Excerpt: "e;When the beautiful Sally Habersham accepted Dick Ogilvie her girl associates rejoiced quite as much as she did, foreseeing the return to their orbits of sundry temporarily diverted masculine satellites.
Excerpt: "e;Captain Joshua Fairley was pulling on the thick woolen stockings that would protect his ordinary socks and his trousers-legs from the harshness and oiliness of his great sea-boots.
Excerpt: "e;When the bottoms drop out of the logging-roads, the crews leave the camps about the headwaters of Racket River and return to their scattered homes, leaving the winter's cut on the "e;brows.
Excerpt: "e;If the mission of the little school-house in Holly Cove was to impress upon the youthful mind a comprehension and appreciation of the eternal verities of nature, its site could hardly have been better chosen.
The reader is treated to a story that takes place in Western Canada around 1874 or so, with Mounties out to get their men, a lady in peril, a prairie fire, murders, stolen gold, true friendships, and rainstorms.
Excerpt: "e;Dressed in a plain white shirt waist and an equally plain black cloth skirt, Miss Hazel Weir, on weekdays, was merely a unit in the office force of Harrington & Bush, implement manufacturers.
Excerpt: "e;Lone Moose snaked its way through levels of woodland and open stretches of meadow, looping sinuously as a sluggish python-a python that rested its mouth upon the shore of Lake Athabasca while its tail was lost in a great area of spruce forest and poplar groves, of reedy sloughs and hushed lakes far northward.
Excerpt: "e;Long, Long Ago The Gulf of Georgia spread away endlessly, an immense, empty stretch of water bared to the hot eye of an August sun, its broad face only saved from oily smoothness by half-hearted flutterings of a westerly breeze.
Written in the style of a short story, without excessive detail or extraneous characters, this is the story of Bud Moore, who after his wife leaves him, unknowingly gets caught up in a crazy scheme that necessitates his running for his life across the Southwest on foot, until he meets and teams up with an old prospector, Cash Markham.
A very unusual Western novel: a young cowboy dreams of flight and thinks he'll learn in time to be ready to go to the front lines in his airship when the US enters WW1.
Der Ölprinz Karl May - Einem Betrug mit einer Ölquelle sind in dieser spannenden Erzählung Winnetou und Old Shatterhand auf der Spur, und mit ihnen viele weitere Westmänner: Hobble-Frank, Tante Droll und das lustige 'Kleeblatt' Sam Hawkens, Dick Stone und Will Parker.
Abenteuer und Fahrten des Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain - Dieser Roman stellt eine Fortsetzung des 1876 erschienenen Romans Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer dar und wird häufig mit diesem in einem Band veröffentlicht.
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy - Two on a Tower is a novel by English author Thomas Hardy, classified by him as a romance and fantasy and now regarded as one of his minor works.
A Lost Lady Willa Cather - A Lost Lady tells the story of Marian Forrester and her husband, Captain Daniel Forrester who live in the Western town of Sweet Water, along the Transcontinental Railroad.
Once upon a time, two brothers wished to preserve their German folklore in a collection of tales that they believed had been handed down for generations.