Edwin L. Sabin

[1][2][4] In May 1893, as a correspondent he accompanied a scientific expedition led by University of Iowa zoology professor Charles Cleveland Nutting on the schooner Emily E. Johnson.

The 83-day expedition to the Bahamas stopped at Egg Island, Havana, Bird Key, the Dry Tortugas, and Spanish Wells.

[2][5] In October 1896, he married Mary Caroline Nash of Iowa, nine years younger than him, whom he met working in Chicago.

Both books were unsuccessful, but the second began a long, fruitful relationship with the publisher Thomas Y. Crowell Co.[2] From 1913 to 1931 he published dozens of critically acclaimed adventure books about the American West, many of them for Crowell's "Great West" and "Range and Trail" series or for the "Trail Blazers" series from J.

Though widely praised by critics and considered a standard work on the subject, given the amount of time he devoted to the project it was a net financial loss for Sabin.