Richard Harding Davis

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Richard Harding Davis (18th April 1864 - 11th April 1916) was a writer and journalist best known for his involvement in the William Randolph Hearst's unproven plot to start the Spanish-American War in order to boost newspaper sales. Despite his association with Yellow journalism, his writings of life and travel in Central America and the Caribbean have remained a vivid portrait of the time.

Partial list of works

• The West From A Car Window (1892)
• Exiles, and other stories (1894)
• Three Gringos in Venezuela (1896)
• Cuba in War Time (1897)
• The Cuban & Porto Rican campaigns (1899)
• Cinderella, and other stories (1899)
• Gallegher, and other stories (1899)
• The Lion and the Unicorn (1899)
• Ranson's folly (1902)
• The bar sinister (1903)
• The Congo and coasts of Africa (1907)
• Notes of a War Correspondent (1910)
• Peace manoeuvres; a play in one act (1914)

External links

• Full text of Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis from Project Gutenberg
• "Not likely sent: The Remington-Hearst 'telegrams'".