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Almira Stillwell Cole
Best known for a vivid late-19th-century travel memoir, this American writer turned a difficult mule-back journey through Honduras into a lively, memorable adventure story. Her surviving work feels immediate and personal, with a strong sense of place and determination.
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About the author
Almira Stillwell Cole was an American traveler and author remembered for Six Days on the Hurricane Deck of a Mule, an account of a mule-back journey she made in Honduras in August 1891.
The book was published in 1893 by the Knickerbocker Press, and the Project Gutenberg edition notes that it was issued after her death for distribution among her relatives and friends. That gives her work an unusual intimacy: it reads not like a polished public career statement, but like a firsthand record preserved because the people around her wanted it to last.
Very little biographical information appears to be widely available today beyond her authorship of this book and the fact that she died in 1894. Even so, her writing has endured because of its clear voice, humor, and the sheer toughness behind the journey it describes.