Category: Biographies
To most of the world, Captain Mayne Reid is known only as a writer of thrilling romances and works on natural history. It will appear in these pages that he was also distinguished as a man of action and a soldier, and the record of his many gallant deeds should still further e...
During the year 1852 a strong friendship had sprung up between Captain Mayne Reid and Louis Kossuth, the ex-governor of Hungary, who was at that time living in London. Captain R...
4. CHAPTER FOUR.Captain Mayne Reid continues the account: "Thus was the American army halted in its victorious career on the 20th of August. Another hour, and it would have been in the streets...
1. CHAPTER ONE.To most of the world, Captain Mayne Reid is known only as a writer of thrilling romances and works on natural history. It will appear in these pages that he was also distinguish...
11. CHAPTER ELEVEN.Captain Mayne Reid had now met his fate; not in the dark-eyed Mexican senorita, but a fair little English girl, a child scarce thirteen years of age. Her name was Elizabeth Hyde...
6. CHAPTER SIX.Mayne Reid was laid up in the city of Mexico for some time. It was at first supposed that amputation of the leg would be necessary; but on the doctors consulting, they came to t...
15. CHAPTER FIFTEEN.In this chapter are given a reminiscence by Donn Piatt of Mayne Reid, and a few extracts from the numerous obituary notices which appeared in the press. Donn Piatt writes:
3. CHAPTER THREE.I give now some accounts written by Mayne Reid of the various engagements of the American army in Mexico. Some of these were written from the seat of war, and others subsequently.
2. CHAPTER TWO.Shortly before his death Captain Mayne Reid conceived the idea of publishing his recollections of the Mexican war, and had commenced to roughly sketch out two or three chapters...
7. CHAPTER SEVEN.He spent the autumn and winter at his friend Donn Piatt's house in the valley of the Mac-o-Chee, Ohio. Here he wrote the greater part of "The Rifle Rangers," in which he gives u...
14. CHAPTER FOURTEEN.For some time after his return home Mayne Reid's health remained in a precarious state, and he suffered very much from depression. At one time it was almost feared that his mind...
13. CHAPTER THIRTEEN.Soon after his arrival Captain Reid was eagerly sought by different publishers who wished to get his name. At Newport he wrote "The Child Wife," for which _Frank Leslie's Paper_...
12. CHAPTER TWELVE.During the same year, 1863, "The Ocean Waifs" was appearing in the _Boys Journal_, and the following year "The Boy Slaves" was written for the same magazine. After an interval o...
5. CHAPTER FIVE.It was reported that Lieutenant Mayne Reid had died of his wounds. This intelligence reached his family in Ireland, who mourned him as dead until the joyful contradiction arrive...
9. CHAPTER NINE.Captain Mayne Reid now sought to find a publisher for his first romance, "The Rifle Rangers," which he had written at Donn Piatt's house in Ohio, and to which he had now put the...
8. CHAPTER EIGHT.About the middle of June, 1849, Captain Mayne Reid, in company with the revolutionary leader Hecker, and others bent upon the same errand, sailed in the Cunard steamship "Caledo...