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Murat Halstead (September 2, 1829 – July 2, 1908) was an American newspaper editor and magazine writer.^[1][2]

His reports from the 1860 presidential election have been collected as Three against Lincoln; Murat Halstead reports the caucuses of 1860, ed. William Best Hesseltine. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1960. OCLC 337677.

He also wrote a number of books, including:

• The illustrious life of William McKinley : our martyred president 1901
• The story of Cuba her struggles for liberty ; the cause, crisis and destiny of the Pearl of the Antilles 1896 and 1898
• Life of Jay Gould how he made his millions 1892
• The story of the Philippines. Natural riches, industrial resources, statistics of productions, commerce and population; the laws, habits, customs, scenery, and conditions of the Cuba of the East Indies, and the thousand islands of the archipelagoes of India and Hawaii, with episodes of their early history ... Events of the war in the west with Spain, and the conquest of Cuba and Porto Rico 1898
• Life and achievement of Admiral Dewey from Montpelier to Manila 1899
• Galveston the horrors of a stricken city ; portraying by pen and picture the awful calamity that befell the Queen city on the gulf and the terrible scenes that followed the disaster 1900, reprinted 1980
• Pictorial history of America's new possessions, the isthmian canals, and the problem of expansion 1898
• Our Country in War and Relations with All Nations 1898

References

External references

• Works by Murat Halstead at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Murat Halstead in libraries (WorldCat catalog)