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Contributor(s): Reid, Captain Mayne (Author)
ISBN: 1508725764     ISBN-13: 9781508725763
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
OUR PRICE:   $23.98  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: March 1935
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BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Action & Adventure
Physical Information: 0.98" H x 6" W x 9" (1.42 lbs) 486 pages
 
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Captain Mayne Reid was born at Ballyroney, County Down, on the 4th April, 1818, and was the son of the Rev. Thomas Mayne Reid. Mayne Reid was educated with a view to the Church, but finding his inclinations opposed to this calling, he emigrated to America and arrived in New Orleans on January, 1840. After a varied career as plantation over-seer, school-master, and actor, with a number of expeditions in connection with hunting and Indian warfare, he settled down in 1843 as a journalist in Philadelphia, where he made the acquaintance of Edgar Allan Poe. Leaving Philadelphia in 1846, he spent the summer at Newport, Rhode Island, as the correspondent of the New York Herald, and in December of the same year, having obtained a commission as second lieutenant in the 1st New York Volunteers, he sailed for Vera Cruz to take part in the Mexican war. He behaved with conspicuous gallantry in many engagements, and was severely wounded and disabled at the storming of Chapultepec on the 13th September, 1847.