Who?

 He was...

      "an expelled seminarian, a dishwasher and cook, a translator, a plagiarizing journalist, a deserter of the United States Army, a journalist (again), and a miner."

     AND he built a library in Colorado in the 1800's that he named "Hotel de Paris". Included in the library collection was this unlikely volume:

 

HERE is the story of Louis Dupuy's unusual life.