Emerson Hough: 96 books

A woman, tall, somewhat angular, dark of hair and eye, strong of features—a woman now approaching middle age—sat looking out over the long, tree-clad slopes that ran down from the gallery front of the mansion house to the gate at the distant roadway. She had sat thus for some moments, many moments,...

Once, several years ago, there lived in a city far from the sea-shore a widow by the name of Mrs. Pickle, who had Twins named Zuzu Pickle and Lulu Pickle. At first glance, these Twins seemed much like ordinary twins in appearance. Both had blue eyes, pretty curved lips, and rosy cheeks; and as they...

Set in a small town in Ohio, the novel The Broken Gate centers on a devoted single mother who has struggled and sacrificed to raise her son on her own. When the truth about her past is suddenly revealed, it throws the entire town into chaos, and she finds her personal life at the center of a political controversy.

The Story of the Outlaw is a classic study of desperadoes and outlaws in the American West, first published in 1905.

The old woman who spoke—a wrinkled dame she was, bowed down by years and infirmity, her face creased by a thousand grimed-in, wrinkled lines—moved with an odd sprightliness as she stepped across the floor. She placed a hand upon the shoulder of the young man whom she accosted, standing between him...

It was a wild and beautiful scene which lay about the little camp in the far-off mountains of the Northwest. The sun had sunk beyond the loftier ridges, although even now in the valley there remained considerable light. One could have seen many miles over the surrounding country had not, close at hand,...

“I ask you to look at this splendid tool, the American ax, not more an implement of labor than an instrument of civilization. If you can not use it, you are not American. If you do not understand it, you can not understand America. This tool is so simple and so perfect that it has scarcely seen change...

Ah, but it was a sweet and wonderful thing to see Miss Lady dance, a strange and wondrous thing! She was so sweet, so strong, so full of grace, so like a bird in all her motions! Now here, now there, and back again, her feet scarce touching the floor, her loose skirt, held out between her dainty fingers,...

THE START FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN Well, fellows, said Jesse Wilcox, the youngest of the three boys who stood now at the ragged railway station of Athabasca Landing, where they had just disembarked, here we are once more. For my part, I'm ready to start right now.

In this thrilling action-adventure novel for younger audiences, lifelong chums Rob McIntyre, John Hardy and Jesse Wilcox set off on a grueling, life-changing trek in the wilds of the Rocky Mountains with their friend Uncle Dick, a civil engineer and skilled outdoorsman.

A stirring romance written around the Lewis and Clark Expedition, telling of the tragic career of Meriwether Lewis, and of his love for Theodosia, daughter of Aaron Burr.

Lifelong chums Jesse Wilcox, John Hardy and Rob McIntyre have spent most of their lives in Alaska and are used to the harsh conditions there. But when the opportunity arises for them to take part in an expedition to the Arctic Circle, the friends have to face an entirely new set of hardships and challenges.