Harry Lincoln Sayler

Harry Lincoln Sayler (1863–1913) was a newspaperman and novelist under his name and pseudonyms, and he was also a ghostwriter for a widespread youth fiction series.

Biography.

Sayler graduated from DePauw University. He married June Elliott of Shelbyville, Indiana, in 1889. They had two children. By occupation, Sayler was a newsman, starting in 1886 in Indianapolis. By 1889, he was working in Chicago, eventually becoming general manager of the City News Bureau of Chicago. Sayler was interested in history and became a member of the Illinois State Historical Society, the Chicago Historical Association, and the Louisiana Historical Association. He developed expertise in the subject of pirates.

Sayler wrote three juvenile fiction series relating to the then-novel technology of airplanes and flight. He wrote the Boy Scouts of the Air series under the pen name Gordon Stuart, the Aeroplane Boys series as Ashton Lamar, and the Airship Boys series under his name.

Sayler also wrote for another juvenile series, the Boys’ Big Game series, under the pseudonym Elliott Whitney.

Works

Boy Scouts of the Air series

Stuart, Gordon (1912). The Boy Scouts of the Air at Eagle Camp. Chicago: Reilly & Britton.
Stuart, Gordon (1912). The Boy Scouts of the Air at Greenwood School. CIHM/ICMH Microfiche series = CIHM/ICMH collection de microfiches ;no. 79277. Chicago: Reilly & Britton.
Stuart, Gordon (1912). The Boy Scouts of the Air in northern wilds. Chicago: Reilly & Britton.
Stuart, Gordon (1912). The Boy Scouts of the air in Indian land. Chicago: Reilly & Britton.
Stuart, Gordon (1913). The Boy Scouts of the Air on Flathead Mountain. Chicago: Reilly & Britton.
Stuart, Gordon (1914). The Boy Scouts of the Air on the Great Lakes (PDF). Chicago: Reilly & Britton.
The Boy Scouts of the Air at Greenwood School (1912)
The Boy Scouts of the Air in Belgium (1915)
The Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island (1917)
Boy Scouts of the Air with Pershing (1919)
The Boy Scouts of the Air at Cape Peril (1921)

The Aeroplane Boys series

Lamar, Ashton (1910). In the clouds for Uncle Sam or Morey Marshall of the Signal Corps.
Lamar, Ashton (1910). The Stolen Aeroplane, or how Bud Wilson made good.
Lamar, Ashton (1910). The airplane express, or the boy aeronaut’s grit.
Lamar, Ashton (1910). The Boy Aeronauts Club, or Flying for fun.
Lamar, Ashton (1911). A cruise in the sky, or the legend of the great pink pearl.
Lamar, Ashton (1911). Battling the Bighorn or the airplane in the Rockies.
Lamar, Ashton (1912). When Scout Meets Scout; or, The Aeroplane Spy.
Lamar, Ashton (1913). On the edge of the Arctic: an airplane in snowland.