Excerpt from The Purchase Price: Or the Cause of Compromise
"Madam, you are charming You have not slept, and yet you smile. No man could ask a better prisoner."
She turned to him, smiling faintly.
"I thank you. At least we have had breakfast, and for such mercy I am grateful to my jailer. I admit I was famished. What now?"
With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks. In turn he smiled and also shrugged a...

Excerpt from The Mississippi Bubble: How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again
Book II: The Door Of The West; The Storm; Au Large; The Pathway Of The Waters; Messasebe; Maize; The Brink Of Change; Tous Sauvages; The Dream; By The Hilt Of The Sword; The Iroquois; Prisoners Of The Iroquois; The Sacrifice; The Embassy; The Great Peace; Book III: The Grand Monarque; Ever Said She Nay; Search Thou My Heart
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"The Passing of the Frontier" from Emerson Hough. American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels (1857-1923).

"The Way of a Man" from Emerson Hough. American author best known for writing western stories and historical novels (1857-1923).

Excerpt from The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West
"Sim," said Wid gardner, as he cast a frowning glance around him, "take it one way with another, and I expect this is a leetle the dirtiest place in the Two-Forks Valley."
The man accosted did no more than turn a mild blue eye toward the speaker and resume his whittling. He smiled faintly, with a sort of apology, as the other went on.
"I'll say more'n that, Sim. It's the blamedest, dirtiest hole in the whole state of Montany - yes, or in the whole wide world. Lookit "
He swept a hand around, indicating the interior of the...

Excerpt from The Story of the Outlaw: A Study of the Western Desperado
In offering this study of the American desperado, the author constitutes himself no apologist for the acts of any desperado; yet neither does he feel that apology is needed for the theme itself. The outlaw, the desperado - that somewhat distinct and easily recognizable figure generally known in the West as the "bad man" - is a character unique in our national history, and one whose like scarcely has been produced in any land other than this. It is not necessary to promote absurd and melodramatic impressions regarding a...

Well, here we are, fellows," said Jesse Wilcox, as he threw down an armful of wood at the side of the camp-fire. "For my part, I believe this is going to be about the best trip we ever had." "That's what I was telling Rob to-day," said John Hardy, setting down a pail of water near by. "But I hope I won't have to carry water up a bank a hundred feet high every night." "We are not as far north this time as we were last summer," said Jesse, "but the country looks something the same." "Yes," replied John, "but last year we were going east and farther away from home every day. Now we're going west...

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

Excerpt from Young Alaskans in the Far North
"Well, fellows," said Jesse Wilcox, the youngest of the three boys who stood now at the ragged railway station of Athabasca Landing, where they had just disembarked, "here we are once more. For my part, I'm ready to start right now."
He spoke somewhat pompously for a youth no more than fifteen years of age. John Hardy and Rob McIntyre, his two companions, somewhat older than himself, laughed at him as he sat now on his pack-bag, which had just been tossed off the baggage-car of the train that had brought them hither.
"You might wait for...

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