Through Apache Lands

The Young Hunters Series #4

by Edward Sylvester Ellis

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112 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1893

About the author

Edward Sylvester Ellis was an American author who was born in Ohio, and died at Cliff Island, Maine. He served as editor of Public Opinion (a daily newspaper), Golden Days and Holiday (both children's magazines). He specialized in boys' stories, inspirational biography, and history for both children and adults. He was a major author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels).

Besides books published under his own name, Ellis' work was published under various pseudonyms, including:

Captain James Fenimore Cooper "Bruin" Adams
Boynton M. Belknap
Captain Latham C. Carleton
Capt. R.M. Hawthorne
Lieut. Ned Hunter
Lieut. R.H. Jayne
Captain H.R. Millbank
Billex Muller
Lieut. J.H. Randolph
Seelin Robins
Emerson Rodman
E.A. St. Mox

Reviews

[Kevin Berry · Rating 1 out of 5]

Through Apache Lands tells the story of two brave buffalo hunters trekking through Apache lands to rescue a young boy from being captured by Apache Indians. The story is a quick read, a story aimed at the young boys of the 1800s.
Today, it isn't hard to see the outdated and backward thinking that fills many pages of this story. We have the two brave buffalo hunters that can do no wrong and through Providence, outgun, run, and fight hundreds of Apache. Then we have young Ned who goes through the Herculean tasks of the Wild West: he survives a vicious thunderstorm with no shelter, kills an Apache, kills a rattlesnake, kills and cleans a buffalo, has another shootout with Apache, defends his camp from and kills a bear by shooting it in the eye (at night), defends his camp yet again from a wolf (although they hunt in packs), out rides hundreds of Native Americans, and has a stand off against a hundred Apache on a hill.

Ellis pens a ridiculous, impossible tale of the White Man overcoming nature and Native Americans through the repetitive divine intervention of Providence. Written today, it would mire in stacks of self-published e-books floating through the internet.