Educated at Liberty College and Vanderbilt University, Altsheler began a career in journalism in 1885 with the Louisville Courier-Journal. In 1892, he moved to New York and worked for the New York World. He also served as their correspondent in Hawaii in 1898. He began writing novels while he was still an editor, writing primarily for young boys, much in the style of G. A. Henty. His first novel, The Hidden Mine, Tait, appeared in 1896. Most of Altsheler's works deal with American history and adventure and include The Sun of Saratoga: A Romance of Burgoyne's Surrender (1897), The Last Rebel (1900), The Rifleman of the Ohio (1910), The Guns of Bull Run (1914), The Sword of Antietam (1915), The Star of Gettysburg (1915), The Great Sioux Trail (1918), and The Lords of the Wild (1919). Altsheler and his wife were in Germany when World War I broke out in 1914. The hardships that they endured in returning to America seriously affected Altsheler's health and ultimately led to his death in 1919. |
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