Edward Sylvester Ellis: 57 books

The first thing to be considered on going into the forest is the camp where the night is to be spent. In choosing a place for this see that there is fresh water, wood for the fire and brush-wood for building a "lean-to," or hut, at hand. It is well to build on a dry, level place, with just...

Jim McGovern was poring over his lesson one afternoon in the Ashton public school, perplexed by the thought that unless he mastered the problem on which he was engaged he would be kept after the dismissal of the rest, when he was startled by the fall of a twisted piece of paper on his slate. He looked...

The boy who was addressed as Ned was kneeling behind a fallen oak, in a Kentucky forest, carefully sighting at a noble buck that stood in the middle of a natural clearing or opening, with head upraised and antlers thrown back, as though he scented danger, and was searching for the point whence it threatened....

Hans Vanderbum Other Characters Oonomoo and the Shawnees The Young Lieutenant and Cato The Home of the Huron Adventures on the Way The Plan for the Rescue The Exploit of Hans Vanderbum A New Danger Conclusion

DANIEL BOONE was the ideal of the American pioneer—brave, cool, self-reliant, a dead shot with his rifle, a consummate master of woodcraft, with sturdy frame, hopeful at all times, and never discouraged by disasters which caused many a weaker spirit to faint by the way. All that the pen of romance...

Eastward Bound Lost, Strayed or Stolen The Trail Northward The Land of the Assiniboines A Welcome Sight Comrades True A Mishap Enemies and Friends In the Rockies In the Blackfoot Country In Winter Quarters Blackfoot Citizens Summoned to Court A New Blackfoot Citizen The Spirit Circle The Field of Honor...

Learning to Fly Bohunkus Johnson The Aeroplane in a Race Trying for Altitude A Woodland Expert Working for Dinner The Dragon of the Skies The Professor Talks on Aviation The Professor Talks on Aviation (Continued) The Flying Boys Continue Their Journey Fired On Peaceful Overtures Fail Science Wins Milo...

The Night before the Departure The Fate of the Flat-Boat The Two Scouts The Faint Hope The Mysterious Warning The Frontier Angel—The Shawnees The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties A Man in Trouble Peter Jenkins—A Couple of Speeches In which there is a Future Account of the Shawnees, the Speakers,...

Two friends were seated in the private office of Rowland& Starland, Montgomery Street, San Francisco, not long ago, discussing a subject in which both were much interested.

There was good cause for these exclamations upon the part of the Yankee and Irishman, as they stood on the margin of Wolf Ravine, and gazed off over the prairie. Several miles to the north, something like a gigantic man could be seen approaching, apparently at a rapid gait for a few seconds, when it...

At the southern part of Ohio, where the river of that name swerves from its south-western course, and makes a sweeping bend toward the north-west, many years ago stood a large and imposing dwelling. Its character, so different and superior to others found here and there along the Ohio, showed that...

There are many expressions which, though simple in themselves, must forever remain beyond the grasp of human comprehension. Eternity, that which has neither end nor beginning, baffles the most profound human thought. It is impossible to think of a point beyond which there is absolutely nothing, or...

Those of my friends who have done me the honor of reading Campfire and Wigwam, will need little help to recall the situation at the close of that narrative. The German lad Otto Relstaub, having lost his horse, while on the way from Kentucky to the territory of Louisiana (their destination being a part...