pseudonym of Thomas Mayne Reid
Irish novelist, born in Ballyroney, County Down, Northern Ireland. Reid went to the
USA in 1838, where he had a varied career and took an active part in the Mexican
War; he settled in England in about 1850. He wrote a succession of adventure
stories, including The Rifle Rangers (1850), The Scalp Hunters (1851), The White
Chief (1859), and The Headless Horseman (1866).