The Wild Huntress - Captain Thomas Mayne-Reid

Captain Thomas Mayne-Reid, The Wild Huntress, Second Edition Ward and Lock London 1861, Hardcover 400 pp. (kast hal)

Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 –1883) was a British novelist who fought in the Mexican–American War (1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. They were set mainly in the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He was an admirer of Lord Byron. His novel Quadroon (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled The Octoroon (1859) by Dion Boucicault and produced in New York.