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Thomas Mayne Reid

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Thomas Mayne Reid (4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was an Irish-American novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson, and set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron.

Thomas Mayne Reid
Thomas Mayne Reid, c. 1850
Born4 April 1818 (1818-04-04)
Ballyroney, County Down, Ireland
Died22 October 1883 (1883-10-23) (aged 65)
London, England
OccupationNovelist
GenreAdventure
Signature
Mr. and Mrs. Mayne Reid

Biography

Early years

Reid was born in Ballyroney, a hamlet near Katesbridge, County Down, in present day Northern Ireland, the son of Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid Sr., who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister, and in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He stayed for four years, but lacked motivation to complete his studies and graduate. He headed back to Ballyroney to teach at a school.

In December 1839 Reid boarded the Dumfriesshire, bound for New Orleans, Louisiana, arriving in January 1840 and soon finding a job as a corn factor's clerk in the corn market. After six months in New Orleans, he is said to have left for refusing to whip slaves. Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his successful books, an anti-slavery novel entitled The Quadroon.

Reid then travelled to Tennessee, where on a plantation near Nashville he tutored the children of Dr. Peyton Robertson. Some twenty years later, Reid would make mid-Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress. After Robertson's death, Reid founded a short-lived school in Nashville. In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez, Mississippi, or Natchitoches, Louisiana (the latter seems likelier). Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips West in this period, on which he purportedly based some of his novels, the evidence for this is sketchy and confusing at best.

Literary career

In late 1842 Reid arrived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he began writing prose and poetry for the Pittsburgh Morning Chronicle under a pen-name, the Poor Scholar. He also apparently worked as a carrier for the paper. His earliest verifiable work is a series of epic poems called Scenes in the West Indies.

In early 1843, Reid moved to Philadelphia for three years, working as a journalist and periodically publishing poetry in Godey's Lady's Book, Graham's Magazine, the Ladies National Magazine and elsewhere, still using his Pittsburgh pseudonym. There he met Edgar Allan Poe, who became a drinking companion for a time.[1] Poe would later call Reid "a colossal but most picturesque liar. He fibs on a surprising scale but with the finish of an artist, and that is why I listen to him attentively."[2]

When the Mexican–American War began in the spring of 1846, Reid worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald in Newport, Rhode Island, which would likewise be the setting for a novel. At the time added the pen-name Ecolier to the Poor Scholar.

On 23 November 1846, Reid joined the First New York Volunteer Infantry as a second lieutenant, leaving by ship with the regiment in January 1847. They camped for several weeks at Lobos Island before joining Major General Winfield Scott's invasion of Central Mexico, which began on 9 March at Vera Cruz. Reid as Ecolier was a correspondent for a New York paper, Spirit of the Times, which published his Sketches by a Skirmisher. On 13 September, at the Battle of Chapultepec, Reid received a severe thigh wound while leading a charge. He was afterward promoted to first lieutenant for bravery in battle. On 5 May 1848 he resigned his commission and in July returned to New York with his regiment.

Love's Martyr, Reid's first play, was staged at the Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia, for five nights in October 1848. He published War Life, an account of his army service, on 27 June 1849.

Learning of the Bavarian Revolution, Reid headed for England to volunteer, but after the Atlantic crossing changed his mind and went home to Ireland instead. He soon moved to London and in 1850 published his first novel, The Rifle Rangers. This was followed by The Scalp Hunters (1851; dedicated to Commodore Edwin W. Moore, whom he met in 1841), The Desert Home (1852), and The Boy Hunters (1853). The last, set in Texas and Louisiana, was a "juvenile scientific travelogue" that become a favourite with young Theodore Roosevelt, who became a Reid fan. That year Reid married 15-year-old Elizabeth Hyde, daughter of his publisher, G. W. Hyde, an English aristocrat.

After time off with his new bride, Reid returned to writing. He continued to base his novels on his adventures in America. Several more were successful: The White Chief (1855), The Quadroon (1856), Osceola (1858) and The Headless Horseman (1865). He spent money freely, including building in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, a sprawling "Rancho", a reproduction of a Mexican hacienda he had seen during the Mexican–American War, where he took to farming. This extravagance led to bankruptcy in November 1866, from which he was discharged in January 1867. That October he left London for Newport, Rhode Island, hoping to repeat his past success in the U.S.. He went back to New York in 1867 and founded the Onward Magazine there.[3]

Last years

Reid lectured at Steinway Hall in New York and published the novel The Helpless Hand in 1868, but America proved less kind than earlier. His wound at Chapultepec started to bother him and he was hospitalized for several months at St Luke in 1870. His wife hated America. After his hospital discharge they returned to England on 22 October 1870, to live at Ross on Wye, Herefordshire.

Reid continued to write stories in England and reworked some earlier novels. "The Death Shot" was published in the Penny Illustrated Paper. In October 1874, an abscess formed on the knee of his wounded leg, leaving him unable to walk without crutches. He was joint editor with John Latey of The Boys' Illustrated News for ten months from 6 April 1881 and wrote for it "The Lost Mountain; a Tale of Sonora." About this time Reid's invention began to flag and he lost popularity, so that he turned to farming near Ross in Herefordshire, although he continued to write. His last novel, No Quarter, set in the Parliamentary wars, and his last boys' book, The Land of Fire, were published after his death on 22 October 1883.[4] He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, now part of London. His tombstone quotes from The Scalp Hunters: "This is 'weed prairie'; it is misnamed: It is the Garden of God."[5]

Influence and legacy

 
Capt. Mayne Reid, from an oil portrait, circa 1863

Books such as the Young Voyagers had great popularity, especially with boys. His tales of the American West were also popular with children across Europe and Russia. Many became popular in Polish or Russian translation, including The Rifle Rangers (1850), Scalp Hunters (1851), Boy Hunters (1853), War Trail (1851), Boy Tar (1859), and Headless Horseman (1865/6).[3] Vladimir Nabokov recalled The Headless Horseman as a favourite adventure novel of his childhood years – "which had given him a vision of the prairies and the great open spaces and the overarching sky."[6] At 11, Nabokov even translated The Headless Horseman into French alexandrines.[7] Alexander Bek mentions the well-read K. K. Rokossovky, future Marshal of the Soviet Union, referring to Reid's work in early 1942.[8] The Polish writer Czesław Miłosz cites Russian translations of Reid as well-remembered early reading matter, which allowed him to learn Russian and the Cyrillic alphabet. A chapter on Reid appears in his essay collection Emperor of the Earth (1976). Anton Chekhov in Island, a Journey to Sakhalin (1893–94) mentions "Mayne Reid" in Chapter 10: "The morose, angry sea has spread itself boundlessly for thousands of versts. When a little boy has been reading Mayne Reid and his blanket falls off during the night, he starts shivering, and it is than that he dreams of such a sea."

United States President Theodore Roosevelt, in his autobiography, credits Reid with being a major early inspiration. The shy, asthmatic aristocrat, Teddy Roosevelt, would grow up to pursue naturalistic zoology and adventure travel. Russell Miller, in his biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, credits Reid as one of Conan Doyle's favourite childhood authors and a great influence on his writings.

Although Reid called himself and is listed often as Captain, Francis B. Heitman's definitive Historical Register and Dictionary of the U.S. Army only shows him as a lieutenant.

Bibliography

Reid wrote about 75 novels and many short stories and sketches.[9]

  • The Rifle Rangers; or, Adventures in Southern Mexico (1850)
  • The Scalp Hunters: A Romance of the Plain (1851)
  • The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness (1851)
  • The Forest Exiles; or, The Perils of a Peruvian Family Amid the Wilds of the Amazon (1852)
  • The White Chief; A Legend of North Mexico (1855)
  • The Boy Hunters, or, Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo (1853)
  • The Hunter's Feast; or, Conversations Around the Camp-fire (1856)
  • The Bush Boys: History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and His Family (1856)
  • The Quadroon: or, A Lover's Adventures in Louisiana: in 3 volumes (1856)
  • The War-trail: or, The Hunt of the Wild Horse; a Romance of the Prairie (1857)
  • The Young Yagers, or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa (1857)[10][11]
  • The Plant Hunters; or, Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains (1858)
  • Osceola the Seminole, or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land (1858)
  • Wild Life; or, Adventures on the Frontier (1859)
  • Odd People; or, Singular Races of Man (1860)
  • The Lone Ranch (1860)
  • The Scalp Hunters (1860)
  • Bruin: The Great Bear Hunt (1860)
  • The Lone Ranch: A Tale of the Staked Plain (1860)
  • The Wild Huntress; or, The Big Squatter's Vengeance (1861)
  • The Maroon: A Tale of Voodoo and Obeah (1862)
  • Croquet (1863)
  • The Cliff Climbers (1864)[12]
  • The Boy Slaves (1865)
  • The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea (Ticknor and Fields, 1865)[13]
  • The Headless Horseman (1866)
  • The Giraffe Hunters (1867)
  • Afloat in The Forest; or A Voyage Among the Tree-Tops (1867)
  • The White Squaw (1868)
  • The Headless Horseman: A Strange Story of Texas (1868)
  • The Helpless Hand: A Tale of Backwoods Retribution (1868)
  • The Planter Pirate: A Souvenir of Mississippi (1868)
  • "The Child Wife: A Tale of Two Worlds" (1869)
  • The Yellow Chief: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains (1869)
  • The Fatal Cord (1869)
  • The Castaways: A Story of Adventure in the Wilds of Borneo (1870)
  • The Vee-Boers: A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa (1870)
  • The Finger of Fate (1872)
  • The Death Shot; or, Tracked to Death (1873)
  • The Cuban Patriot, or, The Beautiful Creole: An Episode of the Cuban Revolution (1873)
  • The Death Shot (1874)
  • The Giraffe Hunters (1876)
  • The Flag of Distress, or A Story of the South Sea (1876)
  • Gwen Wynn; A Romance of the Wye (1877)
  • The Man-Eaters (1878)
  • The Specter Barque: A Tale of the Pacific (1879)
  • The Captain of the Rifles; or, The Queen of the Lakes: A Romance of the Mexican Valley (1879)
  • The Land Pirates, or, The League of Devil's Island: A Tale of the Mississippi (1879)
  • The Ocean Hunters, or, The Chase of the Leviathan: A Romance of Perilous Adventure (1881)
  • Blue Dick, or, The Yellow Chief's Vengeance: A Romance of the Rocky Mountains (1883)
  • The Hunters' Feast (serial 1854, book 1883)
  • Gaspar, the Gaucho, or, Lost on the Pampas: A Tale of the Gran Chaco (1883)
  • The Island Pirate: A Tale of the Mississippi (1884)
  • The Land of Fire: A Tale of Adventure (1885)
  • The Lost Mountain: A Tale of Sonora (1885)
  • The Free Lances: A Romance of the Mexican Valley (1888)
  • The Tiger Hunter: A Hero in Spite of Himself (1889)
  • No Quarter! (1890)
  • The White Gauntlet (1892)
  • The Guerilla Chief and Other Tales
  • The Bandolero, A Marriage among the Mountains
  • The Boy Tar
  • The Child Wife
  • Ran Away to Sea (1857 : George Routledge and Sons)([14]
  • Wood Rangers: The Trappers of Sonora
  • The Young Voyageurs: Boy Hunters in the North (1854)

References

  1. ^ Jeffrey Meyers, Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy. Cooper Square Press, 1992. p. 142. ISBN 0-8154-1038-7
  2. ^ Howard Paul, Munsey's Magazine, August 1892, p. 555.
  3. ^ a b Open Source Books. Internet Archive. Accessed 14 July 2007.
  4. ^ 'Reid, Captain Mayne', Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project, Northern Illinois University Libraries
  5. ^ Reid, Thomas Mayne (1818–1883), Thomas W. Cutrer, Texas State Historical Association
  6. ^ CLASSICS ON CASSETTE: 'SPEAK, MEMORY'. John Espey. Los Angeles Times Book Review, p. 8; Book Review Desk. 20 October 1991.
  7. ^ Artist as Precocious Young Man. Rutherford A. Sunday Herald 30 December 1990.
  8. ^ Quoted from Bek's Strikhi (Strokes) in Dr. Boris Sokolov, Marshal K. K. Rokossovsky, translated and edited by Stuart Britton, Helion & Co., Ltd., Solihull, UK, 2015, p. 167.
  9. ^ "Reid, Captain Mayne" Bio at the Northern Illinois University Libraries
  10. ^ "Reid, Mayne - the Young Yägers, or, A narrative of hunting adventures in Southern Africa / By Captain Mayne Reid ; with twelve illustrations by William Harvey".
  11. ^ "The Young Yägers, Or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa". Ticknor and Fields. 1857.
  12. ^ "The Cliff Climbers". 1864.
  13. ^ Reid, Mayne (1865). "The Ocean Waifs: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea".
  14. ^ "Ran Away to Sea". 1857.

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For other people named Thomas Reid see Thomas Reid disambiguation Thomas Mayne Reid 4 April 1818 22 October 1883 was an Irish American novelist who fought in the Mexican American War 1846 1848 His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies the horrors of slave labour and the lives of American Indians Captain Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson and set mainly in the American West Mexico South Africa the Himalayas and Jamaica He was an admirer of Lord Byron Thomas Mayne ReidThomas Mayne Reid c 1850Born4 April 1818 1818 04 04 Ballyroney County Down IrelandDied22 October 1883 1883 10 23 aged 65 London EnglandOccupationNovelistGenreAdventureSignatureMr and Mrs Mayne Reid Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early years 1 2 Literary career 1 3 Last years 2 Influence and legacy 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External linksBiography EditEarly years Edit Reid was born in Ballyroney a hamlet near Katesbridge County Down in present day Northern Ireland the son of Rev Thomas Mayne Reid Sr who was a senior clerk of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland His father wanted him to become a Presbyterian minister and in September 1834 he enrolled at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution He stayed for four years but lacked motivation to complete his studies and graduate He headed back to Ballyroney to teach at a school In December 1839 Reid boarded the Dumfriesshire bound for New Orleans Louisiana arriving in January 1840 and soon finding a job as a corn factor s clerk in the corn market After six months in New Orleans he is said to have left for refusing to whip slaves Reid later used Louisiana as the setting of one of his successful books an anti slavery novel entitled The Quadroon Reid then travelled to Tennessee where on a plantation near Nashville he tutored the children of Dr Peyton Robertson Some twenty years later Reid would make mid Tennessee the setting for his novel The Wild Huntress After Robertson s death Reid founded a short lived school in Nashville In 1841 he found work as a clerk for a provision dealer in either Natchez Mississippi or Natchitoches Louisiana the latter seems likelier Although Reid later claimed to have made several trips West in this period on which he purportedly based some of his novels the evidence for this is sketchy and confusing at best Literary career Edit In late 1842 Reid arrived in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where he began writing prose and poetry for the Pittsburgh Morning Chronicle under a pen name the Poor Scholar He also apparently worked as a carrier for the paper His earliest verifiable work is a series of epic poems called Scenes in the West Indies In early 1843 Reid moved to Philadelphia for three years working as a journalist and periodically publishing poetry in Godey s Lady s Book Graham s Magazine the Ladies National Magazine and elsewhere still using his Pittsburgh pseudonym There he met Edgar Allan Poe who became a drinking companion for a time 1 Poe would later call Reid a colossal but most picturesque liar He fibs on a surprising scale but with the finish of an artist and that is why I listen to him attentively 2 When the Mexican American War began in the spring of 1846 Reid worked as a correspondent for the New York Herald in Newport Rhode Island which would likewise be the setting for a novel At the time added the pen name Ecolier to the Poor Scholar On 23 November 1846 Reid joined the First New York Volunteer Infantry as a second lieutenant leaving by ship with the regiment in January 1847 They camped for several weeks at Lobos Island before joining Major General Winfield Scott s invasion of Central Mexico which began on 9 March at Vera Cruz Reid as Ecolier was a correspondent for a New York paper Spirit of the Times which published his Sketches by a Skirmisher On 13 September at the Battle of Chapultepec Reid received a severe thigh wound while leading a charge He was afterward promoted to first lieutenant for bravery in battle On 5 May 1848 he resigned his commission and in July returned to New York with his regiment Love s Martyr Reid s first play was staged at the Walnut Street Theater Philadelphia for five nights in October 1848 He published War Life an account of his army service on 27 June 1849 Learning of the Bavarian Revolution Reid headed for England to volunteer but after the Atlantic crossing changed his mind and went home to Ireland instead He soon moved to London and in 1850 published his first novel The Rifle Rangers This was followed by The Scalp Hunters 1851 dedicated to Commodore Edwin W Moore whom he met in 1841 The Desert Home 1852 and The Boy Hunters 1853 The last set in Texas and Louisiana was a juvenile scientific travelogue that become a favourite with young Theodore Roosevelt who became a Reid fan That year Reid married 15 year old Elizabeth Hyde daughter of his publisher G W Hyde an English aristocrat After time off with his new bride Reid returned to writing He continued to base his novels on his adventures in America Several more were successful The White Chief 1855 The Quadroon 1856 Osceola 1858 and The Headless Horseman 1865 He spent money freely including building in Gerrards Cross Buckinghamshire a sprawling Rancho a reproduction of a Mexican hacienda he had seen during the Mexican American War where he took to farming This extravagance led to bankruptcy in November 1866 from which he was discharged in January 1867 That October he left London for Newport Rhode Island hoping to repeat his past success in the U S He went back to New York in 1867 and founded the Onward Magazine there 3 Last years Edit Reid lectured at Steinway Hall in New York and published the novel The Helpless Hand in 1868 but America proved less kind than earlier His wound at Chapultepec started to bother him and he was hospitalized for several months at St Luke in 1870 His wife hated America After his hospital discharge they returned to England on 22 October 1870 to live at Ross on Wye Herefordshire Reid continued to write stories in England and reworked some earlier novels The Death Shot was published in the Penny Illustrated Paper In October 1874 an abscess formed on the knee of his wounded leg leaving him unable to walk without crutches He was joint editor with John Latey of The Boys Illustrated News for ten months from 6 April 1881 and wrote for it The Lost Mountain a Tale of Sonora About this time Reid s invention began to flag and he lost popularity so that he turned to farming near Ross in Herefordshire although he continued to write His last novel No Quarter set in the Parliamentary wars and his last boys book The Land of Fire were published after his death on 22 October 1883 4 He was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery now part of London His tombstone quotes from The Scalp Hunters This is weed prairie it is misnamed It is the Garden of God 5 Influence and legacy Edit Capt Mayne Reid from an oil portrait circa 1863 Books such as the Young Voyagers had great popularity especially with boys His tales of the American West were also popular with children across Europe and Russia Many became popular in Polish or Russian translation including The Rifle Rangers 1850 Scalp Hunters 1851 Boy Hunters 1853 War Trail 1851 Boy Tar 1859 and Headless Horseman 1865 6 3 Vladimir Nabokov recalled The Headless Horseman as a favourite adventure novel of his childhood years which had given him a vision of the prairies and the great open spaces and the overarching sky 6 At 11 Nabokov even translated The Headless Horseman into French alexandrines 7 Alexander Bek mentions the well read K K Rokossovky future Marshal of the Soviet Union referring to Reid s work in early 1942 8 The Polish writer Czeslaw Milosz cites Russian translations of Reid as well remembered early reading matter which allowed him to learn Russian and the Cyrillic alphabet A chapter on Reid appears in his essay collection Emperor of the Earth 1976 Anton Chekhov in Island a Journey to Sakhalin 1893 94 mentions Mayne Reid in Chapter 10 The morose angry sea has spread itself boundlessly for thousands of versts When a little boy has been reading Mayne Reid and his blanket falls off during the night he starts shivering and it is than that he dreams of such a sea United States President Theodore Roosevelt in his autobiography credits Reid with being a major early inspiration The shy asthmatic aristocrat Teddy Roosevelt would grow up to pursue naturalistic zoology and adventure travel Russell Miller in his biography of Arthur Conan Doyle credits Reid as one of Conan Doyle s favourite childhood authors and a great influence on his writings Although Reid called himself and is listed often as Captain Francis B Heitman s definitive Historical Register and Dictionary of the U S Army only shows him as a lieutenant Bibliography EditReid wrote about 75 novels and many short stories and sketches 9 This list is incomplete you can help by adding missing items August 2017 The Rifle Rangers or Adventures in Southern Mexico 1850 The Scalp Hunters A Romance of the Plain 1851 The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness 1851 The Forest Exiles or The Perils of a Peruvian Family Amid the Wilds of the Amazon 1852 The White Chief A Legend of North Mexico 1855 The Boy Hunters or Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo 1853 The Hunter s Feast or Conversations Around the Camp fire 1856 The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and His Family 1856 The Quadroon or A Lover s Adventures in Louisiana in 3 volumes 1856 The War trail or The Hunt of the Wild Horse a Romance of the Prairie 1857 The Young Yagers or A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 1857 10 11 The Plant Hunters or Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains 1858 Osceola the Seminole or The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 1858 Wild Life or Adventures on the Frontier 1859 Odd People or Singular Races of Man 1860 The Lone Ranch 1860 The Scalp Hunters 1860 Bruin The Great Bear Hunt 1860 The Lone Ranch A Tale of the Staked Plain 1860 The Wild Huntress or The Big Squatter s Vengeance 1861 The Maroon A Tale of Voodoo and Obeah 1862 Croquet 1863 The Cliff Climbers 1864 12 The Boy Slaves 1865 The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Ticknor and Fields 1865 13 The Headless Horseman 1866 The Giraffe Hunters 1867 Afloat in The Forest or A Voyage Among the Tree Tops 1867 The White Squaw 1868 The Headless Horseman A Strange Story of Texas 1868 The Helpless Hand A Tale of Backwoods Retribution 1868 The Planter Pirate A Souvenir of Mississippi 1868 The Child Wife A Tale of Two Worlds 1869 The Yellow Chief A Romance of the Rocky Mountains 1869 The Fatal Cord 1869 The Castaways A Story of Adventure in the Wilds of Borneo 1870 The Vee Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 1870 The Finger of Fate 1872 The Death Shot or Tracked to Death 1873 The Cuban Patriot or The Beautiful Creole An Episode of the Cuban Revolution 1873 The Death Shot 1874 The Giraffe Hunters 1876 The Flag of Distress or A Story of the South Sea 1876 Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 1877 The Man Eaters 1878 The Specter Barque A Tale of the Pacific 1879 The Captain of the Rifles or The Queen of the Lakes A Romance of the Mexican Valley 1879 The Land Pirates or The League of Devil s Island A Tale of the Mississippi 1879 The Ocean Hunters or The Chase of the Leviathan A Romance of Perilous Adventure 1881 Blue Dick or The Yellow Chief s Vengeance A Romance of the Rocky Mountains 1883 The Hunters Feast serial 1854 book 1883 Gaspar the Gaucho or Lost on the Pampas A Tale of the Gran Chaco 1883 The Island Pirate A Tale of the Mississippi 1884 The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure 1885 The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 1885 The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley 1888 The Tiger Hunter A Hero in Spite of Himself 1889 No Quarter 1890 The White Gauntlet 1892 The Guerilla Chief and Other Tales The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains The Boy Tar The Child Wife Ran Away to Sea 1857 George Routledge and Sons 14 Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North 1854 References Edit Jeffrey Meyers Edgar Allan Poe His Life and Legacy Cooper Square Press 1992 p 142 ISBN 0 8154 1038 7 Howard Paul Munsey s Magazine August 1892 p 555 a b Open Source Books Internet Archive Accessed 14 July 2007 Reid Captain Mayne Beadle and Adams Dime Novel Digitization Project Northern Illinois University Libraries Reid Thomas Mayne 1818 1883 Thomas W Cutrer Texas State Historical Association CLASSICS ON CASSETTE SPEAK MEMORY John Espey Los Angeles Times Book Review p 8 Book Review Desk 20 October 1991 Artist as Precocious Young Man Rutherford A Sunday Herald 30 December 1990 Quoted from Bek s Strikhi Strokes in Dr Boris Sokolov Marshal K K Rokossovsky translated and edited by Stuart Britton Helion amp Co Ltd Solihull UK 2015 p 167 Reid Captain Mayne Bio at the Northern Illinois University Libraries Reid Mayne the Young Yagers or A narrative of hunting adventures in Southern Africa By Captain Mayne Reid with twelve illustrations by William Harvey The Young Yagers Or A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa Ticknor and Fields 1857 The Cliff Climbers 1864 Reid Mayne 1865 The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Ran Away to Sea 1857 External links Edit Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thomas Mayne Reid Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica article Reid Thomas Mayne Resources Reid Captain Mayne Bio at the Northern Illinois University Libraries Captain Thomas Mayne Reid Bio and selected free ebooks at Athelstane Mayne Reid Manuscripts c 1866 U of North Carolina Greensboro Thomas Mayne Reid from the Handbook of Texas Online Literary History American West PDF 8 7mb at Texas Christian UniversitySources Works by Thomas Mayne Reid at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Mayne Reid at Internet Archive Works by Thomas Mayne Reid at LibriVox public 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