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Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months

by Maturin M. Ballou

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Maturin Murray Ballou (1820-1895) was an American journalist, editor, historian and author. He was editor of Flag of the Union, Gleason's Pictorial and Ballou's Monthly and in 1872 became editor-in-chief of the Boston Daily Globe, of which he was one of the founders. He was a publisher of pulp dime novels, many of which he wrote himself under the pseudonym "Lieutenant Murray" His works include: Albert Simmons; or, The Midshipman's Revenge (1845), The Gipsey Daughter; or, The Fortunes of a Spanish Cavalier (1851), The Circassian Slave; or, The Sultan's Favorite (1851), Biography of Rev. Hosea B...

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