This is the story of Harold Bell Wright who as an eleven year old orphaned boy was cast out into the world to survive on his own Alone and destitute he was possessed of an iron will to survive with ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — In an earlier Absolutely Arizona feature on the Iron Door Mine, I shared the legendary story of lost treasure somewhere in the Santa Catalina Mountains. That story was made ...

Harold Bell Wright was born in 1872 in Rome, New York. He grew up in poverty and was on his own by the time he was 12 years old. He scraped out a living for many years in the Midwest. One evening, he ...

ONE OF THE most popular authors of the early 20th century made his home in Tucson for over 15 years. Today, though, he is primarily remembered only because of a few small wooden signs near the ...

Today you can find Wright's papers at the University of Arizona's Library Special Collections. Wright's youngest son, Norman, donated them in 1983. Tucsonan Lawrence V. Tagg, a retired U.S. Air Force ...

In the first quarter of the 20th century, America's favorite author was undoubtedly Harold Bell Wright, a man who lived in Tucson longer than he lived anywhere else. He sold more than a million copies ...

Mr. Harold Bell Wright, we are interested to hear, can pun rather bitterly. Invited to a hot-weather “Bohemian” party, he was informed that among the guests would be Mr. Blank, a high-brow novelist ...

For many a sentimental reader, the books of Novelist Harold Bell Wright(The winning of Barbara Worth, The calling of Dan Matthews) made many a dream seem to get up and walk. Last week the aged ...