Deerfoot in The Mountains

Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11  1840, USA -June 20 1916, USA)- American writer. Author of westerns, fantastic novels and history books. Edward  was born in Ohio in hunter’s family – Sylvester Ellis and Mary Ellis. He worked a teacher and published poems and novels. Edward was author of children books about history of USA and other countries, and biographies of Tomas Jefferson, Christopher Houston Carson and Davy Crockett.  At all he wrote  460 large works  and 523-650 smaller ones. He was married twice. He died during holiday on the Cliff Island.


The “Deerfoot in the mountains” is  a fiction adventure story, which contains twenty eight chapters. This  is story  about  the twin brothers, their names George and Victor Shelton. They had completed a long journey from the Ohio river to the Pacific Slope and standing on an elevation near the Columbia. At the this moment a new story begins. The book  described the wild nature in a great way. Read story until the end.