Reading Bear Publications: 82 books

Few cities were founded by a man with the background of Dodge City's own Town President, Robert M. Wright. With a family that included a clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court, and a president of the Continental Congress, Wright came west at age 16 to make his mark on the world. He married his 13-year old...

Buffalo Bill's adult life has been the subject of many biographies and fictional historical novels. But we tend to forget that he was a boy before he became an adult. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood fills that gap. It is one of the masterpieces by Edward Ellis, writing this time...

Fairview Boys Afloat and Ashore is the first book in the Fairview Boys Series. Published in 1912, it is about the Fairview boys' summer-vacation adventures. They get permission to take out the boat of one of the boys' older brothers. Unfortunately, a violent storm comes up. The boat is wrecked on...

When Francis Lynde writes a story with railroad life for a background, you may count on a bit of reading that is well worth your while. When you find added to this background a foreground made up of a youthful official who is personally conducting a party of tourists across our western country, and...

A Christmas Child by Mrs Molesworth is a sketch of boy-life, or rather, though Ted grows to boyhood, of child-life; for it is the child that is the more vividly portrayed. And a very sweet, tenderly drawn sketch it is, with life and reality manifest throughout. Very few can rival Mrs Molesworth in...

California Joe, the Mysterious Plainsman, was born Moses Embree Milner in Stanford, Kentucky, on May 8, 1829. He was a colorful character. Although he owned a fast horse that he raced, mostly he rode an army mule which was superior to the horse over rough country. Heavily bearded, long-haired and...

"Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves the day at the last minute. The author describes him...

The Ohio River Trilogy is a historical-fiction series about Zane Grey's ancestors which includes some of the first books Grey wrote. All three books in the trilogy were published in the first part of the 20th century, although Grey had to self-publish Betty Zane before it was finally recognized by...

Atlantic Series, by Horatio Alger, Jr., consists of four novels: 1. The Young Circus Rider tells the story of Robert Rudd who at nine years old wandering the country alone when he was offered a job as a circus rider. He accepted, and as the book opens, he is 15, and still riding circus horses....

The Young Circus Rider is the first in Alger's Atlantic Series. In the Preface, he notes that having just completed the Pacific series, the Atlantic Series is set nearer his home. Of course, most of the characters in his books lived in New York City. Robert Rudd was only nine and wandering the country...

Fairview Boys at Lighthouse Cove is the fifth book in the Fairview Boys Series. Published in 1914, it tells the story of the boys' summer-vacation adventures at the Lighthouse Cove, a resort on the seashore. While there, the boys take a small motorboat out on the ocean. Everything goes well until...

Fairview Boys and Their Rivals is the third book in the Fairview Boys Series. Published in 1912, it is full of action, adventure, and danger. Barely a page goes by without one of the Boys or someone nearby getting into a life-threatening situation. Ben Bouncer and his friends find themselves back...

The Tale of Tom Kitten is about a naughty kitten, Tom, and his two naughty sisters, Moppet and Mittens. Their mother washes and dresses them for a visit from her friends and then (if you can believe it!) sends them out to play, telling them to "stay clean!" Now, how many kitten, or children...

The Coming of Hopalong Cassidy tells the story of when Bill "Hopalong" Cassidy became a man in the west to be reckoned with. At the beginning of the book, Hopalong is probably younger than 21 years, but is equipped with a man's body. He first travels alone, a youth undeterred by the perils...