Meadow robbers

Friedrich Gerstäcker (1818–1872) was a German writer, traveler, and one of the most popular authors of adventure literature in the 19th century. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, his books enjoyed the same success as the works of Gustav Aimard, Thomas Mayne Reid, and Fenimore Cooper. However, unlike many of his contemporaries, Gerstäcker did not seek to simply exoticize distant lands, bu...