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Alfred Lewis

The Apaches of New YorkAlfred Henry Lewis The Apaches of New York TO ARTHUR WEST LITTLE These stories are true in name and time and place. None of them in its incident happened as far away as three years ago. They were written to show you how the other half live – in New York. I had them direct f...

Sandburrs and OthersAlfred Henry Lewis Sandburrs and Others PREFACEA SANDBURR is a foolish, small vegetable, irritating and grievously useless. Therefore this volume of sketches is named Sandburrs. Some folk there be who apologize for the birth of a book. There’s scant propriety of it. A book is ...

The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New YorkAlfred Henry Lewis The Boss, and How He Came to Rule New York THE WORD OF PREFACEIt should be said in the beginning that these memoirs will not be written by my own hand. I have no skill of pen and ink, and any relation of length would be beyond my genius...

When Men Grew Tall, or The Story Of Andrew JacksonAlfred Henry Lewis When Men Grew Tall, or The Story Of Andrew Jackson CHAPTER I – SALISBURY AND THE LAW IN this year of our Lord’s grace, 1787, the ancient town of Salisbury, seat of justice for Rowan County, and the buzzing metropolis of its regi...

An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron BurrAlfred Henry Lewis An American Patrician, or The Story of Aaron Burr / Illustrated CHAPTER I – FROM THEOLOGY TO LAW THE Right Reverend Doctor Bellamy is a personage of churchly consequence in Bethlehem. Indeed, the doctor is a personage of churchly...

The Sunset TrailThe Sunset Trail INTRODUCTION It was in my thoughts, as I wrote these chapters and arranged their sequence, to fix in types a phase of American existence that, within the touch of present time, has passed away. The West has witnessed more changes than has the East. The common impr...

Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville StoriesLewis Alfred Henry Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories I DEAD SHOT BAKER "Which you never knows Dead Shot Baker?"This, from the old cattleman, with a questioning glance my way."No? Well, you shore misses knowin' a man! Still, it ain't none so s...