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The first novel starts when Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle—a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"—encounter a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenaged boy, who uses the steam-man to carry him in a carriage on various adventures.
Frank Reade was the protagonist of a series of dime novels published primarily for boys. [1] [2] The first novel, Frank Reade and His Steam Man of the Plains, an imitation of Edward Ellis's The Steam Man of the Prairies (1868), was written by Harry Enton and serialized in the Frank Tousey juvenile magazine Boys of New York, February 28 through April 24, 1876. [3]
Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 – June 20, 1916) was an American author. [1] [2]Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles [3] that he produced by his name and by a number of pen names.
Plans to produce it for $300 never went through, making this an example of an early development in steam power that was abandoned. [3] Nonetheless, inventions such as this one spurred interest in steam power, as exemplified by novels such as The Steam Man of the Prairies, and by many imitations and hoaxes that appeared as a result. [4]
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