James Fenimore Cooper Adams Captain Bruin Adams Boynton M. Belknap J. G. Bethune Captain Latham C. Carleton Frank Faulkner Capt. R. M. Hawthorne Lieut. Ned Hunter Charles E. Lasalle H. R. Millbank Billex Muller Lieut. J. H. Randolph Emerson Rodman E. A. St. Mox Seelin Robins
Information sourced from NIU Beadle and Adams Novel Digitization Project[1]
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author.[1][2]
Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles[3] that he produced by his name and by a number ofpen names. Notable fiction stories by Ellis includeThe Steam Man of the Prairies[4] andSeth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier.[5] Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for hisDeerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.
Seth Jones was a prototypical earlydime novel published byBeadle and Adams.[6] It is said that Seth Jones was one ofAbraham Lincoln's favorite stories.[7] During the mid-1880s, after a fiction-writing career of some thirty years, Ellis eventually began composing more serious works of biography, history, andpersuasive writing. Of note was "The Life of Colonel David Crockett", which had the story ofDavy 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 aHoratio Bunce, a much quoted man inLibertarian circles, but one for whom historical evidence is non-existent.
^abc"Ellis, Edward Sylvester".Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project. Northern Illinois University. Archived fromthe original on October 4, 2021. RetrievedDecember 30, 2007.
^"Ellis Bio".The Life of Kit Carson. Lost Classics Book Company. Archived fromthe original on June 10, 1998. RetrievedDecember 30, 2007.
^Ellis, Edward S. (August 1868). "The Steam Man of the Prairies".Beadle's American Novel.I (45).
^Ellis, Edward S. (October 2, 1860). "Seth Jones".Beadle's Dime Novels.I (8).
^Columbia Literary History of the United States - 1 p554 Emory, Elliott, Martha Banta, Houston A. Baker - 1988 "It is not insignificant to note, therefore, that while Malaeska is best remembered as the first dime novel, Seth Jones is the far more representative work of the House of Beadle and Adams. Seth Jones has none of Malaeska's moral ambiguities.
^Vicki Anderson -The Dime Novel in Children's Literature 2004- Page 104 "Before many years had passed, however, the author of Seth Jones had accomplished the feat which the writers' world used to describe as “getting between boards.” In Seth Jones the Native Americans who capture Ina are Mohawks." ... It is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite stories."
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