Ellis began his career as a schoolteacher. In 1860, he published a novel, Seth Jones: or, The Captives of the Frontier, in Beadle's Dime Novels. It was tremendously successful, selling over 500,000 copies, and started Ellis on the road to publishing success. An enormously prolific writer who used scores of pseudonyms during his career, it is virtually impossible to chronicle all of his works. Besides writing fiction, Ellis wrote numerous works concerning physiology, arithmetic, history and other subjects. Some of these included Eclectic Primary History of the United States (1885), Youth's History of the United States (1887), School History of the United States (1892), Great Leaders and National Issues (1896), The Story of South Africa (1899), A School History of New Jersey (1910) and A History of the German People (1916). Ellis contributed to many periodicals including the Fireside Companion, New York Weekly and Golden Argosy, in addition to the variety of Dime Novel publications. Ellis continued teaching in spite of his literary success until the mid-1880's. Among his many works of fiction are Nathan Todd (1860), The Frontier Angel (1862), Life and Times of Christopher Carson (1862), Old Grizzly (1874), Hunters of the Ozark (1887), White Mustang (1889), The Great Cattle Trail (1894), In The Pecos Country (1894), A Path in the Ravine (1895), The Young Ranchers (1895), Alexander Hamilton (1898), Thomas Jefferson (1898), Red Jacket (1900) and Deerfoot in the Forest (1905). |
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