Original and unabridged with all original illustrationsIn the 1890s Ingersoll Lockwood authored a series of childrenamprsquos books about the escapades of his character the young Baron Trump Travels and Adventures of Little Baron Trump and his Wonderful Dog Bulger and Baron Trumpamprsquos Marvellous Underground Journey The series followed a literary trend of the time which had child protagonists adventuring to enchanted lands and encountering fantastic beings Lewis Carrollamprsquos Alice in Wonderland and L Frank Baumamprsquos The Wonderful Wizard of Oz are two famous examples of this genreLockwoodamprsquos Baron is an aristocratic youth bored with his life of luxury in Castle Trump Searching for adventure Baron travels to Russia to discover an underground world beneath his feet He journeys downward and finds himself lost in peculiar settings surrounded by the strange inhabitants of this new world The stories follow his adventures and eventual struggle to find his way back to the surface he left behindThe Baron Trump novels were obscured by the more successful childrenamprsquos books of the time Lockwoodamprsquos tall tales seemed destined for the literary dust bin but the election of Donald Trump in 2016 renewed interest in these works due to the Presidentamprsquos youngest sonamprsquos name Barron Trump Now back in print the Baron Trump series is enjoying considerable interest and success
