practiced in Toledo, Ohio, 1897-1905. Elected mayor as Independent
candidate, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1911; declined fifth nomination. Minister
(1913) and ambassador (1919) to Belgium and did distinguished war service
there.

Mr. Whitlock has made his political experience the basis of his most
interesting contributions to literature.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

*The 13th District. 1902.
Her Infinite Variety. 1904.
The Happy Average. 1904.
*The Turn of the Balance. 1907.
Abraham Lincoln. 1908.
The Gold Brick. 1910.
On the Enforcement of Law in Cities. 1910.
The Fall Guy. 1912.
Forty Years of It. 1914.
Memories of Belgium Under the German Occupation. 1918.
Belgium; a Personal Narrative. 1919.

STUDIES AND REVIEWS

Am. M. 69 ('10): 599, 601 (portrait); 82 ('16): Nov., p. 30. (portrait).