Luis Senarens ~5 hr read

The boy-inventor Frank Reade races across the plains aboard his fantastic Steam Horse, a mechanical marvel that flies like a rocket over the hard prairie land.

Luis Senarens's 1892 dime novel, under the 'Noname' byline, is an early Frank Reade adventure featuring one of the series' signature steam-powered contraptions. Fast, wild, foundational juvenile SF. Read it for a cornerstone of the American 'Edisonade,' where a young genius and his steam machine chase adventure across the West.

In its time

Published in 1892, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).