Author:Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt

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Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt
(1874–1950)
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American author; wrote more than a hundred novels and stories: known for his fact-based stories chronicling dramatic incidents in the lives of the old-timers of the Wild West: the best remembered perhaps being the collections, When the West Was Young and Tales of the Old-timers. Brother of author Jack Bechdolt.

Frederick Ritchie Bechdolt

Works

  • 9009 (1908) (with James Hopper)
  • The Hard Rock Man (1910) (First published as a short story in the Saturday Evening Post in 1908, next serialized as Tom Morton: A Story of the Hard Rock Men in the Saturday Evening Post in 1910)
  • When the West Was Young (1922) fact-based stories
    • How Death Valley Was Named — Joaquin Murieta — Tombstone — Tombstone's Wild Oats — The Show-Down — The Passing Of John Ringo — John Slaughter's Way — Cochise — One Against Many — The Overland Mail — Boot-Hill
  • Tales of the Old-timers (1924) fact-based stories
    • The Warriors of the Pecos — The Warriors of the Canadian — The Law-Bringers — Tascosa — Adobe Walls — Red Blood and White — The First Cowboy — The Forgotten Expedition to Santa Fé — The Texans — The Most Consummate Villain — Cassidy and the Wild Bunch — The Last of the Open Ranges

Works from periodicals

  • The Hard Rock Man (1910) ss
  • "Sand" (1910, Saturday Evening Post) article
  • "Jack Logan—Bad Man" (1910 Apr, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Heart of a Thief" (1910-11, The American Magazine, vol 71) [as Fred R. Bechdolt] ss
  • "Sociology at Snowslide" (1911 Oct 18, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
  • "Flanagan's Stool-Pigeon" (1912, McClure's) ss
  • "The Clubhauling of Monohan" (1912 Oct, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Man Who Was Not Hanged" (1912 Nov, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "Tim the Grappler" (1912 Nov, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Keelhauling of Fat Dan" (1912 Dec, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "Gold and Two Men" (1913 Feb, The Red Book Magazine) ss
  • "Jim Riley's 'Turn'" (1913 Apr, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Weasel and the Bronze Plaque" (1916 May, Smith's Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Old Stiff" (1917 Feb, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Quest of Douglas Wynne" (1917 May 7, The Popular Magazine) (ss)
  • "The Warriors of Pecos" (1922 Apr 30, Adventure) (ss)
  • "For His Family Honor" (1922 July 10, Adventure) (ss)
  • "A Stone in the Pool" (1922 Dec 30, Adventure) (ss)
  • "The Last of the Open Ranges" (1922 Dec 30, Adventure) (ss)
  • "The Sureness of MacKenzie" (1923 Jan 5, Sea Stories) (ss)
  • "The Way Out" (1923 May, Red Book) ss
  • "The Case of Mimbres" (1924 March, Blue Book) ss
  • "For the Sake of Business" (1924 March, Red Book) ss
  • "Sheriff Jack Flood" (1924 Apr, Cosmopolitan) ss
  • "Mogollon's Partners" (1924 May, Blue Book) ss
  • "Brazos" (1924 Aug, Cosmopolitan) ss
  • "A Son-in-Law With Sand" (1924 Oct, Cosmopolitan) ss
  • "The Soft Side of Hate" (1924 Nov, Cosmopolitan) ss
  • "Two Women of Delight" (1925 March, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
  • "His Flesh and Blood" (1925 June, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
  • "Two Women of Delight" (1925 March, Cosmopolitan) (ss)
Longer works and series
  • "Tom Morton: A Story of the Hard-Rock Men" (1910, The Saturday Evening Post) serial
  • Lighthouse Tom (1912, The Red Book Magazine, ss series)
  1. "The Romance of Lighthouse Tim" (1912 Mar)
  2. "Before Michael Came" (1912 Apr)
  3. "Red Larson's Account" (1912 May)
  4. "Sealed Orders" (1912 June)
  5. "The Piracy of Black Scotty" (1912 July)
  6. "An Epic of the Windjammers" (1912 Aug, The Red Book Magazine) [Lighthouse Tim] (ss)
  7. "The Passing of Black Jack" (1912 Sept, The Red Book Magazine) [Lighthouse Tim] (ss)
Non-fiction
  • "The Field Agent of Settlement. The Cowboy's Contribution to American Civilization" (1909 Sept 18, Collier's) (article)
  • "One Against Many" (1921 Mid-June, Adventure) ss
  • "Cochise" (1 July 1921, in Adventure)
  • "The Warriors of the Pecos" (1922 Apr 30 Adventure) (article)
  • "The First Cowboy" (1922 Nov 30, Adventure) ss
  • "The Last of the Open Ranges" (1922 Dec 30 Adventure) (article)
  • "'For to Admire and for to See'" (1924 Oct, Sunset) (article)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1950, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 74 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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