A Christmas When The West Was Young
Cyrus Townsend BRADY (1861 - 1920)
MP3 CD
(IDB Productions, March 15, 2017)
A short book consisting of six chapters mostly about love and life and the challenges the family must face. The chapters include Love And Welcome, Love And Farewell, Death And The Storm, God And The Baby, The Ride And The Night, and Life And Love. Cyrus Townsend Brady was an American journalist, historian and adventure author. His most popular work is Indian Fights and Fighters. Brady was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and attended the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained as a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. He has two wives, first was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890 and his second was Mary Barrett. For Love of Country was his first main book that tells the story of the featured character John Seymour who was in fact created in portion on the real haste of Nicholas Biddle, who was among the first five captains of the novice Continental Navy. He was also remarkable for his insights on feminism and Women's right to vote, he discoursed a number of anti-suffrage addresses and labelled women voters as "an insult to God". In 1914 Brady became a screenwriter at Vitagraph Company of America. His other outstanding works include The Island of Regeneration, American Fights and Fighters, Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West, Hohenzollern: A Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa, The Southerners, A Little Traitor to the South, A Midshipman in the Pacific, The Corner in Coffee, Three Daughters of the Confederacy, As the Sparks Fly Upward, Hearts and the Highway, Secret Service, The Island of the Stairs, By the World Forgot, Bob Dashaway Privateersman, The Patriots, Britton of the Seventh: A Romance of Custer and the Great Northwest, Little France, And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy, among others.