This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

Author photo. Courtesy of the <a href="http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/id?1104800">NYPL Digital Gallery</a> (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

Courtesy of the NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)

John Bakeless (1894–1978)

Author of Spies of the Revolution

Includes the names: J. Bakeless, John Bakeless, John Edwin Bakeless, Edited John Bakeless

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Rating	Favorited	Events
513 (954)	3	31,026	(3.83)	0	0

organize | filter

Works by John Bakeless

Spies of the Revolution 112 copies, 1 review
America as seen by its first explorers: the eyes of discovery 110 copies
The Adventures of Lewis and Clark 50 copies
Spies of the Confederacy 42 copies
Turncoats, Traitors And Heroes 41 copies
Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness 38 copies
Lewis and Clark: Partners in Discovery 34 copies
Background to Glory: The Life of George Rogers Clark 19 copies
Christopher Marlowe: The Man in His Time 16 copies, 1 review
They saw America first;: Our first explorers and what they saw, 14 copies, 1 review
Signers of the declaration 12 copies
Fighting Frontiersman: The Life of Daniel Boone 5 copies
Classics Illustrated: Daniel Boone 3 copies
Daniel Boone 2 copies

Explorers of the New World 1 copy

Daniel Boone Master Of The Wilderness 1 copy

Classics Illustrated: Daniel Boone No. 96 1 copy

The origin of the next war; a study in the tensions of the modern world 1 copy

Daniel Boone 1 copy

Daniel Boone - Volume Four The Promised Land 1 copy

Daniel Boone - Volume Three The Wilderness Road 1 copy

Daniel Boone - Volume Two And Chase the Buffalo 1 copy

Daniel Boone - Volume One The Warrior's Path 1 copy

Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe 1 copy

Lewis and Clark: partners in discovery ( Apollo Edition) 1 copy

Daniel Boone (Classics Illustrated) 1 copy

They saw America first 1 copy

The eyes of discovery: the pageant of north America as seen by the first… 1 copy

The Adventure of Lewis and Clark 1 copy

organize | filter

Also by John Bakeless

The Journals of Lewis and Clark {abridged, Bakeless-1964} (Editor) 227 copies
America's Historylands: Touring Our Landmarks of Liberty (Contributor) 109 copies
The journals of the expedition under the command of Capts. Lewis and… (Introduction) 86 copies
The Journals of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and… (Foreword, some editions) 18 copies
The New Colophon - A Book Collectors' Quarterly, Volume II, Part 8… (Contributor) 1 copy

Members

Top members (works)

JYF_Library (3), jbenny57 (3), hobbits8 (3), WHLibrary1963 (3), sherryearly (3), Lynch3 (3), bnudd (3), geoffmangum (3), Pages_Aplenty (3), Crypto-Willobie (2), pc1951 (2), HARROGATEBOOKSTATION (2), eugenegant (2), CarlSandburgLibrary (2) — more

Recently added

cmharig (1), rshaynes (1), graapril (1), WisdomAndTruth (1), CDALibrary (1), wmorton38 (1), MapleArchesLibrary (1), ShieldmaidenOfRohan (1), Chinookan (1)

Legacy Libraries

WHLibrary1963 (3), Carl Sandburg (2), Ernest Hemingway (1)

Member favorites

Members: None

Add to favorites

Related tags

18th century (11) 19th century (6) America (16) American (13) American History (75) American Revolution (27) American West (10) biography (41) children's (5) Civil War (12) Easton Press (11) espionage (9) exploration (25) explorers (14) fiction (6) geography (4) Heritage Press (6) historical fiction (6) history (139) intelligence (6) Lewis and Clark (32) Lewis and Clark Expedition (9) literature (4) Meriwether Lewis (6) Native Americans (6) non-fiction (55) own (5) Paul Revere (5) Revolutionary War (16) spy (15) to-read (5) travel (22) United States - Description and travel (6) US History (31) USA (18) VHS (4) war (5) West (8) westward expansion (5) William Clark (4)

Events on LibraryThing Local

No events listed. (add an event)

Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical name

Legal name

Bakeless, John Edwin

Other names

Date of birth

Date of death

Burial location

Gender

Nationality

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA

Place of death

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Places of residence

Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA

New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Education

Williams College (BA ∙ Philosophy ∙ 1918)

Harvard University ( [1920])

Harvard University ( [1936])

Occupations

literary editor

Military intelligence

Relationships

Bakeless, Katherine (wife)

Organizations

Bloomsburg Morning Press

Literary Digest

New York University

(show all 8 items)

Awards and honors

Guggenheim Fellowship (1936-1937)

Guggenheim Fellowship (1946)

Agents

Short biography

Disambiguation notice

Links

Author Biography

Member ratings

Average:

(3.83)

0.5
1
1.5
2	1
2.5
3	9
3.5	5
4	18
4.5	1
5	6

Author pictures (2)

(see all 2 author pictures)

Improve this author

Combine/separate works

Author division

John Bakeless is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

Includes

John Bakeless is composed of 5 names. You can examine and separate out names.

Combine with…

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 128,960,700 books! | Top bar: Always visible

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /