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GoldWhite Stewart Edward Gold PART I PANAMA CHAPTER I OH, SUSANNAH! Somewhere in this book I must write a paragraph exclusively about myself. The fact that in the outcome of all these stirring events I have ended as a mere bookkeeper is perhaps a good reason why one paragraph will be enough. In m...

In the Brooding WildCullum Ridgwell In the Brooding Wild CHAPTER I. ON THE MOUNTAINSIDE To the spirit which broods over the stupendous solitudes of the northern Rockies, the soul of man, with all its complex impulses, is but so much plastic material which it shapes to its own inscrutable ends. Fo...

The Coming of the LawSeltzer Charles Alden The Coming of the Law CHAPTER I THE ARRIVAL OF THE MAN If the passengers on the west-bound train that pulled up at the little red wooden station at Dry Bottom at the close of a June day in 18–, were interested in the young man bearing the two suit cases,...

The Price of the Prairie: A Story of KansasMargaret Hill McCarter The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas PROEM "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her"I can hear it always – the Call of the Prairie. The passing of sixty Winters has left me a vigorous man, although my hair is as whi...

Frances of the Ranges: or, The Old Ranchman's TreasureMarlowe Amy Bell Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman's Treasure CHAPTER I THE ADVENTURE IN THE COULIE The report of a bird gun made the single rider in sight upon the short-grassed plain pull in her pinto and gaze westerly toward the s...

Money Magic: A NovelGarland Hamlin Money Magic: A Novel CHAPTER I THE CLERK OF THE GOLDEN EAGLE Sibley Junction is in the sub-tropic zone of Colorado. It lies in a hot, dry, but immensely productive valley at an altitude of some four thousand feet above the sea, a village laced with irrigating di...

The PlundererNorton Roy The Plunderer TOREX BEACHWITH ALL THE AFFECTION THAT ONEGIVES TO A PARTNER WITH WHOMHE HAS TRAILED, AND MINED, AND ADVENTUREDFOR MANY YEARS, AND NEVER FOUND WANTINGWHEN BACKS WERE AGAINST THE WALLCHAPTER I BULLY PRESBY Plainly the rambling log structure was a road house an...

The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle countryCullum Ridgwell The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country CHAPTER I A GENTLEMAN RANKER Dan McLagan shifted his cigar, and his face lit with a grin of satisfaction.“Seventy-five per cent, of calves,” he murmured, glancing out at the sunlit yar...

Shadow MountainCoolidge Dane Shadow Mountain CHAPTER I The Last of Ten Thousand Under the rim of Shadow Mountain, embraced like a pearl of great price by the curve of Bonanza Point and the mined-out slope of Gold Hill, the deserted city of Keno lay brooding and silent in the sun. A dry, gusty win...

Frank Merriwell's Backers: or, The Pride of His FriendsStandish Burt L. Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends CHAPTER I. IN THE TRAP Millions of bright stars shone serenely through the clear Arizona night, shedding their soft white light on the great arid plains and the mysterio...