John Ludlum McConnel

John Ludlum McConnel (1826–1862) was an American lawyer and writer from Jacksonville, Illinois. He served as an officer in the Mexican War, where he was wounded at the battle of Buena Vista, and then practiced law in his home state. He wrote several novels of the West, among them Talbot and Vernon (1850) and The Glenns (1851), and a book of sketches, Western Characters (1853), illustrated by F. O. C. Darley, which portrays the Indian, the voyageur, the pioneer, the ranger, the peddler and other types of frontier life in the Mississippi valley. He died at thirty-six.