Edward Sylvester Ellis (1840 - 1916) was an American teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles under his own name and a number of pseudonyms. Notable fiction stories by Ellis include "e;The Huge Hunter; or, The Steam Man of the Prairies"e; and the "e;Deerfoot"e; novels, which were read widely by boys until the 1950s.A word ...