The River Fugitives

Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Co, 1893. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket - Pictorial Cover. Reissue. Boards rubbed and soiled, hinges weakening. 1893 Hard Cover. 256 pp. 6-page publisher ad follows text. Beige pictorial cloth, illustrated endpapers. Frontispiece depicting a Native America scalping a captive. "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 - June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio 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 noms de plume. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies 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.