The Forest Exiles, or, The Perils of a Peruvian Family Amid the Wilds of the Amazon (1868)

Continuing to base his novels on his adventures in America, he turned out several more successful novels: He spent money freely, including building in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the sprawling "Rancho" , an elaborate reproduction of a Mexican hacienda that he had seen during the Mexican-American War, where he took to farming. This extravagant living forced him to declare bankruptcy in November from which he was discharged in January He went back to New York in and founded the Onward Magazine.

But America was not as kind to Reid this time around. The wound he had received at Chapultepec started to bother him, and he was hospitalized for several months at St. Luke in June Elizabeth hated America, and following his discharge from the hospital he and his wife returned to England on October 22, , and lived at Ross on Wye , Herefordshire. Suffering from acute melancholia, he was soon again hospitalized.

He tried to write, but completed few projects. He lived mainly off his U. Army pension, which was not enough to cover his situation. Reid died in London, at the age of 65, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. A quotation from The Scalp Hunters is on his grave marker: It is the Garden of God. Books such as the Young Voyagers had great popularity, especially with boys. He was also very popular around the world; his tales of the American West captivated children everywhere, including Europe and Russia. Rokossovky , future Marshal of the Soviet Union , referring to Reid's work in early A chapter on Reid appears in his Emperor of the Earth collection of essays.

When a little boy has been reading Mayne Reid and his blanket falls off during the night, he starts shivering, and it is than that he dreams of such a sea. The shy, asthmatic aristocrat, Theodore Roosevelt, would grow up to pursue naturalistic zoology and adventure travel.

Although Mayne Reid called himself, and is listed often as, "captain", Francis B. Heitman's definitive Historical Register and Dictionary of the U. Army only shows lieutenant. Reid wrote about seventy-five novels, and many short stories and sketches. The Forest Exiles Mayne Reid. The Free Lances Mayne Reid. Gaspar, the Gaucho Mayne Reid.

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The Giraffe-Hunters Mayne Reid. The Headless Horseman Mayne Reid. The Hunters' Feast Mayne Reid. The Hunter's Feast Mayne Reid. The Land of Fire Mayne Reid. The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid.

The Lost Mountain Mayne Reid. The Maroon Mayne Reid. The Naturalist in Siluria Mayne Reid. The Ocean Waifs Mayne Reid. Oceola Mayne Reid. Odd People Captain Mayne Reid.

The Plant Hunters Mayne Reid. The Quadroon Mayne Reid. He also apparently worked as a carrier for the paper. His earliest verifiable work was a series of epic poems called Scenes in the West Indies.

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In early , Reid moved to Philadelphia, where he remained for three years. During this time he worked as a journalist and from time to time had poetry published in Godey's Lady's Book , Graham's Magazine , the Ladies National Magazine , and similar publications, using the same pseudonym he had employed in Pittsburgh. It was in Philadelphia that he met Edgar Allan Poe and the two became drinking companions for a time.

He fibs on a surprising scale but with the finish of an artist, and that is why I listen to him attentively. When the Mexican—American War began in the spring of , Reid was working as a correspondent for the New York Herald in Newport, Rhode Island which would later become the setting for yet another novel. At this time he began using the pen-name Ecolier , in addition to the Poor Scholar. In January the regiment left New York by ship.

Using the pseudonym "Ecolier" , Reid was a correspondent for the a New York newspaper, Spirit of the Times , which published his Sketches by a Skirmisher. On September 13, at the Battle of Chapultepec , the young Irish-born officer received a severe thigh wound while leading a charge. He was afterward promoted to the rank of first lieutenant for bravery in battle. He published War Life , an account of his army service, June 27, Learning of the Bavarian Revolution , he headed to England to volunteer.

But, after the Atlantic crossing changed his mind, and instead headed home to northern Ireland. He shortly moved to London , and in published his first novel, The Rifle Rangers. This latter book, set in Texas and Louisiana , was "juvenile scientific travelog".

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It would become a favorite of young Theodore Roosevelt , who would become a huge Reid fan. That same year Reid married the daughter of his publisher G. Hyde, an English aristocrat , Elizabeth Hyde, a year-old young lady. After a short time off to spend with his new bride and honeymoon, he soon returned to writing. Continuing to base his novels on his adventures in America, he turned out several more successful novels: He spent money freely, including building in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire, the sprawling "Rancho" , an elaborate reproduction of a Mexican hacienda that he had seen during the Mexican—American War, where he took to farming.

This extravagant living forced him to declare bankruptcy in November from which he was discharged in January He went back to New York in and founded the Onward Magazine. But America was not as kind to Reid this time around. The wound he had received at Chapultepec started to bother him, and he was hospitalized for several months at St.