Keeler, Ralph Olmstead

Keeler, Ralph Olmstead( 1840–73),
Ohio-born journalist, whose Vagabond Adventures (1870) describes his life in a minstrel show, as a Heidelberg student, tramping through Europe, and as a San Francisco columnist. He also wrote feature articles for Eastern journals, became a proofreader on the Atlantic through Howells's aid, and wrote a novel set in California, Gloverson and His Silent Partners (1869).