Hu Maxwell

Maxwell was born on a farm near Horse Shoe Run in Tucker County, West Virginia, US.

He attended county schools for a few months only and showed an early talent for versification, even before learning to write at age 14 years.

Back in West Virginia he went into the lumber business, edited the Tucker County Pioneer, and wrote two novels, Rich Mountain and Llewellyn.

[citation needed] Over the years, the Maxwell family resided, successively, in Morgantown, West Virginia; Washington, D.C.; and Evanston, Illinois.

In 1924 — aged 64 — Maxwell located and traced the old Indian pathway, the Seneca Trail, between Oakland, Maryland and Elkins, West Virginia — an immense physical effort of research requiring him to walk 150 miles.