Steve Gabany: 240 books
The Young Outlaw (Illustrated)
or, Adrift in the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This is the sixth volume of the Tattered Tom Series, and the twelfth of the stories which are wholly or mainly devoted to street-life in New York. Alger wrote this book specifically to show what happens when young boys don't have the moral compass generated by "enterprise, industry and integrity."
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The Apple Dumpling (Illustrated Edition)
and Other Stories for Young Boys and Girls
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
This is a collection of 11 short tales for children from the mid-19th century. The name of the compiler has been lost in time. The book contains one story that may be familiar to children -- The Three Bears -- except it is an earlier version than the more recent one that features Goldilocks. The tales...
Digging for Gold (Illustrated)
A Story of California
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2016
Published in 1892 by the John C. Winston Co., "Digging for Gold" tells this story: overworked and underpaid by his miserly stepfather, sixteen-year-old Grant Colburn, a resourceful Iowa farm boy, travels 2,000 miles to seek his fortune in the gold mines of California.
Horatio Alger,...
A Debt of Honor (Illustrated)
The Story of Gerald Lane's Success in the Far West
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2015
In this 1900 Horatio Alger, Jr. novel, published by A. L. Burt, of New York, Gerald Lane heads west to seek his fortune and claim the money owed his father by an unscrupulous former business partner. As might be expected, this is not as simple or straightforward as it might at first seem.
Horatio...
The Young Adventurer (Illustrated)
Tom's Trip Across The Plains
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
"The Young Adventurer" is the initial volume of the Pacific Series, four stories relating to the Pacific coast and the intervening country. This novel presents the story of Tom Nelson, who aspires to help his father meet a $2,000 mortgage by making his fortune in the California gold fields.
Tom...
by Zona Gale
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
This book contains 11 short stories of neighborhood life in villages loosely related to Mid-America, by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. They offer as good a picture of the Middle West and have a real value as social suggestion beside their value as stories. The span the...
by Judson R. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This is a story of detective work among the Moonshiners in the mountain wilds of Southern Georgia. You should read it from the perspective of when it was published -- the late 19th century. Writing styles from that period are much different than today, and you should enjoy it as much for its style...
The Texan Triumph (Illustrated Edition)
A Romance of the San Jacinto Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
"The Texan Triumph" is the final volume of Joseph Altsheler's 3-volume "Texan Series". Each volume is a complete story in itself, and is based on the Texan struggle for liberty against the power of Mexico. This revolution, epic in its nature, and crowded with heroism and great...
The Watchers of the Plains
A Tale of the Western Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
A story of the Dakotas in the 1870s, depicting one of the Indian uprisings that were so frequent and so terrible in those days. It is strong in plot, vivid in action, and of great interest. Seth is a character no one can fail to admire.
Included in this edition of the 1909 version of "The...
by Edgar Beecher Bronson
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
This is a fictional account of the winning of the West, based on the notes of frontiersman Clark B. Stocking (1839-1934). Bronson had met Stocking while the fearless scout, soldier, and lawman was riding shotgun on the Deadwood Stage.
Edgar Beecher Bronson (1856–1917) was a Nebraska rancher,...
The Little Pussy-Cats (Illustrated)
What They Did, and What They Tried To Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
This delightful little book contains six, "one-page" rhymes about cats and kittens. One story line is about how "Signor Caterwaul," a world-famous singer, tries to get Miss Mewler to marry him. A second story is about what happens when naughty kittens don't listen to their mother.
In...
Jack, the Young Trapper (Illustrated)
An Eastern Boy's Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2018
"They were men of firm courage and stern resolution, those trappers of the early days," and Jack Danvers who spends a summer in the Colorado park region, is taught some of the secrets of that now forgotten life by one who had borne a part in the work of subduing the wild West. He learns...
by Charles Alden Seltzer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Along with Zane Grey and William MacLeod Raine, Charles Alden Seltzer is remembered today as an originator of what’s often called the formula western. In it, a cowboy hero of sterling qualities, who is fast with a gun, meets and subdues a vicious villain. While this part of the story plays out,...
by Harry Castlemon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
This is the third book in Castlemon's "Rocky Mountain Series," the first being Frank among the Rancheros (Kindle: https://goo.gl/gVxA2d, Nook: http://goo.gl/eGPoVw, Kobo: https://goo.gl/UzaTbv), and the second, Frank at Don Carlos' Ranch (Kindle: https://goo.gl/Il6Kfd, Nook: http://goo.gl/Ey06tW,...