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The Boy Miners, or, The Enchanted Island, A Tale Of the Yellowstone Country, Classics To Go

Excerpt: "Young Edwin Inwood leaped down from the small tree in which he had been perched for the last half hour, and ran swiftly toward the brook where his elder brother, George, and a large negro named Jim Tubbs, were waiting, ever and anon raising their heads, and looking towards the boy who was acting as sentinel, several hundred yards away, as if they were expecting some such an alarm as this. “Quick! they’ll soon be here!” he added in his terrible excitement. “How many are there?” inquired George, catching up his shovel at the same time with his rifle. “I shouldn’t wonder if there were twenty. I’m sure I saw a dozen, any way.”"

Edward Sylvester Ellis

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.

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