Western Fiction Writer Seth Lesser
Seth Lesser (5 September 1858 – 19 March 1939) was an American writer who wrote exclusively for western a fiction, a genre that focuses on the tales of the American Old West.
Seth Lesser was born near the Mississippi River to James Lesser and Antoinette Moreau, pioneers who moved to the West after the Great Migration of 1843. His father was a lawyer in Boston and his mother was a singer who descended from a landed family in France.
As a boy, Seth Lesser helped his father in maintaining the 1500-acre land which his father converted to a cotton plantation when he was just 9 years old. His father trained him to operate the plantation and govern the 500 slaves who worked in the Lesser plantation. When he came of age, the plantation was transferred to his name and he thus became its official owner.
Seth Lesser was interested in other things though. Having heard of Old West American outlaws when he was young, he devoted part of his time writing his own stories about the Old West. He formally became a writer when he published his own version of the outlaw legend popular during his days – The Other Side of Apache Kid. This was followed by the release of his second novel, The Lawless Desperado, an account of the crimes committed by Will Bill Longley.
