The author of Done in the Open lived longer than Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Owen Wister (July 14, 1860 July 21, 1938) was an American writer, historian and "father" of western fiction. 
Lucy Maud Montgomery {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (November 30, 1874 April 24, 1942) published as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning in 1908 with "Anne of Green Gables". 
Done in the Open was a verse collection published by in 1903 American author Owen Wister. 
