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Cover of Aboriginal Remains in Verde Valley, Arizona
by Cosmos Mindeleff
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
Cover of The Rising of the Court, Australian short stories
by Henry Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Henry Lawson (17 June 1867 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and poet . Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period, and is often called Australia's "greatest writer"... His...
Cover of Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims
by Jane Austin
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Historical novel, set in the time of the Pilgrims, first published in 1892.
Cover of Songs Before Sunrise
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 10 April 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. His poetry was highly controversial in its day, much of it containing recurring themes of sadomasochism, death-wish, lesbianism and irreligion."
Cover of The Silent Places
by Stewart Edward White
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 September 18, 1946) was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books."
Cover of The Life of Kit Carson, Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent, and Colonel U.S.A.
by Edward Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Classic adventure novel. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, and journalist, but his most notable work was that that he performed as author...
Cover of The Great Cattle Trail
by Edward Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Edward Sylvester Ellis (April 11, 1840 June 20, 1916) was an American author who was born in Ohio and died at Cliff Island, Maine. Ellis was a teacher, school administrator, and journalist, but his most notable work was that that he performed as author of hundreds of dime novels...
Cover of The Log House by the Lake, a Tale of Canada
by Kingston, W.H.G.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

A well-to-do English family, with inherited wealth, find that this situation is challenged in the law-courts. They lose the case, and, as with Marryat's "Settlers in Canada" in a similar situation, decide to emigrate to Canada. This they do, and have enough money to settle there, but not in a grand...
Cover of Snow Shoes and Canoes, The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory
by Kingston, W.H.G.
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

The basic story-line is that there is a fort in the Hudson Bay Territory that needs some stores and materials to be sent to it from another fort about 150 miles away. The journey could be done by canoe, but there are none available at this time. So a party of people are sent overland to fetch what...
Cover of To Win or Die, A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze
by Fenn, George Manville
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

This is a tough tale about tough men. Right from the first chapter we are living with men who are fighting for survival, the enemy being as often as not other men who would rob them. Chapter after chapter leaves the heroes in some new desperate plight, which, when overcome, is almost at once replaced...
Cover of Patty's Suitors
by Carolyn Wells
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Carolyn Wells (June 18, 1862March 26, 1942) was an American author and poet (born in Rahway, New Jersey, the daughter of William E. and Anna Wells. She died at the Flower-Fifth Avenue Hospital in New York City in 1942. She had been married to Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing empire founded by Bernard Houghton."
Cover of Gaspar the Gaucho
by Captain Mayne Reid
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 October 22, 1883), was an Irish-American novelist. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes...
Cover of The Golden Snare
by James Oliver Curwood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "James Oliver Curwood, (June 12, 1878 August 13, 1927), was an American novelist and conservationist. A great number of his works were turned into movies, several of which starred Nell Shipman as a brave and adventurous woman in the wilds of the north. Many films from Curwood's...
Cover of The Mountain Chant: a Navajo Ceremony (c. 1900)
by Washington Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

According to Wikipedia: "The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of the Americas, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples. They are often also referred to as Native Americans, First Nations, Amerigine, and by Christopher Columbus' geographical...
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