"The Steel Horse" is a collection of stories and anecdotes related to the author's vast experiences cycling. A fascinating insight into the state of the sport at a time when it experienced an explosion of popularity, this volume is highly recommended for modern cycling enthusiasts and those with an interest in the history of the sport. Contents include: "In Which I make my Bow," "The Strange Wheelman," "A Care of Mistaken Identity," "Rowr Shelly, the Runaway," "Roy in Trouble," "Another Surprise for Roy," "Some Startling News," "On Board the White Squall," "A Swim in Rought Water," "The Boy...

Extract: CHAPTER I. THE MILITARY ACADEMY. "Well, now, I am disgusted." "So am I. I call it a most unusual proceeding." "That is a very mild term to be applied to it. I call it an outrage. The Professor has deliberately gone to work to disgrace the school and every student in it." "That's my opinion. I shall give my father a full history of the case in the next letter I write to him; and I incline to the belief that he will order me to pack my trunk and start for home." "I know that is what my father will do. Why, fellows, just think of it for a moment What if this street gamin, who has been...

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Originally published in 1876. Frank Nelson in the Forecastle is a historical fiction set on the post-Civil War period until the early twentieth century.

CHAPTER I. AMONG THE TEXANS. "I don't like the way things are going at all, and I just wish those two people were back where they came from. They have turned the ranche upside down since they have been here, and now I begin to feel as though they were the masters, and that I have no more rights than a tramp who had dropped in to beg a night's lodging " The speaker, a sturdy, broad-shouldered youth, about fifteen years of age, was sitting on the porch in front of the house in which he lived, busily engaged in mending a broken bridle with an awl and a piece of waxed-end. His name was George...