J. Allan Dunn (1872-1941) was an enormously prolific writer of pulp fiction, selling nearly 1000 stories of various lengths during a career than spanned 30 years. Born in London, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 21. An explorer by nature, Dunn lived for several years in Colorado and traveled all over the West. Later he moved to Honolulu and, while based there, toured the Pacific extensively. After five years in Hawaii he relocated to San Francisco, where he began writing in earnest and gravitated to adventure stories after becoming friendly with Jack London. The peripatetic Dun...