Ames, Joseph Bushnell
Entry updated 9 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1878-1928) US author, mostly of Westerns, of sf interest for his last novel, The Bladed Barrier (1929), a Lost Race/Lost World tale set behind the eponymous barrier in a hidden valley in Baja California (see California), where two young prospectors come across an ancient Chinese civilization, its evil ruler (see Yellow Peril), and an unwilling priestess who turns out to be a white girl willing to be rescued. Other Westerns with lost race elements, sometimes minor, are listed below. [JC]
Joseph Bushnell Ames
born Petrolia, Pennsylvania: 9 August 1878
died Morristown, New Jersey: 20 June 1928
works
- The Treasure of the Canyons: A Story of Adventure in Arizona (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1907) [hb/]
- Curly and the Aztec Gold (New York: The Century Co, 1920) [hb/]
- The Emerald Buddha (Boston, Massachusetts: Small, Maynard and Co, 1921) [hb/]
- Flame of the Desert (New York: Duffield and Co, 1928) [hb/]
- The Bladed Barrier (New York: The Century Co, 1929) [hb/]
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