A text about the siege of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in 1203-1204. Authored by eighteen-year-old New Rochelle, New York, amateur journalist William M. Goadby (1860-1890); he became a clerk and bookkeeper in Denver, Colorado. Publisher George Eugene Bryson (1864-1912) was a Hawkinsville, Florida amateur journalist who later worked in the newspaper business in Havana, Cuba.