DATE: late 1860 through April 12, 1861
EVENT: John Carter is visiting relatives in Virginia.
SOURCE: "My first recollection of Captain Carter is of the few months he spent at my father's home in Virginia, just prior to the opening of the Civil War." ERB-A Princes Of Mars.
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| Essays On Mars |
DATE: April 12, 1861
EVENT: John Carte left the family plantation and fought in the Civil War.
SOURCE: "When the war broke out he left us." ERB-A PRINCES OF MARS.
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| A Princess Of Mars |
DATE: April 1865
EVENT: John Carter set out for the Southwest to prospect for gold.
SOURCE: "At the close of the Civil War I found myself possessed several hundred thousand dollars (Confederate) a captain's commission in the cavalry arm of an army which no longer existed; the servant of a state which vanished the hopes of the South, Masterless, penniless, and with my only means livelihood, hunting, gone, Determined to work my to the southwest and attempted to retrieve my fallen fortunes in search for gold." ERB-A Princes Of Mars.
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| A Princess Of Mars |
Date: late winter, 1865
EVENT: John Carter and James K. Powell discover gold in Arizona.
SOURCE: "We were extremely fortunate, for late in the winter of 1865, after many hardships and privations, we located the most remarkable gold-bearing quartz vein that our wildest dreams had ever pictured." ERB-A Princes Of Mars.
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| A Princess Of Mars |
DATE: March 3, 1866
EVENT: John Carter sends Powell after machinery and men to work the mine. Powell is captured by Apaches and Carter stages a daring rescue.
SOURCE: "On Mare 3, 1866, Powell and I packed his provisions on two of our burros, and bidding me good-bye he mounted his horse, and started down the mountainside toward the valley, across which led the first stage of his journey." ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princess Of Mars |
DATE: March 4, 1866
EVENT: While fleeing from the Apaches, Carter discovers a cave at daybreak and takes refuge. He is then overcome by a strange paralysis and around midnight experiences an astral projection.
SOURCE: "It was now morning, and, with the customary lack of dawn which is a startling characteristic of Arizona, it had become daylight almost with a warning. ERB-A Princes Of Mars.
"From then until possibly midnight all was silence." ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princess Of Mars |
DATE: March 1876
Event: John Carter returns to Earth from his first trip to Barsoom.
SOURCE: "I was looking upon Arizona from the same ledge from which the years before he had gazed with longing upon Mars." ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princes Of Mars |
DATE: winter of 1885
EVENT: ERB, the narrator, visited John Carter at his New York home and observed him writing a manuscript
SOURCE: "Captain Carter had a small but beautiful cottage, situated on a bluff overlooking the river, and during one of, my visits, in the winter of 1885, I observed he was much occupied in writing, I presume, now, upon this manuscript." ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princes Of Mars |
DATE: First of March, 1886
EVENT: John Carter sent ERB, the narrator, a telegram and requested a visit to the Hotel Raleigh in Richmond.
SOURCE: "Several months after I had returned home from my last visit, the first of March, 1866, I think, I received a telegram from him asking me to come to him at once.” ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princes Of Mars |
DATE: March 4, 1886
EVENT: John Carter was found dead shortly after dawn.
SOURCE: "I arrived at the little station, about a mile from his grounds on the morning of March 4, 1886, and when I asked the liveryman to drive me out to Captain Carter's he replied that if I was friend of the Captain's he had some very bad news for me; the Captain had been found dead shortly after daylight that very morning by the watchman attached to an adjoining property." ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princes Of Mars |
DATE: August 1898
EVENT: John Carter sent ERB, the narrator, a telegram and requested a visit to the Raleigh Hotel in Richmond.
SOURCE: "Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond." ERB-A Princess Of Mars.
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| A Princes Of Mars |
DATE: August 1898
EVENT: John Carter and his great-nephew ERB, the narrator, meet in Richmond.
SOURCE: "Early the next morning I took the first train for Richmond and within two hours was being ushered into the room occupied by John Carter." ERB-The Gods Of Mars.
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| The Gods Of Mars |
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DATE: None Provided
EVENT: John Carter spent a few weeks in the White Mountains of Arizona."
SOURCE: No exact dates are provided in Swords Of Mars, but due to the rapid writing output of ERB, the events in general usually occur around the same time as the recording. Since Swords Of Mars began on November 6, 1933, logic dictates that John Carter's visit occurred shortly before this date.
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| Swords Of Mars |
DATE: circa January or February 1938
EVENT: John Carter searches for RaThavas to heal Dejah Thoris.
SOURCE:
These events are transmitted from Ulysses Paxton to Jason Gridley via the Gridley Wave and then passed on to ERB, the narrator. No fates are provided in Synthetic Men Of Mars, but since that book was written on March 2, 1938, logic dictates that John Carter's adventures occurred shortly before this date.
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| Synthetic Men Of Mars |
DATE: circa November 1940
EVENT: John Carter visits ERB, the narrator, for the last recorded time on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii.
SOURCE: "Lanikai is a district, a beach, a Post, and a grocery store. It lies on the windward shore of the Island of Oahu." ERB-Llana Of Gothal.
No dates are provided in Llana Of Gothal; but due to ERB's rapid writing output, the events generally occur around the same time as their recording. Since Llana Of Gothal was written on November 16, 1940, dictates John Carter's visit takes place shortly before this date.
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| Llana Of Gothal |
DATE: late 1940
EVENT: John Carter battles Pew Mogel over the iron works of Helium.
SOURCE: The Giant of Mars does not provide a date, and ERB's notebook does not show that this is his story.
CHAT: Most researchers agree that John Coleman Burroughs, ERB's son, wrote this short story for Whitman's Big Book in 1939 or 1940. Eventually, the story was expanded and in January 1941, it was published by Ray Palmer in Amazing Stories.
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| The Giants Of Mars |
DATE: circa October 1941
EVENT: John Carter goes to Sasoom.
SOURCE: There is no date provided in Skeleton Men Of Jupiter. but since ERB began writing the story on October 25, 1941, logic dictates John Carter's adventures took place before this date.
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| Skeleton Men Of Jupiter |
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Michael Moody is a lifelong fan and collector of Edger Rice Burroughs. Moody has contributed over two hundred articles to various ERB-related fanzines over forty-five years. He also manages an unauthorized Tarzan blog titled, Greystoke Chronologist: James Michael Moody. There the researcher chronologies the Tarzan books starting in May 1872 (known as the pushback theory) instead of the more accepted date, May 1888.
James Michael Moody is also the author of the action-packed Sci-Fi fantasy adventure Unium series. Pioneers On Unium, published December 31, 2019, Exiled On Unium, published August 25, 2022, and Swordsman On Unium published on July 15, 2024.
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