American traveler, journalist and author, born in Pembroke, NH, on the 26th of June 1835. After teaching school for a few months, he visited the gold-fields of Colorado in 1860, but enlisted as soon as the Civil War broke out. After two campaigns he retired with a lieutenant-colonel’s brevet, to join the field-staff of a New York daily. Later, he crossed Siberia with a telegraph-laying expedition, making 3,600 miles on sledges and 1,500 miles on wheels, and publishing his impressions under the title of Overland Through Asia. He wrote a number of books for boys, which proved very successful, being mainly based upon his own traveling experiences. He wrote, also, a Life of Henry Ward Beecher; Lives of Blaine and Logan; Decisive Battles Since Waterloo; and a History of the Republican Party; etc. He died in New York City on the 6th of January 1896.
