Download or read book The Huge Hunter; Or, The Steam Man of the Prairies written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Steam Man of the Prairies by Edward S. Ellis was the first U.S. science fiction dime novel and archetype of the Frank Reade series. The first novel starts when Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle—a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"—encounter a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenage boy, who uses the steam-man to carry him in a carriage on various adventures.