Category: Adventure/Western Fiction

Send to Kindle There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of the nature of Romance, does not exercise the same influence upon the mind or heart. When there are noble purposes and noble ends connected with them, they… Continue reading Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea by James O. Brayman

Send to Kindle I bent my back to the oars and pulled with every muscle strained. The perspiration half blinded me, but one glance upward convinced me that I had sensed the captain’s motive when I saw him rush from the side. He was standing on the poop, taking deliberate aim at me with a… Continue reading The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer

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Send to Kindle If you would test the soul of a friend, take him into the wilderness and rub elbows with him for five months! One of three things will surely happen: You will hate each other afterward with that enlightened hatred which is seasoned with contempt; you will emerge with the contempt tinged with… Continue reading Cabin Fever by B. M. Bewer

Send to Kindle “Boys,” said Tim O’Rooney, with a strange, husky intonation, “you remember my dream about this steamer burning?” “Yes; what of it?” “It is coming thrue!” He spoke the truth! “Oh, heaven! what shall we do?” exclaimed Elwood, struck with a panic. The last words, which we have given as spoken by our… Continue reading Adrift in the Wilds by Edward S. Ellis

Send to Kindle We had gone inland for a mile or more, and were passing through a park-like wood, when we came suddenly upon the first human beings we had seen since we sighted the English coast. There were a score of men in the party. Hairy, half-naked men they were, resting in the shade… Continue reading The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Send to Kindle The Adventures of a Family Lost in the Great Desert of the West Chapter First. Mr. Duncan’s Discontentment. He starts for the West. Chapter Second. The Journey. Encampment. Buffalo hunt. Anne and Edward lost. They discover an old fort. Fight with a Wolf. Take refuge in a Tree. Rescued by Howe and… Continue reading The American Family Robinson by B. W. Belisle

Send to Kindle “The Guns of Shiloh,” a complete story in itself, is the complement of “The Guns of Bull Run.” In “The Guns of Bull Run” the Civil War and its beginnings are seen through the eyes of Harry Kenton, who is on the Southern side. In “The Guns of Shiloh” the mighty struggle… Continue reading The Guns of Shiloh by Joseph A. Altsheler

Send to Kindle  We had thirst and heat and stampedes and some Indian scares… The trail was a long one. But in the strange atmospheric conditions that prevailed that summer, I never saw the desert more wonderful. It was like waking to the glory of God to sit up at dawn and see the colours… Continue reading Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White

Send to Kindle Ride Along for One of Zane Grey’s Exciting Adventures They climbed and crossed that ridge, which could have been called a foothill if there had been any mountains near. Another valley, narrow and rough, not so low as the last, lay between this ridge and the next one, a cedared rise of… Continue reading Valley of Wild Horses by Zane Grey