The Island of the Stairs (Esprios Classics)

Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20 1861 - January 24 1920) was a journalist historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is Indian Fights and Fighters. He was born in Allegheny Pennsylvania and graduated from the US. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889 he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie who died in 1890. His second wife was Mary Barrett. Brady's first major book For Love of Country whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy.