Ulysses Paxton

Ulysses Paxton was born in 1894 in Plattsburgh, New York, on the shores of Lake Champlain. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned as an infantry officer before entering active service during World War I. An avid reader of Edgar Rice Burroughs' works, Mr. Paxton is known to have read them during the long, difficult days spent in the trenches at La Carrière Wellington, outside Paris. It was there that he was critically injured, setting him on the path to today. Many of his adventures thereafter have been faithfully recorded elsewhere. They have also led to the creation of this archive.

The memoirs transmitted and preserved here are drawn from a collection of documents that Mr. Paxton accessed during his travels.

As with all historical records, the facts they purport to describe are ultimately unknowable. Readers are therefore advised to consider carefully the distinction between what is recorded and what is real—particularly where such accounts touch upon the future of Earth, or of Mars.

Mr. Paxton makes no claim to authorship of the documents presented here, nor of the events they describe. The original memoirs were written in English, and only grammatical corrections to meet current Earth literary standards have been applied.

These works are presented solely as records he has recently felt compelled to preserve and pass along to the people of his beloved homeworld.

This site serves as an archive of those recovered artifacts.