About Ellis

Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, journalist, and the author of hundreds of books and magazine articles that he produced by his name and by a number of noms de plume.

Notable fiction stories by Ellis include The Steam Man of the Prairies and Seth Jones, or the Captives of the Frontier.

Internationally, Edward S. Ellis is probably known best for his Deerfoot novels read widely by young boys until the 1950s.