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From the writer and genuine Western Trail cattle driver, responsible for some of the best and most realistic accounts of cowboy life in literature. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain...

Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction.Author: Ernest BramahPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 03, 2015Number of...

Excerpt from Kai Lung's Golden Hours Homo faber. Man is born to make. His business is to construct: to plan: to carry out the plan: to fit together, and to produce a finished thing. That human art in which it is most difficult to achieve this end (and in...

Ernest Bramah was an English author who wrote popular books in many different genres including humor, detective fiction and science fiction.Author: Ernest BramahPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 03, 2015Number of...

"And this is Kieff!" Thus spoke to himself a young man named Yosef Shvarts, on entering the ancient city, when, roused by toll-gate formalities, he saw himself unexpectedly among buildings and streets. The heart quivered in him joyfully. He was young, he...

"So Runs the World" from Henryk Sienkiewicz. Polish journalist and Nobel Prize-winning novelist (1846-1916).Author: S. C. De SoissonsPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 03, 2015Number of Pages: 114 pagesBinding:...

What a change from the Arizona desert The words broke from the lips of Ken Ward as he leaned from the window of the train which was bearing his brother and himself over the plateau to Tampico in Tamaulipas, the southeastern state of Mexico. He had caught...

To capture the fish is not all of the fishing. Yet there are circumstances which make this philosophy hard to accept. I have in mind an incident of angling tribulation which rivals the most poignant instant of my boyhood, when a great trout flopped for...

Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo Hutter. Kilbourne's fiancee, Carley Burch, arrives in Arizona but soon becomes disillusioned with life in the West...

It is the story of Daren Lane, who returns from the battlefields of World War I to a society tired of hearing about the war and declining morals. It is set in Middletown USA. It is set on the Victorian era's side in the culture conflict with the Roaring...

Known by the Indians as le vent de la mort (the wind of death), Wetzel and his partner Jonathan Zane are hard on the trail of white rustlers led by Simon Girty and Bing Leggitt. One night at their campfire Helen Sheppard and her father, who have become...

This is the record of a trip which the author took with Buffalo Jones, known as the preserver of the American bison, across the Arizona desert and of a hunt in "that wonderful country of deep canons and giant pines."Author: Zane GreyPublisher:...

Excerpt from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel "But the man's almost dead." The words stung John Hare's fainting spirit into life. He opened his eyes. The desert still stretched before him, the appalling thing that had overpowered him with its...

Texas was a huge wide place full of frontiersmen, ranchers, farmers, cowpokes, shiftless no-accounts, shootists, rascals, and politicians all of them blended together into a single state. The Rangers lawmen, Texas Rangers were outnumbered a thousand to...

Inez: A Tale of The AlamoAuthor: Augusta J. EvansPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 30, 2015Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517115930ISBN-13: 9781517115937

A stirring romance of life on an Idaho ranch.Author: B. M. BowerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 30, 2015Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 151711652XISBN-13: 9781517116521

In northern Montana there lies a great, lonely stretch of prairie land, gashed deep where flows the Missouri. Indeed, there are many such-big, impassive, impressive in their very loneliness, in summer given over to the winds and the meadow larks and to...

Without going into a deep, psychological discussion of the elements in men's souls that breed events, we may say with truth that the Lazy A ranch was as other ranches in the smooth tenor of its life until one day in June, when the finger of fate wrote...

Before I die, I'll ride the sky; I'll part the clouds like foam. I'll brand each star with the Rolling R, And lead the Great Bear home. I'll circle Mars to beat the cars, On Venus I will call. If she greets me fair as I ride the air, To meet her I will...

A lively and amusing story, dealing with the adventures of eighteen jovial, big hearted Montana cowboys.Author: B. M. BowerPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 30, 2015Number of Pages: 152 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

Excerpt from The Gringos: A Story of the Old California Days in 1849 If you would glimpse the savage which normally lies asleep, thank God, in most of us, you have only to do this thing of which I shall tell you, and from some safe sanctuary where leaden...

Old Applehead Furrman, jogging home across the mesa from Albuquerque, sniffed the soft breeze that came from opal-tinted distances and felt poignantly that spring was indeed here. The grass, thick and green in the sheltered places, was fast painting all...

From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in with the heavy impetus of high tide, flinging long streamers of kelp and bits of driftwood over the narrowing stretch of sand where garishly costumed bathers had lately shrieked...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve...

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 center where what water there was...

Luck Lindsay had convoyed his thirty-five actor-Indians to their reservation at Pine Ridge, and had turned them over to the agent in good condition and a fine humor and nice new hair hatbands and other fixings; while their pockets were heavy with dollars...

Since Life is no more than a series of achievements and failures, this story is going to begin exactly where the teller of tales usually stops. It is going to begin with Johnny Jewel an accepted lover and with one of his dearest ambitions realized. It is...

The Young MaidenAuthor: A. B. MuzzeyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 30, 2015Number of Pages: 138 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517117941ISBN-13: 9781517117948

"[...]headway through the residential and business parts of Sunnyside, but when they turned toward the hills, on the west side of the village, they found that the snow-ploughs had not been so accommodating. Willowbend Lane was covered with deep, soft...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition.Author: Charles E. Van LoanPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublication Date: Aug 30, 2015Number of Pages: 188 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10: 1517118891ISBN-13:...