Harold Bindloss's Short Stories
is a compilation of all 19 of Bidloss's known short stories. Harold Bindloss (6 April 1866-30 December 1945) was a prolific English novelist, best known for his American western-cowboy-like adventures set mostly in western Canada, but some in West Africa and England, as well. Bindloss worked as a seaman, dock worker, farmer and planter, and these and other of his jobs had a profound influence on the level of reality in his writing.
Overshadowed, perhaps, by his novels are Bindloss's short stories, which share the degree of reality and adventure of his longer works. It is our goal to bring a compilation of these stories to readers who might not be familiar with Bindloss or may not know of or appreciate his short stories.
Between 1898 and 1920, Bindloss published 19 short stories, and all but one was illustrated with from one to three drawings. Seventeen were published in
Windsor Magazine
, an English popular periodical, which advertised itself as, "An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women." His first was published in another English periodical,
The Idler
, and his second in an Australian newspaper,
The Queenslander
. Although Bindloss lived and worked until his death, there is no evidence that he published any additional short stories. The entire collection of 19 stories and original illustrations are presented here.