Daniel Pierce Thompson: 8 books

2 works of Daniel Pierce Thompson American novelist and lawyer (1795-1868) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Daniel Pierce Thompson. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Gaut Gurley - The Rangers

The Rangers Daniel Pierce Thompson, an American novelist and lawyer (1795-1868) This ebook presents «The Rangers», from Daniel Pierce Thompson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- VOLUME I. THE RANGERS -03- VOLUME II. THE RANGERS -04- CONCLUSION

Gaut Gurley Daniel Pierce Thompson, an American novelist and lawyer (1795-1868) This ebook presents «Gaut Gurley», from Daniel Pierce Thompson. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents -01- About this book -02- GAUT GURLEY

Our story, contrary perhaps to fashionable precedent, opens at a common farm-house, situated on one of the principal roads leading through the interior of the northerly portion of the Union. It was near the middle of the day, in that part of the spring season when the rough and chill features of winter...

Those who have wandered along the banks of the Otter Creek, in search of the beautiful and picturesque, may have extended their rambles, perhaps, to lake Dunmore, which lies embosomed among the hills a few miles to the eastward of that quiet stream. If so, their taste for natural scenery has doubtless...

The summer’s sun was throwing his parting beams over the circular range of high, detached hills that enclosed a small village situated near the mouth of one of the Green Mountain tributaries of the Connecticut river. Long, wavy lines of thin, blue smoke becoming visible in the absence of the sun,...

God made the country and man made the town. So wrote the charming Cowper, giving us to understand, by the drift of the context, that he intended the remark as having a moral as well as a physical application; since, as he there intimates, in "gain-devoted cities," whither naturally flow...

I was once, upon a warm summer afternoon, journeying on horseback in that wild and picturesque tract of country, in New Hampshire, which borders on the upper portion of the mountainborn Merrimac, when a dark thunder cloud, that had been gathering, unperceived by me, in the distance, rose up suddenly...