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Harry Castlemon
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Harry Castlemon
Charles Austin Fosdick, better known by his nom de plume Harry Castlemon, was a prolific writer of juvenile stories and novels, intended mainly for boys. He was born in Randolph, New York, and received a high school diploma from Central High School in Buffalo, New York. He served in the Union Navy from 1862 to 1865, during the American Civil War, acting as the receiver and superintendent of coal for the Mississippi River Squadron. Fosdick had begun to write as a teenager, and drew on his experiences serving in the Navy in such early novels as Frank on a Gunboat (1864) and Frank on the Lower Mississippi (1867). He soon became the most-read author for boys in the post-Civil War era, the golden
The Young Wild-Fowlers
Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits
The Young Game-Warden
The Sportsman's Club Afloat
The Sportsman's Club in the Saddle
The Steel Horse: The Rambles of a Bicycle
The Rod and Gun Club
The Mystery of Lost River Canyon
The Camp in the Foot-Hills; or, Oscar on Horseback
The Missing Pocket-Book; Or, Tom Mason's Luck
The Mail Carrier
Rodney, the Overseer
Snowed Up; or, The Sportman's Club in the Mountains
Guy Harris, the Runaway
The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt"
The Boy Traders; Or, The Sportsman's Club Among the Boers
Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto
Snagged and Sunk; Or, The Adventures of a Canvas Canoe
Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons
Oscar in Africa
Joe Wayring at Home; or, The Adventures of a Fly-Rod
Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; Or, The Sportman's Club Among the Whalers
Don Gordon's Shooting-Box
