Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862-1919) was an American author of popular juvenile historical fiction. In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville Courier-Journal as a reporter and later, an editor. He started working for the New York World in 1892, first as the paper"s Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor of the World"s tri-weekly magazine. Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing children"s stories for the magazine. His works include: Before The Dawn (1903), The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky (1907), The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War (1909), The Riflemen of the Ohio (1910) and The Sun of Quebec: A Story of a Great Crisis (1919). Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Candidate (Dodo Press) (Joseph A. Altsheler)