First edition: Edward S. Ellis. The Steam Man of the Prairies. Beadle's American Novel. No. 45. August 1868. School teacher Edward Ellis (1840-1916) wrote about five hundred books under various pseudonyms. Among them are adventure novels (“ten-cent novels”), biographies, and textbooks. In the novel The Prairie Steam Man (1868), the protagonist creates a humanoid steam engine and travels through the Wild West. The novel gave birth to a special genre of fiction - the Edisonade, stories about fantastic inventions. The original text has entered the public domain. Here is the first translation into Russian. The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.