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Alfred Henry Lewis was born on January 20, 1855 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, the son of Isaac J. Lewis, a carpenter, and his wife, Harriet Tracy.
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Alfred Henry Lewis was a Chicago journalist in the late 19th century and early 20th century, and though he would become an editor of the local paper, he's perhaps best known today for the Western novels he wrote. This is an anti-Mormon screed that Lewis wrote in the early 20th century that depicts the religion from the eyes of a former adherent who left the church.
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Alfred Henry Lewis (January 20, 1855 – December 23, 1914) was an American investigative journalist, lawyer, novelist, editor, and short story writer. He began his career as a staff writer at the Chicago Times, and eventually became editor of the Chicago Times-Herald. During the late 19th century, he wrote muckraker articles for Cosmopolitan. As an investigative journalist, Lewis wrote extensively about corruption in New York politics. This was the subject of his book The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York, which focused on the Tammany Hall society of the 18th century. He also wrote biographies of Irish-American politician Richard Croker (1843–1922), and of Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), seventh President of the United States. As a writer of genre fiction, his most successful works were in his Wolfville series of Western fiction, which he continued writing until he died of gastrointestinal disease in 1914. The Works of Alfred Henry Lewis: The edition comes with five books, active table of contents, illustrations, and active navigation. Included Works: Faro Nell And Her Friends How The Raven Died The President Wolfville Nights The Mormon Menace
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Alfred Henry Lewis was born on January 20, 1855 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, the son of Isaac J. Lewis, a carpenter, and his wife, Harriet Tracy.
Lewis was admitted to the bar as soon as he came of age, hung out his shingle, dabbled in politics while waiting for clients, and served as prosecuting attorney, 1880-1881, in the city police court. Then with his family he went West, and for the next few years he was a hobo cowboy. He worked on the ranches of Senator S. W. Dorsey and Col. O. M. Oviatt in Meade County, Kansas, in the Cimarron country, helped drive cattle to Dodge City and other shipping points, rode down into the Texas Panhandle, gained a little newspaper experience of a kind in New Mexico on the Las Vegas Optic, and wandered into southeastern Arizona. It was a happy, carefree period, but by 1885 he was living once more with his parents in Kansas City, Missouri, and was trying to build up a law practice. Clients were few and far apart, and in his leisure he turned again to politics and journalism.
One of his brothers was city editor of the Kansas City Times, and in 1890 Lewis contributed to it an imaginary interview with an old cattleman domiciled at the St. James' Hotel. The story was copied far and wide; Lewis had not received a dollar for it, but for his next "Old Cattleman" story he was paid $360. He joined the staff of the Kansas City Star, was sent to Washington the next year as correspondent of the Chicago Times, and when that paper died in 1894 became head of William Randolph Hearst's Washington bureau. His political articles were trenchant and partisan, often bitter; he was regarded as one of Hearst's ablest men.
For the last sixteen or seventeen years of his life he lived in New York, devoting himself to writing magazine articles and fiction for the Hearst magazines, chiefly for the Cosmopolitan. From December 19, 1898, to November 12, 1900, he edited a weekly Democratic sheet, the Verdict, which was sponsored by O. H. P. Belmont. Most of his work was strictly ephemeral--fictionized biographies of John Paul Jones (1906), Andrew Jackson (1907), and Aaron Burr (1908); novels of political life such as The Boss (1903) and The President (1904); stories of the police and the underworld such as Confessions of a Detective (1906) and The Apaches of New York (1912). He also published: Wolfville (1897); Sandburrs (1900); Wolfville Days (1902); Wolfville Nights (1902); Wolfville Folks (1908); and Faro Nell and her Friends (1913). At the time of their publication they were immensely popular. They are all put into the mouth of the "Old Cattleman, " a gentleman of infinite leisure, a tolerant philosophy, and a language all his own. Though containing little that is original, they belong to the best tradition of American humorous storytelling. Probably thousands of readers have been disappointed to find that Wolfville and its rival settlement of Red Dog are not on the map of Arizona, so real do they become in the discursive, drawling reminiscences of the "Old Cattleman. " Lewis himself had many of the qualities of this, his chief character. He died in New York after a short illness.
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Lewis was married to Alice Ewing of Richfield, Ohio.