[mountaineer]

Looks like "Ignatius Phayre" was a penname for one William George Fitzgerald, who also wrote this:

Name: Phayre , Ignatius [Fitzgerald, William George]
Title: "The Apostle of Unrestraint"

Publication: Can America Last? A Survey of the Emigrant Empire from the Wilderness to World Power, Together with Its Claims to "Sovereignty" in the Western Hemisphere from Pole to Pole
Publisher: J. Murray
City: London
Date: 1933
Pages: 127-41

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/jefferson/bibliog/shuf1/shufP.html

[yonif]

Thanks for the additional information about this author.

[bwteim]

Some good digging!