Samuel Merwin, Sr.

Books by Samuel Merwin, Sr.

Merry Anne

This 1904 maritime adventure is set in the Great Lakes region, upon water and in wood. Our hero is caught in a smuggling scheme and may lose his boat and his sweetheart. With a fast pace and interesting plot, the story is made realistic with very mod...

Calumet “K”

"A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down until it is finished. It has to do with grain-elevator business, with railways, strikes, and commercial...

Short Line War

"The Short Line War is a story that will appeal more particularly to the sterner sex, and we take it that the hyphenated name, Merwin-Webster, stands for two healthy-minded young men who have put their heads together and who have mapped out this stor...

Hattie of Hollywood

No writer has ever caught the true spirit of the camera world and translated it into words as Mr. Merwin has done in this remarkable story. Hattie Johnson, a factory girl, just budding into womanhood, without beauty, without brains, without aspiratio...

Drugging a Nation

Drugging a Nation is a journalistic reveal of the extent to which the British Empire was culpable in the dissemination and subsequent near total addiction to opium of the Chinese people in the nineteenth century. So weak did it make China, that is wa...