Texan Star

Historical novel the first of the Texan series.According to Wikipedia: "e;Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 - 1919), was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction.

Altsheler was born in Three Springs, Kentucky to Joseph and Louise Altsheler.

In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville Courier-Journal as a reporter and later, an editor.

He started working for the New York World in 1892, first as the paper's Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor of the World's tri-weekly magazine.

Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing children's stories for the magazine."e;