Edison Marshall

Edison Marshall
Edison Marshall (1894–1967) was an American writer known for his adventure and historical novels. His works often combined elements of romance, adventure, and exotic settings, reflecting his fascination with exploration and history. Some of his notable books include "The Viking" (1951), "Yankee Pasha" (1947), and "The Gentleman" (1951), which were popular for their vivid storytelling and rich historical detail. Several of his novels, such as "The Viking," were adapted into Hollywood films, enhancing his fame during the mid-20th century.

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If one can just lie close enough to the breast of the wilderness, he can't help but be imbued with some of the life that pulses therein.—From a Frontiersman's Diary. Long ago, when the great city of Gitcheapolis was a rather small, untidy hamlet in the middle of a plain, it used to be that a pool of water, possibly two hundred feet square, gathered every spring immediately back of the... more...

I The convict gang had a pleasant place to work to-day. Their road building had taken them some miles from the scattered outskirts of Walla Walla, among fields green with growing barley. The air was fresh and sweet; the Western meadow larks, newly come, seemed in imminent danger of splitting their own throats through the exuberance of their song. Even the steel rails of the Northern Pacific, running... more...

It was not the first time that people of the forest had paused on the hill at twilight to look down on Bradleyburg. The sight always seemed to intrigue and mystify the wild folk,—the shadowed street, the spire of the moldering church ghostly in the half-light, the long row of unpainted shacks, and the dim, pale gleam of an occasional lighted window. The old bull moose, in rutting days, was wont to... more...