Robert Ames Bennet (1870-1954) was an American western and science fiction writer. Several of his novels were made into films, including "Finders Keepers" and "Out of the Depths". He was the author of: Thyra: A Romance of the Polar Pit (1901), For the White Christ (1905), A Volunteer With Pike (1909), Out of the Primitive (1911), The Forest Maiden (1914), The Bowl of Baal (1917), The Blond Beast (1918), Bloom of Cactus (1919), The Two-Gun Man (1924) and Caught in the Wild (1932).