Bettersworth, Alexander Pitts
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1830-1903) US author whose anonymous The Strange Ms by _______ MD (1883) presents a manuscript, seemingly composed in 1881, which predicts a worldwide Disaster in a very Near Future 1884, when a Comet strikes the earth, creating vast fire storms, shifting the world's axis, melting the polar ice, eliminating almost all humans. A few survivors trek north to Canada, where they hope to mate and start civilization off again. [JC]
Alexander Pitts Bettersworth
born 1830
died Illinois?: 1903
works
- The Strange Ms by _______ MD (Springfield, Illinois: H W Rokker, 1883) [hb/nonpictorial]
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