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The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the TrailMargaret Vandercook The Camp Fire Girls at the End of the Trail CHAPTER I A Strange Background The castle had been built before the first known palace in Europe. It was fashioned centuries ago inside the walls of a stone cliff with two taller cliffs risi...

Mason of Bar X RanchMason of Bar X Ranch CHAPTER I – A HARD PROPOSITION Jack Mason, a young man of twenty-one years, was intently watching a billiard game in progress at a fashionable club in New York City. It was a hot sultry day in June and he was wondering how people could enjoy knocking a bun...

Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost MineLone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine A lone pine stands in the NorthlandOn a bald and barren height.He sleeps, by the snows enfoldedIn a mantle of wintry white.He dreams of a lonely palm-tree,Afar in the morning-land,Consumed with unspoken longingIn a waste of bu...

A Prairie InfantaA Prairie Infanta CHAPTER ONE THE POWER OF CONSOLATION At the first glance there appeared to be nothing unusual in the scene confronting Miss Jane Combs as she stood, broad and heavy, in her doorway that May morning, looking up and down the single street of the little Colorado mi...

The Heart of Canyon PassHolmes Thomas K. The Heart of Canyon Pass CHAPTER I – DISCONTENT AT CANYON PASS The bluebird was no harbinger of spring at Canyon Pass. Most of the inhabitants had never seen that feathered songster and many had never heard of it. Incidentally these same Passonians would n...

The Delafield AffairFlorence Finch Kelly The Delafield Affair CHAPTER I VENGEANCE AVOWED Curtis Conrad turned from superintending repairs on the adobe wall, and walked across the corral to the gate at the opposite side. As he filled his pipe he looked across the wide, greenish-gray New Mexican pl...

The Ranch Girls at Home AgainVandercook Margaret The Ranch Girls at Home Again CHAPTER I THE RACE AN hour before sunset a number of persons were standing in a small group facing the western horizon. But although the prairie was covered with a crop of young grass, a pale green mirror to reflect th...

The Ranch Girls' Pot of GoldVandercook Margaret The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold CHAPTER I THE GYPSY CARAVAN "A HUNDRED dollars a month – it's a fortune!" Jean Bruce exclaimed gayly, pirouetting about on her tip-toes in front of a huge Japanese umbrella fastened upright in the ground in the middle of...

The Heritage of the HillsHankins Arthur Preston The Heritage of the Hills CHAPTER I AT HALFMOON FLAT The road wound ever upward through pines and spruce and several varieties of oak. Some of the latter were straight, some sprawling, all massive. Now and then a break in the timber revealed wooded ...

Bat Wing BowlesCoolidge Dane Bat Wing Bowles CHAPTER I MR. BOWLES It was a fine windy morning in March and Dixie Lee, of Chula Vista, Arizona, was leaving staid New York at the gate marked "Western Limited." A slight difference with the gatekeeper, who seemed to doubt every word she said, cast no...