Apache Gold, A Story of the Strange Southwest is a rip-roaring tale of adventure set on the Arizona frontiers of the American Old West written by Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 June 5, 1919). He was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction.
An abiding classic of western literature, our hero in this tale is Charles Wayne, a young but strong and sharp lad who seeks adventure in the southwesterly desert frontier of Arizona. Altsheler describes the vast open frontier evocatively, placing the reader in a time when equal measures of freedom and danger were abundant.