The Huge Hunter

Edward Sylvester Ellis was an American author. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of noms de plume. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier. Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.

This book has a good sense of adventure and a decent sense of humor and likable enough characters. A young genius builds a steam powered robot that can walk along at high speed and tow a wagon behind it. What has he done with it? How did he use it? Read the story till the end to know!