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In 1903 the famed “Cowboy Artist,” Charles M. Russell, ...)
In 1903 the famed “Cowboy Artist,” Charles M. Russell, presented his nephew Austin with a copy of the boy’s adventure book Frank on the Prairie with some extraordinary enhancements. Actually, the volume already belonged to Austin, and his Uncle Charlie had borrowed it to add to its pages a series of original illustrations. This new facsimile edition of that copy, among the rarest of rare books, features little-known works of art by the artist.
The prolific author of the novel Frank on the Prairie, Charles Austin Fosdick (1842–1915), who went by the pen name Harry Castlemon, was one of Russell’s favorite storytellers. Castlemon’s book, which first appeared in 1868 as part of the Gunboat Series of Books for Boys, recounts the adventures of young Frank and his friend Archie as they travel across the Old West. Clearly inspired by the story line, Russell produced eleven watercolors for his nephew’s 1893 copy. They are beautifully reproduced here in full color, along with a single pencil sketch of mounted horsemen departing a fort.
As Montana art collector Thomas Minckler explains in his essay, the extra-illustrated Frank on the Prairie displays the full range of Russell’s signature subjects and themes: the regal American Indian, a pitched Indian battle of counting coup, the fur trader, an iconic buffalo hunt, the outlaw, a nighttime camp scene, a tomahawk peace pipe, and a herd of wild horses. All of these images, meticulously drawn and painted, are replicated in this facsimile version exactly as they first appeared in Austin’s personal copy of the book.
Frank on the Prairie was only one of a handful of books to which Russell added illustrations during his career. It is one of even fewer to contain watercolors. Showcasing Russell’s artistry and his perspective on the American West, the volume is, in Minckler’s words, “one of Russell’s most personalized works of art.”
(This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)
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Harry Castlemon (Charles Austin Fosdick): Complete Works (illustrated): Eleven Books And illustrations Included
(This kindle edition is eleven books collection written by...)
This kindle edition is eleven books collection written by Harry Castlemon.
Works Included:
The Boy Trapper
Elam Storm, The Wolfer
Frank Among The Rancheros
Frank On A Gun-Boat
Frank On The Lower Mississippi
Frank, The Young Naturalist
George At The Fort
Marcy The Blockade Runner
Marcy The Refugee
No Moss
True To His Colors
About Author:
Charles Austin Fosdick (September 6, 1842 – August 22, 1915), better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron.1 Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden age of children's literature.
(This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of th...)
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(The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" is the firs...)
The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" is the first part of the 'Boy Trapper' series, written and published by Charles Austin Fosdick (1842–1915) in 1877, using his pen name Harry Castlemon.
The Buried Treasure (Harry Castlemon) (Literary Thoughts Edition)
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The Buried Treasur...)
Literary Thoughts edition
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The Buried Treasure
by Harry Castlemon
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Published in 1877, The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt" is the first part of the 'Boy Trapper' series, written by Charles Austin Fosdick (1842–1915), using his pen name Harry Castlemon.
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Julian Mortimer, or: a brave boy's struggle for home and fortune by Harry Castlemon
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Julian Mortimer, or: a brave boy's struggle for home and fortune, was written in the 1870s by the American author Charles Auston Fosdick, better known by his pseudonym Harry Castlemon.
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Charles Austin Fosdick, better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys.
Background
Charles A. Fosdick was born on September 16, 1842, in Randolph, New York, the son of John Spencer Fosdick by his first wife, Eunice Andrews. While he was still a baby the family moved to Buffalo, where his father was principal of a public school.
Education
Charles Fosdick attended the Central High School. One day his composition teacher remarked casually that it was possible that some of the boys in the class might later earn their living by writing. Years afterward Fosdick recalled the incident and believed that his ambition to become a writer had been awakened by it.
Career
When the Civil War broke out Fosdick went to Cairo, Illinois, and enlisted as a landsman in the Mississippi Squadron. He served on gunboats patrolling the great river, saw the bombardment of Vicksburg as well as minor engagements, and was steadily promoted until at last he was made superintendent of coal for the squadron. These years on the Mississippi were his preparation for authorship. Although his later books deal with regions and adventures unknown to him at first-hand, his earlier ones are filled with reminiscences, adaptations, and enlargements of his own experiences.
When the war on the river ended and Fosdick was once more free, he secured a position as clerk in a store at Villa Ridge, Illinois, about ten miles north of Cairo, and in his spare time labored over his writing. His first book, Frank, the Young Naturalist (1864) was so successful that Fosdick proceeded to take his hero, Frank Nelson, through the adventures in which he himself had participated on a gunboat, in the woods, before Vicksburg, on the lower Mississippi, and on the prairie. To a generation of youngsters whose fathers had fought in the Civil War, these books made an irresistible appeal with their brisk, unadorned narrative, their exemplification of manly virtues in place of the namby-pamby of the Rollo books, their air of reality, and their full-blooded Northern patriotism.
Fosdick usually wrote his books in series of three or six, each story in itself complete but temptingly baited with allusions to previous and subsequent adventures of its hero and his friends. Among them were a Gunboat, a Rocky Mountain, a Sportsman’s Club, a Frank Nelson, a Boy Trapper, a Roughing It, a Rod and Gun, a Go-Ahead, a War, a Houseboat, an Afloat and Ashore, and a Pony Express series — names that suggest Fosdick’s relation to Fenimore Cooper, the Davy Crockett legend, and the American cult of the outdoors. Though a diligent and rather careful writer, he made no large profit on his books, which he appears to have sold to his publishers for a lump sum.
From 1875 Fosdick lived in Westfield, New York. His wife acted as his copyist and proof-reader and helped him in numerous other ways; when she died in 1904 he gave up writing, traveled a little, and spent his last years with his son in Hamburg, New York. Charles A. Fosdick died on August 22, 1915, in Hamburg, New York.