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The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the WildernessMayne Reid The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Chapter One. The Great American Desert There is a great desert in the interior of North America. It is almost as large as the famous Saära of Africa. It ...

The Man Who Would Be KingRudyard Kipling The Man Who Would Be King THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING “Brother to a Prince and fellow to a beggar if he be found worthy.” The Law, as quoted, lays down a fair conduct of life, and one not easy to follow. I have been fellow to a beggar again and again under c...

Soldiers Three - Part 2 Rudyard Kipling Soldiers Three - Part 2 ‘LOVE-O’WOMEN’ A lamentable tale of things Done long ago, and ill done. The horror, the confusion, and the separation of the murderer from his comrades were all over before I came. There remained only on the barrack-square the blood ...

Gabriel ConroyBOOK I. ON THE THRESHOLDCHAPTER I. WITHOUT CHAPTER II. WITHIN CHAPTER III. GABRIEL CHAPTER IV. NATURE SHOWS THEM THE WAY CHAPTER V. OUT OF THE WOODS – INTO THE SHADOW CHAPTER VI. FOOTPRINTS CHAPTER VII. IN WHICH THE FOOTPRINTS BEGIN TO FADE CHAPTER VIII. THE FOOTPRINTS GROW FAINTER ...

The Son of his FatherCullum Ridgwell The Son of his Father CHAPTER I UNREPENTANT "To wine, women and gambling, at the age of twenty-four – one hundred thousand dollars. That's your bill, my boy, and – I've got to pay it."James Carbhoy leaned back smiling, his half-humorous eyes squarely challengi...

Two Boy Gold Miners: or, Lost in the MountainsFrank V. Webster Two Boy Gold Miners; Or, Lost in the Mountains CHAPTER I HARD TIMES "What's the matter, Enos?" asked a rather elderly and careworn looking woman, as she stood in the kitchen door of a small farmhouse.The man to whom she had spoken was...

The Chalice Of Courage: A Romance of ColoradoBrady Cyrus Townsend The Chalice Of Courage: A Romance of Colorado PREFACE Prefaces, like much study, are a weariness to the flesh; to some people, not to me. I can conceive of no literary proposition more attractive than the opportunity to write unlim...

The Little Colonel in ArizonaJohnston Annie F. Annie Fellows The Little Colonel in Arizona CHAPTER I. MARY TELLS ALL SHE KNOWS "Joyce," said Jack Ware, stopping beside his sister's seat in the long, Western-bound train, "I wish you'd go back into the observation-car, and make Mary stop talking. S...

The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena VistaAltsheler Joseph A. Joseph Alexander The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista CHAPTER I THE MEETING OF THE FOUR A tall boy, dreaming dreams, was walking acrossthe Place d'Armes in New Orleans. It was abrilliant ...

Trumpeter Fred: A Story of the PlainsCharles King Trumpeter Fred: A Story of the Plains CHAPTER I. A DANGEROUS MISSION THERE were only thirty in all that night when the troop reached the Niobrara and unsaddled along the grassy banks. Rather slim numbers for the duty to be performed, and with the ...