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 age of children's literature.
A Rebellion in Dixie
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A Sailor in Spite of Himself
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A Struggle for a Fortune
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Carl the Trailer
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Don Gordon's Shooting-Box
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Elam Storm, the Wolfer; Or, The Lost Nugget
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Frank among the Rancheros
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Frank at Don Carlos' Rancho
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Frank Before Vicksburg / The Gun-Boat Series
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Frank in the Mountains
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Frank in the Woods
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Frank Nelson in the Forecastle; Or, The Sportman's Club Among the Whalers
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Frank on a Gun-Boat
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Frank on the Lower Mississippi
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Frank on the Prairie
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Frank, the Young Naturalist
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George at the Fort; Or, Life Among the Soldiers
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George at the Wheel; Or, Life in the Pilot-House
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George in Camp; or, Life on the Plains
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Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto
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Guy Harris, the Runaway
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Joe Wayring at Home; or, The Adventures of a Fly-Rod
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Julian Mortimer: A Brave Boy's Struggle for Home and Fortune
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Marcy the Blockade Runner
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Marcy, the Refugee
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No Moss; Or, The Career of a Rolling Stone
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Oscar in Africa
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Our Fellows; Or, Skirmishes with the Swamp Dragoons
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Rodney, the Overseer
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Rodney, the Partisan
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Sailor Jack, the Trader
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Snagged and Sunk; Or, The Adventures of a Canvas Canoe
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Snowed Up; or, The Sportman's Club in the Mountains
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The Boy Traders; Or, The Sportsman's Club Among the Boers
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The Boy Trapper
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The Buried Treasure; Or, Old Jordan's "Haunt"
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The Camp in the Foot-Hills; or, Oscar on Horseback
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The First Capture; or, Hauling Down the Flag of England
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The Haunted Mine
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The Mail Carrier
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The Missing Pocket-Book; Or, Tom Mason's Luck
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The Mystery of Lost River Canyon
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The Rod and Gun Club
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The Sportsman's Club Afloat
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The Sportsman's Club in the Saddle
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The Steel Horse: The Rambles of a Bicycle
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The Young Game-Warden
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The Young Wild-Fowlers
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Tom Newcombe; Or, the Boy of Bad Habits
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True To His Colors
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Two Ways of Becoming a Hunter
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Winged Arrow's Medicine; Or, The Massacre at Fort Phil Kearney
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