The story of California

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Contents The Sign at Six (1912) The Gray Dawn (1915) The Mountains (1904) Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life (1899) The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1908) The Westerners (1901) The Call of the North The Rules of the Game (1910) The Claim Jumpers: A Romance (1901) The Riverman (1908) The Land of Footprints (1913) The Forty-Niners (1918) The Leopard Woman (1916) Conjuror's House (1903) The Forest (1904) Gold (1913) The Blazed Trail (1902) The Killer (1919) The Silent Places (1903) Arizona Nights (1907) African Camp Fires (1914) The Mystery (1907) Camp and Trail (1906) The Sign at Six (1912) The story of a man who thought he owned New York and of another man who undertook to convince him of his error. In the conflict between them New York becomes a city of unbounded surprises and of thrilling dread. The Gray Dawn (1915) This book tells of the period shortly after the first mad rush for gold in California. A young lawyer and his wife, initiated into the gay life of San Francisco, find their ways parted through his downward course, but succeeding events bring the “gray dawn of better things” for both of them. The Adventures of Bobby Orde (1908) The story of the Riverman's son Bobby--a more engaging little chap could hardly be found. The Rules of the Game (1910) The romance of the son of "The Riverman." The young college hero goes into the lumber camp, is antagonized by "graft" and comes into the romance of his life. This is a story of the Californian Sierras and the great duel between the financial trusts and the Government for the preservation of the forests. Like all Mr. White's books it is full of swift incident and the magic of the wilds. The Claim Jumpers: A Romance (1901) The tenderfoot manager of a mine in a lonesome gulch of the Black Hills has a hard time of it, but "wins out" in more ways than one. The Riverman (1908) The story of a man's fight against a river and of a struggle between honesty and grit on the one side, and dishonesty and shrewdness