Francis Lynde

Francis Lynde (November 12, 1856 – May 16, 1930) was an American writer. Three of his books were adapted to film.^[1] He was born in Lewiston, New York, and wrote adventure novels set in the American West in the early 20th century.^[1] The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library has a collection of his papers.^[2]

His novels were set in the mountains of Colorado, Nevada, and Utah. Railroading and mining provided settings for his storylines. The main characters were often mining or railroad engineers. His collection of detective stories was titled Scientific Sprague.^[3] His story Moonshiner of Fact is set in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Tennessee.^[4]

Mary Antoinette Stickle Lynde (née Stickle; 1867–1960) was his wife.^[1]

He is buried in Forest Hills Cemetery, Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[1]

Filmography

• Across the Burning Trestle (1914)^[5]
• Stranded in the Arcady (1917)^[6] pages 940, 941
• Bucking the Line (1921), based on his 1915 novel The Real Man^[7]

Bibliography

• A Case in Equity (1895)
• A Romance in Transit (1897)
• The Helpers (1899)
• A Private Chivalry (1900)
• The Quickening (1906)
• The Taming of Red Butte (1910)^[3]
• The Real Man (1915)
• Branded (1917)
• The City of Numbered Days
• Empire Builders (1907)^[8]
• A Fool for Love
• The Grafters
• The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush
• The King of Arcadia
• The Master of Appleby: A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady (English)
• Pirates' Hope
• The Price
• The Lawyer’s Livelihood (1909)
• Scientific Sprague (1912)
• The Real Man (1915)
• After the Manner of Men (1916)
• Stranded in the Arcady
• The Wreckers
• David Vallory (1919)
• A girl A Horse and a Dog (1920)
• The Fire Bringers (1921)
• Mr Arnold (1923)
• Mellowing Money, (1925)
• Fight on the Standing Stone, (1925)
• Cripple Creek Nineteen Hundred
• The Cruise of the Cuttlefish (1925)
• The Tenderfoots (1926)
• Blind man’s Bluff (1928)
• The Complete Railroad Crime Cases of Scientific Sprague (2023)

References

1. Gaston: The amazing career of Francis Lynde April 15th, 2018 by Kay Baker Gaston, Chattanooga Times Free Press
2. Lynde, Francis (March 22, 1891). Francis Lynde papers. OCLC 229130581 – via Open WorldCat.
3. Glassman, Steve; O'Sullivan, Maurice J. (March 23, 2001). Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest: Bad Boys and Bad Girls in the Badlands. Popular Press. ISBN 9780879728465 – via Google Books.
4. Leiter, Andrew B. (August 31, 2011). Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s. McFarland. ISBN 9780786487028 – via Google Books.
5. "The Edison Kinetogram". Thomas A. Edison, Incorporated. March 24, 1913 – via page 24.
6. "Motography". March 24, 1917 – via pages 940-942.
7. "Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions". U.S. Government Printing Office. March 24, 1921 – via page43594.
8. "Francis Lynde (Lynde, Francis, 1856-1930) | The Online Books Page". onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu.

Additional sources

• American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography By Geoffrey D. Smith, partial bibliography, Page 419
• Elizabeth Fry Page: Feathers from an Eagles Nest” The Olympian, V2 (V1 and V2 combined), 1903 Page 23–27, Google Books.
• Personal notes on Francis Lynde and his home on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

External links

• Works by Francis Lynde at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Francis Lynde at Faded Page (Canada)
• Works by or about Francis Lynde at the Internet Archive
• Francis Lynde at the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
• Francis Lynde at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Francis Lynde at IMDb
• Francis Lynde at Find a Grave