Anton Mazzanovich

Anton Mazzanovich (1860-1934) was a Dalmatian-American soldier and author of real stories of the Wild West.

Mazzanovich's books can be classified as historical narratives or memoirs as opposed to short story fiction or novels.

[4][5] The population of his homeland was steadily declining as the youth was forced into the military to fight in foreign wars and the young Mazzanovich family decided to emigrate from Habsburg Austria to the United States in 1868.

Anton eventually got his way and joined the famed U.S. 6th Cavalry and was posted at Fort Lowell in Tucson in 1881.

He wrote about Gold Rush Postal Inspector John Clum[7] whom he had known in Arizona while in the military and other well-known people from out West such as Geronimo, Tom Horn,[8] Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Judge Hamilton Calhoun McComas, Kate Elder,[9] Billy the Kid[10] and others[6] He also had a stint as an actor in very early Hollywood silent films in 1918.