![]() ![]() Jones became editor of the pro-Tyler the Madisonian, later being rewarded for his efforts with the U.S. His first novel, Wild Western Scenes, was serialized in the Visitor. The following year, he became editor of the Baltimore Sunday Visitor. Jones left Arrow Rock about the same time he was married, in 1840. He settled in Arrow Rock, Missouri in 1835 as a storekeeper. During the war, he served in the Confederate War Department, and is today, above all, remembered for his published diary from the war period.īorn in Baltimore, Maryland, Jones spent his childhood in Kentucky and Missouri. Jones was a popular novelist (particularly of the American West and the American South) and a well-connected literary editor and political journalist in the two decades leading up to the American Civil War. John Beauchamp Jones (Ma– February 4, 1866) was a writer whose books enjoyed popularity during the mid-19th century. ![]()
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