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Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in
*"James Fenimore Cooper Adams" or "Captain Bruin Adams" (68 titles)
*"Boynton M. Belknap" (9 titles)
*"J. G. Bethune" (1 title)
*"Captain Latham C. Carleton" (2 titles)
*"Frank Faulkner" (1 title)
*"Capt. R. M. Hawthorne" (4 titles)
*"Lieut. Ned Hunter" (5 titles)
*"Lieut. R. H. Jayne" (at least 2 titles in the ''War Whoop'' series)
*"Charles E. Lasalle" (16 titles)
*"H. R. Millbank" (3 titles)
*"Billex Muller" (3 titles)
*"Lieut. J. H. Randolph" (8 titles)
*"Emerson Rodman" (10 titles)
*"E. A. St. Mox" (2 titles)
*"Seelin Robins" (19 titles)
Works by Edward S. Ellis
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Nickels and Dimes from Northern Illinois University
* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, Edward S. 1840 births 1916 deaths American male biographers 19th-century American historians 19th-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists People from Geneva, Ohio Western (genre) writers 20th-century American biographers American male novelists American male essayists 19th-century essayists 20th-century American essayists 19th-century American male writers Dime novelists 20th-century American male writers
Ohio
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and died at Cliff Island, Maine.
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include ''The Steam Man of the Prairies
''The Steam Man of the Prairies'' by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and archetype of the Frank Reade series. It is one of the earliest examples of the so-called "Edisonade" genre. Ellis was a prolific 19th-century au ...
'' and ''Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier''. Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his ''Deerfoot'' novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.
Dime novels
''Seth Jones'' was the most significant of earlydime novel
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, r ...
s of publishers Beadle and Adams
Erastus Flavel Beadle (September 9, 1821 – December 18, 1894) was an American printer and pioneer in publishing pulp fiction.
Biography
Erastus was born in Otsego County, New York, United States, in 1821, and had a brother, Irwin Pedro Be ...
. It is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the 16th president of the United States from 1861 until his assassination in 1865. Lincoln led the nation thro ...
's favorite stories. During the mid-1880s, after a fiction-writing career of some thirty years, Ellis eventually began composing more serious works of biography, history, and persuasive writing
Persuasive writing is any written communication with the intention to convince or influence readers to believe in an idea or opinion and to do an action. Many writings such as criticisms, reviews, reaction papers, editorials, proposals, advertise ...
. Of note was "The Life of Colonel David Crockett", which had the story of Davy Crockett giving a speech usually called "Not Yours To Give". It was a speech in opposition to awarding money to a Navy widow on the grounds that Congress had no Constitutional mandate to give charity. It was said to have been inspired by Crockett's meeting with a Horatio Bunce
Horatio is an English male given name, an Italianized form of the ancient Roman Latin '' nomen'' (name) '' Horatius'', from the Roman ''gens'' (clan) '' Horatia''. The modern Italian form is ''Orazio'', the modern Spanish form ''Horacio''. It appe ...
, a much quoted man in Libertarian circles, but one for whom historical evidence is non-existent.
Pseudonyms
Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including:
*"James Fenimore Cooper Adams" or "Captain Bruin Adams" (68 titles)
*"Boynton M. Belknap" (9 titles)
*"J. G. Bethune" (1 title)
*"Captain Latham C. Carleton" (2 titles)
*"Frank Faulkner" (1 title)
*"Capt. R. M. Hawthorne" (4 titles)
*"Lieut. Ned Hunter" (5 titles)
*"Lieut. R. H. Jayne" (at least 2 titles in the ''War Whoop'' series)
*"Charles E. Lasalle" (16 titles)
*"H. R. Millbank" (3 titles)
*"Billex Muller" (3 titles)
*"Lieut. J. H. Randolph" (8 titles)
*"Emerson Rodman" (10 titles)
*"E. A. St. Mox" (2 titles)
*"Seelin Robins" (19 titles)
Partial bibliography
*''Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier'' (1860) *''The Steam Man of the Prairies'' (1868) *''The Forest Monster'' (1870) *''Life and Times of Daniel Boone...with Sketches of Simon Kenton, Lewis Wetzel, and Other Leaders in the Settlement of the West'' (1884) *''A Young Hero'' (1888) *''The Boy Hunters of Kentucky'' (1889) * ''On The Trail Of The Moose'' (1894) *''Across Texas'' (1894) *''The Young Scout'' (1895) *''Lost in the Rockies'' (1898) *''The Life of Kit Carson; Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent, and Colonel U.S.A.'' (189 *''A Strange Craft And Its Wonderful Voyage'' (1900) *''Deerfoot on the Prairies'' (1905) *''The Flying Boys in the Sky'' (1911) *''The Boy Patrol on Guard'' (1913) *''The Dragon of the Skies'' (1915) * The Stories of the Greatest Nations (withCharles Francis Horne
Charles Francis Horne (January 12, 1870 – September 13, 1942) was an American author. He wrote or edited more than one hundred books, mostly multi-volume history works. He was a Professor of English at City College of New York.
Horne was born ...
)
* Spain: The Story of a Great Nation (with Charles Francis Horne
Charles Francis Horne (January 12, 1870 – September 13, 1942) was an American author. He wrote or edited more than one hundred books, mostly multi-volume history works. He was a Professor of English at City College of New York.
Horne was born ...
)
* Russia: The Story of a Great Nation (with Charles Francis Horne
Charles Francis Horne (January 12, 1870 – September 13, 1942) was an American author. He wrote or edited more than one hundred books, mostly multi-volume history works. He was a Professor of English at City College of New York.
Horne was born ...
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''Deerfoot'' series
Ellis' best known books follow the adventures of ''Deerfoot'' of theShawnee
The Shawnee are an Algonquian-speaking indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands. In the 17th century they lived in Pennsylvania, and in the 18th century they were in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, with some bands in Kentucky a ...
, a young Native American renowned for his skill with the bow, and his abilities as a runner.
*''Deerfoot in the Forest''
*''The Hunters of the Ozark''
*''Deerfoot in the Mountains''
*''Deerfoot on the Pairies''
*''The Camp in the Mountains''
*''The Last War Trail''
Log Cabin series
This series introduces the characters Oskar Relstaub and Jack Carleton. Deerfoot appears in the second and third books. *''The Lost Trail'' (1884) *''Campfire and Wigwam'' (1885) *''Footprints in the Forest'' (1886)References
External links
*Works by Edward S. Ellis
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Nickels and Dimes from Northern Illinois University
* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellis, Edward S. 1840 births 1916 deaths American male biographers 19th-century American historians 19th-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists People from Geneva, Ohio Western (genre) writers 20th-century American biographers American male novelists American male essayists 19th-century essayists 20th-century American essayists 19th-century American male writers Dime novelists 20th-century American male writers