(?   -?   ) US author of Under Pike's Peak; Or, Mahalma, Child of the Fire Father (1898), in which a Lost World is discovered Underground, in the caverns beneath Pike's Peak. The inhabitants are dwarfish but Telepathic, their queen, Mahalma child of the Fire Father, is a "normal" woman who gives her body to the protagonist's rival, in order to save her people, and therefore dies. Her spirit lingers, wistfully. [JC]

Charles L McKesson

born

died

works

• Under Pike's Peak; Or, Mahalma, Child of the Fire Father (New York: F Tennyson Neely, 1898) [in the publisher's Neely's Continental Library series: simultaneous hb and pictorial pb: pb/uncredited]

links

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