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.
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.
