Steve Gabany: 240 books

Richard Burton, a ranch owner in Iowa on the Missouri River, is in debt to miser Aaron Wolverton, and makes the semi-annual interest payment on his mortgage. Aaron hates Richard because his wife, Mary Burton, took Richard's proposal above his own. He hates the hero Bob, Richard's son, because Bob...

A Child's Garden of Verses is a collection of poetry for children about darkness and solitude by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The collection first appeared in 1885 under the title Penny Whistles, but has been reprinted many times, often in illustrated versions. It contains about 65...

This is one of the "Old Rough and Ready" series, which highlights the lives of famous individuals, inluding Daniel Webster, Napoleon, and Henry Clay, as well as the man featured here, Andrew Jackson. Jackson was seventh President of the United States, the dominant actor in American politics...

The Old Spanish Trail is celebrated in poem by Brogan. The Trail was established in St. Augustine, Florida, with the arrival of Ponce de Leon in Tampa Bay in 1539, searching for the mythical Fountain of Youth. Shortly thereafter, Franciscans Friars who accompanied the Spaniards founded their first...

This is a very short biography of Patrick Floyd Jarvis "Pat" Garrett, (June 5, 1850 – February 29, 1908). Garrett was an American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent who became renowned for killing Billy the Kid. Garrett also became one of President Theodore Roosevelt's three...

A fascinating book of the frontier period of American history: Indian fights and fighters, the deeds of the trailblazers, the pioneer days of the great cattle drives, cowboys and the adventures of famous (and infamous) exponents of what some refer to as 'triggernomitry.' These larger-than-life...

This book is the telling of the "Chisum [sic] War" by Ike Fridge to author Jodie D. Smith. Fridge worked as a cowpuncher for John Chisum during this "War." The events relayed in the book seem borne out by another book written about this period in history -- "The Lincoln County...

Miss Maria and Master Tommy became ophans upon the death of their parents. Although their father left them wealthy, their evil guardian wanted their money and, so, sent them off to the West Indies on the pretext of visiting one of their relatives, the Governor of Barbadoes. Then, with their mysterious...

In 1886, Washington Irving published Old Christmas, which, in five stories, recorded his nostalgic recollections of Christmas traditions in 19th century England. The book was illustrated in black and white by Randolph Caldecott. One of the stories was called "Christmas Day." In 1910,...

This is a 1903 account of a man from New York City's high society who was accused of murder and spent four years in the notorious Tombs Prison in New York City and on Death Row in Sing Sing Prison in New York. It is a story told simply, clearly; the reader can easily picture her/himself in prison. Molineux's...

When Josephine Hamilton went West to visit Betty, she met Brannon -- a "good-guy/bad-guy" -- and "Satan" Latimer, ruthless, handsome, and fascinating, both of whom taught her a thing or two. Included in this Illustrated Edition of "West!" are all four original...

The Ranchman is a rootin', tootin' western love story. Non-stop action, good guys and bad guys, and no shortage of gun-fighting to keep you guessing until the end whether the hero will actually get the girl. Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–9 February 1942) was an American writer. He...

The Blossoming Rod, a 66-page short story by Mary Stewart Cutting, is all about a certain happy little family and their plot to give the head of the house just exactly the gift he wanted for Christmas -- a thing which is apt to happen more frequently in books than elsewhere. Sub-titled A Christmas...

This is the second edition of the of Thorp's book. It was greatly expanded over the first edition, included over a hundred songs and poems, including 25 pieces written by Thorp and an introduction by Alice Corbin Henderson. Writer, editor, and poet Alice Corbin Henderson was perhaps best known as...