moore founded "trotwood's monthly", an agrarian magazine, in 1905. a year later, as it merged with robert love taylor's magazine, it became known as the "taylor-trotwood magazine". moore was the chief writer and editor. the magazine was discontinued in 1910. meanwhile, he was the author of historical sketches on andrew jackson, andrew johnson, james k. polk and sam houston. he was also a contributor to "the saturday evening post".