Peter McHarg MacQueen

Peter McHarg MacQueen (1863–1924) was an American clergyman, writer, war correspondent, and popular lecturer, best known today for his book In Wildest Africa (1909).

[8] While reinvigorating that parish with his energy and wit, MacQueen published six more informative articles over the next three years that appeared in Cosmopolitan, Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, and Munsey's Magazine.

[9] In 1898, he sailed to Cuba to cover the Spanish–American War as a correspondent for the Boston Evening Transcript, National Magazine (a new Boston-based monthly), and The Congregationalist, a weekly church publication.

[22] Based on his world travels (which now numbered more than two dozen countries), he developed several illustrated lectures that he delivered to hundreds of audiences in schools, civic facilities, churches, and on the Chautauqua circuit.

[25] During their stay of several months in Africa, he and Dutkewich lived for weeks among the Wataveta tribe in their natural setting, when the two photographed and documented native ceremonies and customs.

On MacQueen's return to the U.S, he wrote In Wildest Africa, profusely illustrated with both his and Dutkewich's photos of native tribes in their natural settings.

[33] After having lived in the Boston area for most of his adult life, Peter moved to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, where he had spent many summer vacations.

He continued to travel the U.S. delivering lectures from his repertoire of subjects until 1919 when he returned to Europe to cover the Paris talks that resulted in the Treaty of Versailles.

[37] The Peter MacQueen Papers are held by Boston Public Library, but the whereabouts of his thousands of colored slides from his lectures remain undiscovered.