to lose his readership. His 1852 Mexican adventure is described in Curumilla; the history of the murder of his half-sister Fanny in Te Land en Te Water I & II. In 1870 Aimard and other members of the press participated in the Franco-Prussian war and in the short-lived success at the Battle of Le Bourget. In 1879 Aimard visited Rio de Janeiro where he was received by the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil and feted by the literary community. His journal of the journey appeared as Mon Dernier Voyage, Le Brésil Nouveau (1886). Works The Frontiersmen (1854) The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City Stronghand; or, The Noble Revenge The Buccaneer Chief: A Romance of the Spanish Main The Trail-Hunter: A Tale of the Far (1861) The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War The Red River Half-Breed: A Tale of the Wild North-West (1860-1855) The Guide of the Desert (1863-1855) The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California (1863-1885) The Flying Horseman (1863-1885) The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border (1874) The Red Track: A Story of Social Life in Mexico (187?) The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert The Pearl of the Andes: A Tale of Love and Adventure (1884) References Aimard, Gustave. 1860. Curumilla. Paris: Amyot. ––––1879. Par Terre et par Mer (Le Corsaire, Le Bâtard). Paris: Ollendorf. –––– 1888. Mon Dernier Voyage: Le Brésil Nouveau. 1888. Illustrée par Fernand Besnier. Paris: E. Dentu Éditeur. Libraire de la Société des gens de lettres. Eggermont-Molenaar. 2009. Gustave Aimard: Feiten, Frictie, Frictie. Calgary: Special Snowflake Inc. Sieverling, R. 1982. Die Abenteurromane Gustave Aimards. Freiburg: Inaugural-Dissertation. Soulier, Maurice. [1856]1927. The Wolf Cub. The Great Adventure of Count Gaston de Raousset-Boulbon in California and Sonora – 1850–1854. Tr. by Farrell Symons. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. Sources Translated from :nl:Gustave Aimard External links 1818 births 1883 deaths Writers from Paris 19th-century French novelists French male novelists 19th-century French male writers