THE COVERED WAGON is one of the classic sagas of the American West, set in the days of the settlement of the far frontier in the Northwest. Gatherings of families join together in the spring west of the Mississippi to form long wagon trains heading across the Great Plains and over the Continental Divide to Oregon and a new life. They are beset by the hardships of nature, fear, starvation, and hostile Indians, and they suffer much, but their eventual success is one of the triumphs of our national history.

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Ah, but it was a sweet and wonderful thing to see Miss Lady dance, a strange and wondrous thing! She was so sweet, so strong, so full of grace, so like a bird in all her motions! Now here, now there, and back again, her feet scarce touching the floor, her loose skirt, held out between her dainty fingers, resembling wings, she swam through the air, up and down the room of the old plantation house, as though she were indeed the...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - "Look at 'em come, Jesse More and more Must be forty or fifty families." Molly Wingate, middle-aged, portly, dark browed and strong, stood at the door of the rude tent which for the time made her home. She was pointing down the road which lay like an ecru ribbon thrown down across the prairie grass, bordered beyond by the timber-grown bluffs of the Missouri. Jesse Wingate allowed his team of harness-marked horses to continue...

In the old American west there were many men and boys who chose to live by the gun...and die by the gun. Some died by the Vigilante's Rope. The stories of Billy the Kid, The James Boys, The Dalton Gang, Tom Pickett, Bill Chadwell and many, many others can be read in this wonderful, fact-filled book originally published in 1907. This book is part of the Historical Collection of Badgley Publishing Company and has been transcribed from the original. The original contents have been edited and corrections have been made to original printing, spelling and grammatical errors when not in conflict...

The frontier There is no word in the English language more stirring, more intimate, or more beloved. It has in it all the elan of the old French phrase, En avant It carries all of the old Saxon command, Forward It means all that America ever meant. It means the old hope of a real personal liberty, and yet a real human advance in character and achievement. To a genuine American it is the dearest word in all the world.

"54-40 or Fight" from Emerson Hough. American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels (1857-1923).

"Heart's Desire" from Emerson Hough. American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels (1857-1923).

"The Broken Gate" from Emerson Hough. American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels (1857-1923).