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Fitz-Mac
1847–1910
A Colorado journalist and Western writer, this author is best remembered for lively sketches of politics and frontier life. Writing under the pen name “Fitz-Mac,” he brought the energy of late-19th-century newspaper culture into books and articles about the American West.
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The Prospector, and The Silver Queen
by Cy Warman, Fitz-Mac
About the author
Born in 1847 in Baldwinsville, New York, he was born Fitz-James MacCarthy and later became known mainly by his pen name, “Fitz-Mac.” He moved to Colorado in the early 1880s and worked for several Colorado newspapers, building a reputation as a journalist with a strong interest in public life and Western subjects.
His work included Political Portraits, a collection first prepared for the Daily Gazette of Colorado Springs, as well as writing connected with Western history and adventure. He is also listed as a co-author of The Prospector, and The Silver Queen, a story tied to the mining world of Colorado.
MacCarthy died on November 14, 1910, in Phoenix, Arizona. Though not widely known today, his writing offers a vivid glimpse of Colorado journalism, politics, and frontier storytelling at the end of the 19th century.