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Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach · 1905 · 128p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Pardners is a Fiction Short Story Book. "Most all the old quotations need fixing", said Joyce in tones forbidding dispute. "For instance, the guy that alluded to marriages germinating in heaven certainly got off on the wrong foot. He meant pardnerships. The same works ain't got capacity for both, no more'n you can build a split second stop watch in a stone quarry. No, sir! A true pardnership is… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs

Other Main Traveled Roads Hamlin Garland · 1910 · 349p · ≈ 11h · Challenging This book-collection file includes: Cavanagh's Forest Ranger, A Daughter of the Middle Border, The Eagle's Heart, The Forester's Daughter, A Little Norsk, Main-Travelled Roads, The Moccasin Ranch, Other Main-Traveled Roads, Prairie Folks, The Spirit of Sweetwater, A Spoil of Office, The Tyranny of the Dark, and Wayside Courtships.According to Wikipedia: "Hannibal Hamlin Garland (September 14,… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs

Red men and white Owen Wister · 1895 · ★ 3.7 · 280p · ≈ 9h · Challenging It consists of eight western stories. Something new was happening among the Crow Indians. A young pretender had appeared in the tribe. What this might lead to was unknown alike to white man and to red; but the old Crow chiefs discussed it in their councils, and the soldiers at Fort Custer, and the civilians at the agency twelve miles up the river, and all the white settlers in the valley… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs

The Crusade of the Excelsior Bret Harte · 1887 · 250p · ≈ 8h · Challenging The speaker, though apparently more at his ease at sea, was in dress and appearance fully as unnautical as Banks. As he leaned over the railing, his white, close-fitting trousers and small patent-leather boots gave him a jaunty, half-military air, which continued up to the second button of his black frock-coat, and then so utterly changed its character that it was doubtful if a greater contrast… Shares: American Short stories, Westerns, Social life and customs

A Sappho of Green Springs Bret Harte · 1890 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Challenging The door of the editorial room of the "Excelsior Magazine" began to creak painfully under the hesitating pressure of an uncertain and unfamiliar hand. This continued until with a start of irritation the editor faced directly about, throwing his leg over the arm of his chair with a certain youthful dexterity. With one hand gripping its back, the other still grasping a proof-slip, and his pencil in… Shares: American Short stories, Westerns

Colonel Starbottle's client, and some other people Bret Harte · 1892 · ★ 3.0 · 285p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Everyone's favorite bloviating attorney makes a triumphant return to the law profession in the title story of this charming collection from Bret Harte. Colonel Starbottle takes on a client named Jo Corbin, who has committed a grievous crime and works out a convoluted plan of repentance. Shares: American Short stories, Westerns

How the West Was Won Louis L'Amour · 1963 · ★ 4.1 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate They came by river and by wagon train, braving the endless distances of the Great Plains and the icy passes of the Sierra Nevada. They were men like Linus Rawlings, a restless survivor of Indian country who'd headed east to see the ocean but left his heart--and his home--in the West. They were women like Lilith Prescott, a smart, spirited beauty who fled her family and fell for a gambling man in… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

The writings of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1874 · 20p · ≈ 40m · Challenging Francis Bret Harte was born on August 25, 1836 in Albany New York. As a young boy Harte developed an early love of books and reading. He first published at the tender age of 11; a satirical poem titled "Autumn Musings." Expecting praise he encountered anything but and was later to write "Such a shock was their ridicule to me that I wonder that I ever wrote another line of verse." By age 13 his… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White · 1904 · ★ 3.4 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Stewart Edward White’s 1904 collection of thirteen short stories entertain readers with wild and wooly tales of the American frontier, including narratives about prospecting and logging. Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns

Law of the Desert Born Louis L'Amour · 1983 · ★ 4.0 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This first-rate collection of short stories by the incomparable Louis L’Amour showcases the legendary writer at his very spinning a fascinating and wholly authentic set of unforgettable tales. In these extraordinary stories, we meet a man who is forced to defend himself by taking another’s life—and must pay for his actions in a most punishing manner; a young thrill-seeker who finally finds a… Shares: American Short stories, Westerns

The outlaws of Mesquite Louis L'Amour · 1990 · ★ 4.4 · 210p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Meet the frontier bad men—like Leo Carver—a man so hated that everyone in the town of Canyon Gap planned to turn up for his hanging. Then meet those who dared to challenge them—like Marshal Lou Morgan, who tried to save his citizens from a goldmine swindler, only to learn that his own code of honesty made him the biggest sucker in town. There's champion rodeo rider Marty Mahan, called a coward… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs

Condensed novels Bret Harte · 1867 · ★ 3.6 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Challenging The Dodds were dead. For twenty year they had slept under the green graves of Kittery churchyard. The townfolk still spoke of them kindly. The keeper of the alehouse, where David had smoked his pipe, regretted him regularly, and Mistress Kitty, Mrs. Dodd's maid, whose trim figure always looked well in her mistress's gowns, was inconsolable.  On the death of his parents, Faraday Little was… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

On the Frontier Bret Harte · 1884 · 132p · ≈ 4h · Challenging It was noon of the 10th of August, 1838. The monotonous coast line between Monterey and San Diego had set its hard outlines against the steady glare of the Californian sky and the metallic glitter of the Pacific Ocean. The weary succession of rounded, dome-like hills obliterated all sense of distance; the rare whaling vessel or still rarer trader, drifting past, saw no change in these rusty… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Selected Stories of Bret Harte Bret Harte · 1946 · 306p · ≈ 10h · Challenging The life of Bret Harte divides itself, without adventitious forcing, into four quite distinct parts. First, we have the precocious boyhood, with its eager response to the intellectual stimulation of cultured parents; young Bret Harte assimilated Greek with amazing facility; devoured voraciously the works of Shakespeare, Dickens, Irving, Froissart, Cervantes, Fielding; and, with creditable… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

The story of California Stewart Edward White · 1927 · 437p · ≈ 14h · Challenging 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… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

Tales of Aztlan George Hartmann · 1908 · 116p · ≈ 3h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Frontier and pioneer life, Westerns, Social life and customs

Wayside Courtships Hamlin Garland · 1897 · ★ 4.0 · 281p · ≈ 9h · Challenging The train drew out of the great Van Buren Street depot at 4. 30 of a dark day in late October. A tall young man, with a timid look in his eyes, was almost the last one to get on, and his pale face wore a worried look as he dropped into an empty seat and peered out at the squalid buildings reeling past in the mist. The buildings grew smaller, and vacant lots appeared stretching away in flat… Shares: American Short stories, Westerns, Social life and customs

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Just where the red track of the Los Gatos road streams on and upward like the sinuous trail of a fiery rocket until it is extinguished in the blue shadows of the Coast Range, there is an embayed terrace near the summit, hedged by dwarf firs. At every bend of the heat-laden road the eye rested upon it wistfully; all along the flank of the mountain, which seemed to pant and quiver in the oven-like… Shares: Westerns, Social life and customs

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