The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-05-04
The Authors of ~ y
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Miss Frances McErath whose hrss novel, The Rustler
mas Just been published by tho Funk Wagnas company
her stories of army and ranch lfc in periodicals of The
class represented by the Youths Companion In fact Il
was in search Of materials for such articles that she came
upon the remarkable incidents and striking characters which
suggested her first book
Miss McElrath from journalistic family her
grandfather Thomas McElrah in association publisher
with Horace Greeley having founded the New Tribune
and her father Thomson McErah after military career OF
some having left the army to engage in newspaper
work He for editor Of the BROOKLYN Union and
later of Frank Leses Weekly While In the latter posto
ms health broke down and in hopes Of restoring it he moved
west to Montana with his family. At that time Montana
typcaly "frontiera vivid consomerate of soldier
Indian, cowboy and Yankee elements and Frances. grow
ing up from young ghood amidst these surroundings had
somewhat unusual opportunities for acquiring knowledge of
the West in its town. and also in Its military features
Miss McEirath has spent considerable time on stock
ranches and quite familiar with the life Of which she
writes
The ehvalry of the of the West is we'll known and
has been adequately presented in many novels Miss Nc
Elrah is the first however of the sensitivenes Of
his inner nature and this in delicate as the
subject While the book discusses graphic fashion the
stirring incidents OF the striking of the cattle
countryhe ruser warnevertheless the chief interest
OF the novel is psychological.
Mr. Israel Putnam the author of Daniel Evcrton voiun-
teerRegular Funk Wagnas company, resident Of
Saratoga Springs, N Y He is greagrandson of Gideon
Putnam who founded that village, and collateral knsmap
of the famous revolutionary general whose he BEARS
He is OF the late Justice John r. Putnam Of the New
York supreme court
Mr.. Putnam has spent many years travel and Is fa-
mlia with the Far East At the outbreak hosttes In
the Philippines years ago he found himself in Manila,
and witness of the which took place in and
about that city at the time when it held virtually
state of siege by the nsurgent Later on when the
aggressive operations the part OF forces begun
he accompanied several of the expeditions into the interior
At this time he commissioned second lieutenant and
assigned the Fourteenth infantry
After serving with that regiment south of Manila for
about two months Mr. Putnam transferred to the Sixth
infantry and the Island Of Negros where he
remained for 1t during his service this
island that he gathered the material Daniel Everton
His duties brought him into with the opulent sugar
planters, we'll with the insurgent element and the
types OF Filipino character which he has presented in his
novel have this time claim upon National interest
On his the United States eighteen months ago.
MI Putnam resigned from the army but he did renquh
his keen interest in the Filipino He giving evidence
this by returning the islands editor in chief of
Manila Cabenews daily paper about be established there
by the Manila Publishing company