Samuel Travers Clover

Samuel Travers Clover (August 13, 1859 – May 28, 1934) was a British-American writer, editor and publisher in Chicago and Los Angeles in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

[1] Born in Bromley, Middlesex County, southeast of London, England, to John James Clover (a baker) and Esther Greayer, on August 13, 1859.

Jane Apostol writes of how someone offered him a job at the Chicago Times if he acquired some life experience, so he set off on a round-the-world journey, which he documented in three of his books.

[3] He was present at the final ghost dance of the Hunkpapa Lakota Chief Sitting Bull, and was said to be the last white person to see him alive.

[3] He ran a humorous newspaper and book publishing company in Sioux Falls, Dakota Bell, that he said had a "brief but merry existence.