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Fitz-Mac
1847–1910
A lively Colorado journalist and storyteller, this writer captured the personalities, politics, and mining-world drama of the late American West. Writing under the pen name "Fitz-Mac," he left behind a body of newspaper work that mixed commentary, local color, verse, and fiction.
1 Audiobook
The Prospector, and The Silver Queen
by Cy Warman, Fitz-Mac
About the author
Born Fitz-James MacCarthy in Baldwinsville, New York, in 1847, he became best known by the pen name Fitz-Mac. Archival records identify him as a Colorado journalist who moved west in the early 1880s and worked for a number of Colorado newspapers.
His surviving scrapbooks suggest a wide-ranging career. They include articles on Colorado personalities, political commentary, mining, as well as verse and fiction, which helps explain why his writing feels at home both in journalism and in literary sketches of Western life.
Fitz-Mac died in Phoenix, Arizona, on November 14, 1910. While he is not widely remembered today, library and archival records show a writer closely connected to the everyday energy of Colorado in its formative years.