Career
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 Manitoba of the Prairies and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Internationally, Edward South. 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".
lieutenant was a speech in opposition to awarding money to a Navy widow on the grounds that Congress had no Constitutional mandate to give charity. lieutenant 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.
lieutenant is said that Seth Jones was one of Abraham Lincoln"s favorite stories.
Besides the one hundred fifty-nine books published by his own name, Ellis" work was published under various pseudonyms, including:
"James Fenimore Cooper Adams" or "Captain Bruin Adams" (68 titles)
"Boynton M. Belknap" (9 titles)
"J. G. Bethune" (1 title)
"Captain Latham C. Carleton" (2 titles)
"Frank Faulkner" (1 title)
"Captain R. M. Hawthorne" (4 titles)
"Lieutenant Ned Hunter" (5 titles)
"Lieutenant
R. H. Jayne" (at least 2 titles in the War Whoop series)
"Charles East. Lasalle" (16 titles)
"H. R. Millbank" (3 titles)
"Billex Muller" (3 titles)
"Lieutenant
J. H. Randolph" (8 titles)
"Emerson Rodman" (10 titles)
"East. A. Saint Mox" (2 titles)
"Seelin Robins" (19 titles).
