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The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in CaliforniaGustave Aimard The Treasure of Pearls A Romance of Adventures in California CHAPTER I. THE PIECES AND THE BOARD We stand on Mexican soil. We are on the seaward skirt of its westernmost State of Sonora, in the wild lands almost washed by...

An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New WestAlfred Ernest Rice An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West INTRODUCTORY In the year 19 – a legend adorned with gold and bearing the significant words, “The Securities Investment Association, Mr. Philip Rutley, President, Mr. J...

The Phantom Town MysteryCarol Norton The Phantom Town Mystery CHAPTER I LUCKY LOON A whirl of gleaming sand and dust on a cross desert road in Arizona. The four galloping objects turned off the road, horses rearing, riders laughing; the two Eastern girls flushed, excited; the pale college student...

Girl Scouts in the RockiesLillian Elizabeth Roy Girl Scouts in the Rockies CHAPTER ONE – OUTFITTING FOR THE TRIP “Girls, this is our third Summer as the Dandelion Troop of Girl Scouts, – do you realize that fact?” commented Mrs. Vernon, generally called “Verny” by the girls, or “Captain” by her f...

Frank in the MountainsHarry Castlemon Frank in the Mountains CHAPTER I THE FOOT-RACE One sultry afternoon in September, about four weeks after the occurrence of the events we have attempted to describe in the second volume of this series, Frank and Archie found themselves comfortably settled in n...

Jack Ranger's Gun Club: or, From Schoolroom to Camp and TrailClarence Young Jack Ranger's Gun Club; Or, From Schoolroom to Camp and Trail CHAPTER I JACK WINS A RACE “Now, then, are you all ready?”“I’m as ready as I ever shall be,” answered Jack Ranger, in reply to the question from Sam Chalmers. ...

Overland TalesJosephine Clifford Overland Tales PREFACEIn the book I now lay before the reader, I have collected a series of stories and sketches of journeyings through California, Arizona, and New Mexico. There is little of fiction, even in the stories; and the sketches, I flatter myself, are tr...

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...

The Road BuildersSamuel Merwin The Road Builders CHAPTER I YOUNG VAN ENGAGES A COOK The S. & W. was hoping some day to build a large station with a steel and glass trainshed at Sherman. Indeed, a side elevation of the structure, drawn to scale and framed in black walnut, had hung for a number...

Sawtooth RanchB. M. Bower Sawtooth Ranch CHAPTER I LITTLE FISH Quirt Creek flowed sluggishly between willows which sagged none too gracefully across its deeper pools, or languished beside the rocky stretches that were bone dry from July to October, with a narrow channel in the centre where what w...