Corners rubbed, slightly bumped. Light shelf slant. Light toning of the pages. Colors are bright on the stamped boards, pictorial end papers. Back strip, bumped with some loss of color at the crimps. Presentation script on the FFEP dated 1902 for good attendance. Intriguing plates.

Edward S. Ellis is the author of fifteen adventure series for boys, but this one is not appearing in Mattson, but then only three of the fifteen series he penned are listed in that bibliography. Almost all of the books appear in sets of three, and all are set in the frontier west involving native American and white settler boys. He is also credited with several non-fiction histories of the same eras for a similar audience as well as rather rare book of Masonic stories.

The book is solid, with good illustrations throughout. It should be noted that John C Winston is credited with publishing many of the same books by Ellis as Porter & Coates. Winston purchased Coates in 1904, and with it all copyright and back lists.

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