The life of Kit Carson hunter trapper guide Indian agent and colonel U.S.A. By (Paperback)

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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 articlesthat 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 Seth Jones was the most significant of early dime novels of publishers Beadle and Adams. 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. 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 a much quoted man in Libertarian circles but one for whom historical evidence is non-existent. It is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln s favorite stories