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The Complete Ingersoll Lockwood Collection: 1900: or; The Last President & The Barron Trump Adventure Novels
Lockwood published the first novel, Travels and adventures of Little Baron Trump and his wonderful dog Bulger, in 1889, and its sequel, Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey, in 1893. The novels recount the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, who goes by "Baron Trump", as he discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump. 1900; or, The Last President is a dystopian story in which New York City is riven by protests following the shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election, who brings on the downfall of the American republic. These Ingersoll Lockwood classics were recently rediscovered by modern day audiences following the election of U.S. President Donald Trump, pointing out some uncanny similarities between the protagonist and Donald Trump, and his youngest son Barron Trump.
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Published March 6, 2021
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Ingersoll Lockwood
91 books95 followersIngersoll Lockwood was an American lawyer and writer. As a writer, he is particularly known today for his Baron Trump children's novels. He wrote other children's novels, the dystopian novel 1900: or; The Last President, a play, and several non-fiction works. He wrote some of his non-fiction under the pseudonym Irwin Longman.
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January 4, 2019
Didn't give her a five banger cuz of the prose now did I? Just that this time-traveling Jedi Knight Archivist wrote it down. Hell any friend of Tesla is a friend of mine. This is Tesla Shit, Fibonacci Shit whether anyone paid attention or not.
January 20, 2021
This is truly the weirdest book I have ever read. Not bad but a bizarre fairy tale for adults. There are three books in this collection. The first two are the travels of strange little baron and his dog. The language of that time (late 1800s) took some getting used too. Probably people who like Lord of the Rings would be fascinated. The last book in the collection is really a short story about how a possible End of our country might happen. In that story I was sure I was living in a time warp. I won’t recommend this but it was interesting.
August 15, 2020
The first two books in this collection follow the adventures of Little Baron Trump and his dog Bulger.
They sail the seas finding new places of discovery and new strange lands and people.
The tales often start with the autonomy of the new strange “world within a world”, and further moves on to its native inhabitants.
I enjoyed the detailed landscapes and obscure tactics Baron Trump had to take in order to live within the new confounds of these strange new lands.
The book often felt like I was re-reading the same tropes throughout, and by the third voyage, I grew bored of the same algorithmic story telling.
The third and final tale in the collection was the reason I was first interested in purchasing the book: ‘The Last President (or 1900)’.
This story follows the election and rise of a new president in the United States, who is battling the rising socialists and anarchists demands in reparations; fighting against riots; and against his own constituents, in proposing a fair and just step in the direction of their withered, and growing my unruly country.
Other than the prior comparisons that were purported in an article I read, concerning the current state of events in America today, which solely encouraged me to buy this book - I would not have enjoyed this book as much - and even with that in mind, it was just OK.
They sail the seas finding new places of discovery and new strange lands and people.
The tales often start with the autonomy of the new strange “world within a world”, and further moves on to its native inhabitants.
I enjoyed the detailed landscapes and obscure tactics Baron Trump had to take in order to live within the new confounds of these strange new lands.
The book often felt like I was re-reading the same tropes throughout, and by the third voyage, I grew bored of the same algorithmic story telling.
The third and final tale in the collection was the reason I was first interested in purchasing the book: ‘The Last President (or 1900)’.
This story follows the election and rise of a new president in the United States, who is battling the rising socialists and anarchists demands in reparations; fighting against riots; and against his own constituents, in proposing a fair and just step in the direction of their withered, and growing my unruly country.
Other than the prior comparisons that were purported in an article I read, concerning the current state of events in America today, which solely encouraged me to buy this book - I would not have enjoyed this book as much - and even with that in mind, it was just OK.
October 1, 2020
The more unreadable paragraphs I dragged myself through, the more I started to wonder if instead of this book being written by a man named Ingersoll Lockwood around 1900, it was written by a man named Doug or Alex wearing moldy boxer shorts and a ratty beard in the basement of his mother's house in an incoherent Reddit Thread or a Twitch stream.
September 22, 2021
Came for the conspiracy theory, stayed for the story. Tim Burton should look into doing this as a movie, had that dark adventure feel to it.
February 20, 2022
Greetings, my friend. We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future.
You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable.
That is why you are here.
And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty.
Let us reward the innocent.
My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?
In July 2017, the books were rediscovered by Internet forum users, and then by the media, who pointed out similarities between the protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Jaime Fuller wrote in Politico that Baron Trump is "precocious, restless, and prone to get in trouble."
He often mentions his massive brain, and has a personalized insult for most people he meets.
Fuller also notes that Baron Trump lives in a building named after himself, "Castle Trump"; while the real-life Donald Trump had lived in Trump Tower for decades.
Furthermore, Donald Trump's youngest son is named Barron Trump.
Chris Riotta noted in Newsweek that Baron Trump's adventures begin in Russia.
Riotta also mentioned another book of Lockwood's, 1900; or, The Last President, in which New York City is riven by protests following the shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election, who brings on the downfall of the American republic.
Chriswell Predicts!
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The novels recount the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, who goes by Baron Trump, as he discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump!
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“Vanity is the soil that rulers spring from, as the mushrooms spring from the rich loam of our dark caverns. They pretend that it is the exercise of power that they are so fond of. Believe them not. It is the gratification of their vanity and nothing else.”
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
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odd mutterings by the rabble
They are generous hosts until Trump starts a fire. The intrigued Wind Eaters draw near, and promptly explode after the air they have ingested expands thanks to the flames....the dog Bulger bites one of the Wind Eaters until he deflates like a punctured balloon.
The pair eventually escape, leaving the briefly betrothed Princess Pouf-fah without a mate...
and Queen Phew-yoo with many a funeral to plan.
“The simple-minded peasantry,” the narrator notes in Marvelous Underground Adventure, “came to look upon him as half-bigwig and half-magician.”
Like the real Trump, our fictional hero is skilled at inspiring nearly every person he meets to greet him with a personalized insult—including Little Man Lump, Little Man All Head...
What if, he wondered, Nicola Tesla had shared time travel research with Trump’s MIT-grad uncle, setting off a chain of events that led to both the 2016 election and the publication of these books...
Ingersoll also wrote a satirical novella titled 1900: Or the Last President, which begins on a Tuesday in November, “a terrible night for the great city of New York.” Anarchists and socialists have laid siege to a hotel on Fifth Avenue, screaming, “death to the rich man.”
In a few months, the president appoints a man named Pence to the cabinet. America seems to be crumbling.
Some people are convinced that Tom Clancy predicted 9/11. And regarding Donald Trump, it truly isn’t that hard to find coincidences that you could interpret as foreshadowing 2017 in the 19th century. I spent less than five minutes searching “Donald Trump” in the Library of Congress’s newspaper archive and found a headline from 1897 that read, “President Trump Will Preside.”
You are interested in the unknown, the mysterious, the unexplainable.
That is why you are here.
And now, for the first time, we are bringing to you the full story of what happened on that fateful day. We are bringing you all the evidence, based only on the secret testimony of the miserable souls who survived this terrifying ordeal.
The incidents, the places. My friend, we cannot keep this a secret any longer. Let us punish the guilty.
Let us reward the innocent.
My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?
In July 2017, the books were rediscovered by Internet forum users, and then by the media, who pointed out similarities between the protagonist and U.S. President Donald Trump.
Jaime Fuller wrote in Politico that Baron Trump is "precocious, restless, and prone to get in trouble."
He often mentions his massive brain, and has a personalized insult for most people he meets.
Fuller also notes that Baron Trump lives in a building named after himself, "Castle Trump"; while the real-life Donald Trump had lived in Trump Tower for decades.
Furthermore, Donald Trump's youngest son is named Barron Trump.
Chris Riotta noted in Newsweek that Baron Trump's adventures begin in Russia.
Riotta also mentioned another book of Lockwood's, 1900; or, The Last President, in which New York City is riven by protests following the shocking victory of a populist candidate in the 1896 presidential election, who brings on the downfall of the American republic.
Chriswell Predicts!
---
The novels recount the adventures of the German boy Wilhelm Heinrich Sebastian Von Troomp, who goes by Baron Trump, as he discovers weird underground civilizations, offends the natives, flees from his entanglements with local women, and repeats this pattern until arriving back home at Castle Trump!
---
“Vanity is the soil that rulers spring from, as the mushrooms spring from the rich loam of our dark caverns. They pretend that it is the exercise of power that they are so fond of. Believe them not. It is the gratification of their vanity and nothing else.”
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
---
odd mutterings by the rabble
They are generous hosts until Trump starts a fire. The intrigued Wind Eaters draw near, and promptly explode after the air they have ingested expands thanks to the flames....the dog Bulger bites one of the Wind Eaters until he deflates like a punctured balloon.
The pair eventually escape, leaving the briefly betrothed Princess Pouf-fah without a mate...
and Queen Phew-yoo with many a funeral to plan.
“The simple-minded peasantry,” the narrator notes in Marvelous Underground Adventure, “came to look upon him as half-bigwig and half-magician.”
Like the real Trump, our fictional hero is skilled at inspiring nearly every person he meets to greet him with a personalized insult—including Little Man Lump, Little Man All Head...
What if, he wondered, Nicola Tesla had shared time travel research with Trump’s MIT-grad uncle, setting off a chain of events that led to both the 2016 election and the publication of these books...
Ingersoll also wrote a satirical novella titled 1900: Or the Last President, which begins on a Tuesday in November, “a terrible night for the great city of New York.” Anarchists and socialists have laid siege to a hotel on Fifth Avenue, screaming, “death to the rich man.”
In a few months, the president appoints a man named Pence to the cabinet. America seems to be crumbling.
Some people are convinced that Tom Clancy predicted 9/11. And regarding Donald Trump, it truly isn’t that hard to find coincidences that you could interpret as foreshadowing 2017 in the 19th century. I spent less than five minutes searching “Donald Trump” in the Library of Congress’s newspaper archive and found a headline from 1897 that read, “President Trump Will Preside.”
December 20, 2020
So, there are three stories in this book. I immediately went to the last story to read "1900, Or the Last President." The story is very similar to the issues of current affairs. This story is tough to understand at times because of the way the English language was written or spoken in the 19th century. But you see the commonalities of the 19th century to our social and political issues of today. The President states "I stand alone." Ingersoll Lockwood shows a brief side of the realization that the President faces. "For the first he began to realize what an intense spirit of sectionalism had entered into this revolutionary propaganda."
This story is very timely and of course it's not a coincidence that I came across this book. Reading this even makes me feel as if the writer had a way to travel, or look into the future to bridge two different eras.
This story is very timely and of course it's not a coincidence that I came across this book. Reading this even makes me feel as if the writer had a way to travel, or look into the future to bridge two different eras.
December 22, 2020
Weird and intriguing. I love vintage books, particularly the language and the glimpse into a world that no longer exists. There are a lot of strange parallels between this book and modern times. Very cool that someone discovered this and reprinted it for book nerds like me. 😸 Epic!
March 4, 2021
I read 1900: The Last President. The other stories were actually written for kids. The story of the 1900 election was interesting. It is written as a dystopia but could easily happen today if power is left unchecked. Really it illustrates the importance of checks and balances in government. Without getting political I would say I recommend this novella, in the same way I recommend a book like 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, etc. Characters are different but the message is always the same, watch out for small groups that wield too much power. Even 121 years later, the message is a relevant one.
February 22, 2021
Quick read!
Interesting view of politics to the then-future election of 1896. Some interesting parallels with today’s government, but had to laugh at the Congress who refused to adjourn over the holidays because they had so much important work to do on behalf of the Country. That in itself convinced me it was a work of fiction!
Interesting view of politics to the then-future election of 1896. Some interesting parallels with today’s government, but had to laugh at the Congress who refused to adjourn over the holidays because they had so much important work to do on behalf of the Country. That in itself convinced me it was a work of fiction!
April 5, 2021
It read a lot like Gulliver’s Travels in the first two books. Quaint, repetitive and fantastical. But the third book - “The Last President” - was uncannily eerie for its prophetic tendency to seemingly portray today’s political climate.
February 26, 2020
Waste of time.
November 29, 2022
The Last President was the best part of the book.
June 1, 2018
Not kindle unlimited, actually got it for 99 cents all together though there are various other sets and prices, as well as the single books, and as far as the blurb stuff, not as much similarity as acts like there is {in the blurb}, but there is quite a bit, and the last of the stories was a bit iffy on how much I actually liked it, the others tended to drag in places, but didn't feel as if it deserved less than a 4 no matter what, even if the writing seemed a bit stilted {as it was written back in 1800's}. this version did not have a lot of the illustrations that other ones did BUT it was also on 99 cents for all 3 books AND available for me to read mobi/epub, and it was about the same type as Gulliver's Travels basically
Travels And Adventures Of Little Baron Trump
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
1900 ~ Or: The Last President
The Last President ** Travels And Adventures Of Little Baron Trump ** Baron Trumps’ Marvellous Underground Journey: INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD COLLECTION
Travels And Adventures Of Little Baron Trump
Baron Trump's Marvelous Underground Journey
1900 ~ Or: The Last President
The Last President ** Travels And Adventures Of Little Baron Trump ** Baron Trumps’ Marvellous Underground Journey: INGERSOLL LOCKWOOD COLLECTION
April 19, 2021
This was 3 books. The first 2 were about the travel adventures of Baron Trump and the last was the Last President. These were written in the late 1800 and there was some hubbub about the character’s name being Baron Trump and that the last book was about the last president. The first 2 books were all fantasy which is not my genre of preference, but it was a fun read. I will say that the characters talk in old English (thee, thou..). The last president was way different and very short. It was very detailed about politics and government and to be honest I am sick to death of this topic right now. So I did not enjoy it.
June 22, 2022
Sometimes curiosity finds new great authors, fabulous stories but other times this happens.
I honestly did not even understand the 1900: Or, the Last President story.
And this was painfully long.
I honestly did not even understand the 1900: Or, the Last President story.
And this was painfully long.
August 21, 2025
First let me state that the condition of this book was mint, really superb. Now as to content.
Second, I mistakenly fell for the 'prophetic' aspect of the books, as Lockwood has a story of the Last President who ruins America and at the same time writes books about Baron Trump's adventures. However this is wholly coincidence. The last President is Williams Jenning Bryan, a left wing populist whose followers folded into the Democratic party, who ran on a platform of free silver, since silver is cheap and abundant, that means a platform of printing money for rampant inflation. He got his agenda via control of Congress, so the polar opposite of D.J. Trump.
Third the name Trump in Adventures of Baron Trump. Trump being a German name and Lockwood being ambassador to Hanover, perhaps not so odd. In Adventures of..., the man is a pint sized son of a Baron. Again, the opposite of America's Baron Trump, though intelligent.
Fourth, disappointed, I read on. The Last President is more like reading 'End is coming, the end is near, we have a liberal President.' Dull but good job on the ominous tone.
Now the Baron Trump stories, OMG! Pure boredom. I could only ear to read a half a page at a clip. Finally- Spoilers ahead! Little Trump, as they say, gets gold from dad to trek or sail off on many expeditions, which all have the exact same very dull plot. Natural dangers abound. Finally, he finds a land filled with extremely unreal products of evolution, like Ice People, Rock People, Statue People, Frog-Jumping People, Wind People, in all weird shapes and sizes, wholly ludicrous, who have evolved that way over centuries of Darwinian selction. Very 1800s! He is immediately threatened with death for trespassing, but Lo, the small but oddball shaped Princess is delighted with Trump as her toy, and later marriage is ordered. Through very contrived simplistic 'ingenious' methods he overcomes every obstacle like escape from weather, the bride's and king's clutches, again, again, again.
In conclusion, it is very clear Lockwood is aiming at a Jules Verne's Mouse on the Moon or Baron Munchausen type adventure, but it falls short. The contrast between wholly unrealistic and boring events and very basic (and boring) escape plans is just exhausting.
Baron Munchausen, Candide, Verne, even Time Bandits, Hotel Budapest, Harry Potter, succeed by having wild fantastical events but well rooted in realistic circumstances so one can identify with the hero, not Rock People and Volcano snow with feelings. And the escapes feel both real and are set up properly so they emerge naturally as truly ingenious solutions from the hero's options. We always think, Ah, I should have though of that from the plot's clues that were planted! Not 'rubbish!'.
That being said, Lockwood writes well, loquacious like WM Thackeray but not as fun.
Second, I mistakenly fell for the 'prophetic' aspect of the books, as Lockwood has a story of the Last President who ruins America and at the same time writes books about Baron Trump's adventures. However this is wholly coincidence. The last President is Williams Jenning Bryan, a left wing populist whose followers folded into the Democratic party, who ran on a platform of free silver, since silver is cheap and abundant, that means a platform of printing money for rampant inflation. He got his agenda via control of Congress, so the polar opposite of D.J. Trump.
Third the name Trump in Adventures of Baron Trump. Trump being a German name and Lockwood being ambassador to Hanover, perhaps not so odd. In Adventures of..., the man is a pint sized son of a Baron. Again, the opposite of America's Baron Trump, though intelligent.
Fourth, disappointed, I read on. The Last President is more like reading 'End is coming, the end is near, we have a liberal President.' Dull but good job on the ominous tone.
Now the Baron Trump stories, OMG! Pure boredom. I could only ear to read a half a page at a clip. Finally- Spoilers ahead! Little Trump, as they say, gets gold from dad to trek or sail off on many expeditions, which all have the exact same very dull plot. Natural dangers abound. Finally, he finds a land filled with extremely unreal products of evolution, like Ice People, Rock People, Statue People, Frog-Jumping People, Wind People, in all weird shapes and sizes, wholly ludicrous, who have evolved that way over centuries of Darwinian selction. Very 1800s! He is immediately threatened with death for trespassing, but Lo, the small but oddball shaped Princess is delighted with Trump as her toy, and later marriage is ordered. Through very contrived simplistic 'ingenious' methods he overcomes every obstacle like escape from weather, the bride's and king's clutches, again, again, again.
In conclusion, it is very clear Lockwood is aiming at a Jules Verne's Mouse on the Moon or Baron Munchausen type adventure, but it falls short. The contrast between wholly unrealistic and boring events and very basic (and boring) escape plans is just exhausting.
Baron Munchausen, Candide, Verne, even Time Bandits, Hotel Budapest, Harry Potter, succeed by having wild fantastical events but well rooted in realistic circumstances so one can identify with the hero, not Rock People and Volcano snow with feelings. And the escapes feel both real and are set up properly so they emerge naturally as truly ingenious solutions from the hero's options. We always think, Ah, I should have though of that from the plot's clues that were planted! Not 'rubbish!'.
That being said, Lockwood writes well, loquacious like WM Thackeray but not as fun.
November 23, 2025
The first two books are sets of stories about "The Great Explorer, Little Baron, Sebastian von Troomp and his Wonderful Dog Bulger" meeting strange (quasi-human-like) creatures. Often bewildering and captivating. Sometimes hilarious. The prophecy doesn't hit you in the face, but the books are strange enough to spark this interest. The last book - The Last President - feels disconnected from the first two books.
"Thy marvelous adventures fill all mouths. Thou hast set a new lustre on the family name, and I come to rouse thee from thy apparent sloth. Thou must be up and doing. Thou must shake off this indolence which will gain an increased power over thee each passing hour. New triumphs await thee. Go lorth once mor. Turn aside out of the beaten paths. Seek the wonderful and marvelous."
"Thy marvelous adventures fill all mouths. Thou hast set a new lustre on the family name, and I come to rouse thee from thy apparent sloth. Thou must be up and doing. Thou must shake off this indolence which will gain an increased power over thee each passing hour. New triumphs await thee. Go lorth once mor. Turn aside out of the beaten paths. Seek the wonderful and marvelous."
January 23, 2021
Incomplete download
The language of the 1700-1800s are different from today, more lengthy and full of words not commonly used now but that is not my complaint. Instead it is because the book ended in the middle of a paragraph! If it is because it was incorrectly downloaded, I will revise this review. The first books about the little baron Trump is childish yet written so only today's adult would "get it", as well as having quite a bit of violence in it. But if the parent read it and the child could understand this language, it has some good adventures.
The language of the 1700-1800s are different from today, more lengthy and full of words not commonly used now but that is not my complaint. Instead it is because the book ended in the middle of a paragraph! If it is because it was incorrectly downloaded, I will revise this review. The first books about the little baron Trump is childish yet written so only today's adult would "get it", as well as having quite a bit of violence in it. But if the parent read it and the child could understand this language, it has some good adventures.
Want to read
January 10, 2021I THINK I want to read this, simply because I'm curious. But the reviews are less than glowing, to put it mildly.
March 9, 2021
UGH! Nope....
September 4, 2022
It did not live up to many of the reviews which prompted me to buy and read the book and why I rate it a 3.
August 27, 2023
It's not worth reading as a curiosity.
December 18, 2023
Kindle unlimited
For a honest review in my own words this was a fantastic adventure story as you go into different worlds and meet all these interesting people .
For a honest review in my own words this was a fantastic adventure story as you go into different worlds and meet all these interesting people .
March 9, 2024
VERY difficult to understand
The last book was uncanny in how much similarities between then and now. I speak of the climate in this country.
The last book was uncanny in how much similarities between then and now. I speak of the climate in this country.
December 9, 2024
Interesting....
January 7, 2025
Intriguing enough to pique curiosity and keep one reading; intensly infuriating to have so many questions and no answers.
February 10, 2025
I was fascinated with the title and picked it up hoping it would be interesting. It probably is but the old English was too hard to get through. I didn’t make it past a few chapters.
March 18, 2025
3.5 nice little story
June 4, 2021
very interesting and mind blowing as well. Worth a read for sure
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