Lloyd Osbourne

Samuel Lloyd Osbourne was an American author and the stepson of Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson with whom he would coauthor three books and provide input and ideas on others.

Lloyd Osbourne was born in San Francisco to Fanny Osbourne and Samuel Osbourne, a lieutenant on the State Governors staff. They married when Fanny was just seventeen years of age, and Lloyds older sister Isobel Osbourne was born the following year. Samuel fought in the American Civil War, went with a friend sick with tuberculosis to California, and via San Francisco, he ended up in the silver mines of Nevada. Once settled there he sent for his family. Fanny and the fiveyearold Isobel made the long journey via New York, the isthmus of Panama, San Francisco, and finally by wagons and stagecoach to the mining camps of the Reese River, and the town of Austin in Lander County. Life was difficult in the mining town, and there were few women around. Fanny learned to shoot a pistol and to roll her own cigarettes.

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