Richard Harding Davis: 177 books

“Miss Civilization” is founded on a story by the late James Harvey Smith. All professional rights in this play belong to Richard Harding Davis. Amateurs who desire to produce “Miss Civilization” may do so, providing they apply for permission to the editor of Collier's Weekly, in which publication this play was first printed.

In New York, acclaimed reporter Richard Harding Davis hopped a train westward, hoping to encounter the Wild West he had read so much about. His dispatches to Harper’s Weekly, including a riveting account of riding with the U.S. Army on the trail of a fugitive, are collected this early portrait of a growing region.

The Amateur by Richard Harding Davis libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

Richard Harding Davis' career began in journalism, where he made his name as a daring front-line correspondent in several wars and conflicts. Later, he would translate his battlefield experience into a number of fiction and nonfiction books. Real Soldiers of Fortune presents brief biographies detailing...

My Buried Treasure by Richard Harding Davis libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

Richard Harding Davis was born on April 18, 1864. He was a journalist of some renown. He was the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. His writing greatly assisted the political career of Theodore Roosevelt and he also played...

THE street that I knew best in Paris was an unimportant street, and one into which important people seldom came, and then only to pass on through it to the Rue de Rivoli, which ran parallel with it, or to the Rue Castiglione, which cut it evenly in two. It was to them only the shortest distance between...

Richard Harding Davis based many of his works on his own experiences as a journalist. This engaging collection of short stories, the title story of which was made into a movie in 1915, also includes such stories as “My Buried Treasure,” “The Nature Faker,” and “The Lost House.” It is a premier example of his talents.

In common with many others who have been with Richard Harding Davis as correspondents, I find it difficult to realize that he has covered his last story and that he will not be seen again with the men who follow the war game, rushing to distant places upon which the spotlight of news interest suddenly centres.

Davis chronicles his adventures and those of his wife, Cecil Clark Davis, as they traveled along the coasts of Africa in 1907. Their interactions with the nature, people, and animals of the land are interesting and precarious. This is a detailed catalogue of his experiences, written with Davis’s usual flair for excitement, drama, and attention to detail.

Based upon Davis’s years as a first-rate war correspondent, the book provides a colorful and dramatic account of key military operations in the Spanish-American War. His account of Teddy Roosevelt’s charge up San Juan Hill thrusts the reader right into the dramatic action. Davis, whose writing did much to further the mystique of the Rough Riders, was also made an honorary member.

First published in 1897, this is Davis’s personal account of the guerilla warfare that played a part in the Cuban War of Independence. With his singular journalistic style that made him one of the best-known war correspondents of his day, Davis delivers a graphic, dramatic account of this turbulent time in history.

An ambitious adventure story that follows Captain Macklin—called one of Davis’s most fascinating heroes—through a South American revolution and a maze of  military maneuvers. Written with the robust vivacity and “man’s man” perspective for which Davis is well-known, Captain Macklin is an epic adventure. 

First published in 1906, Real Soldiers of Fortune is a collection of early biographies of famous (and infamous) soldiers. Here are portraits of Major-General Henry Ronald Douglas MacIver; Major Frederick Russell Burnham; General William Walker; Captain Philo Norton McGiffin; Winston Spencer Churchill;...