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A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Harry Hazelton

Author: Harry Hazelton (birth and death dates unknown)

Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym?); Lt.-Col. Hazelton (alternate name); Lt. Col. Hazeltine (alternate name)

Biography: American novelist of dime novels, persumed to be a pseudonym with two alternate spellings "Hazeltine" or "Hazelton". A later title page identifies the author as "formerly Captain Company A, Fremont's Body Guard." That would make the author Karoly "Charles" Zagonyi (1822–c. 1869), a Hungarian-born Civil War officer. Notably, he led the Springfield raid that features in the novel The Border Spy (1863) which also features Zagonyi as a character. Without evidence that Zagonyi is the author of this and the other novels attributed to Hazelton, the identity of the author remains unresolved.

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Fiction Titles:

  1. The Silver Bugle: or, The Indian Maiden of St. Croix.  1 vol.  London: Beadle and Company, 1865.
  2. Quindaro: or, The Heroine of Fort Laramie. A Tale of the Far West.  1 vol.  London: Beadle and Company, 1865.
  3. The Prisoner of the Mill: or, Captain Hayward's Body Guard.  1 vol.  London: Routledge, 1866.
  4. The Seminole Chief: or, The Captives of Kissimmee.  1 vol.  London: Routledge, 1866.
  5. Life Among the Red Indians: An Indian Romance.  1 vol.  Glasgow: John S. Marr and Sons, 1867.
  6. The Light Dragoon: or, The Rancheros of the Poisoned Lance. A Tale of the Battle Fields of Mexico.  1 vol.  Glasgow: John S. Marr and Sons, 1867.
  7. The Trail of Blood: A Tale of New York.  1 vol.  Glasgow: John S. Marr and Sons, 1867.
  8. The Gambler's Last Pledge: A Revolutionary Tale.  1 vol.  Glasgow: John S. Marr and Sons, 1867.