Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Davis and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-28 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranson's Folly tells the story of the audacious, dare-devil exploits of a junior officer in the U.S. Army. His position and influence secure a lieutenancy in a Western post. The monotony of the life there and its regularity finally drive him into the folly of donning the disguise of a band of notorious highwaymen, and holding up the public coach.
Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Harding Davis and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2008-08-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranson's Folly is the title story in a collection of novellas. The author was an American journalist whose vivid wartime accounts made him one of the leading reporters of his day.
Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Harding Davis and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranson's Folly is a fictional romance and adventure novel by the war correspondent and novelist Richard Harding Davies. It revolves around the settlers at Fort Crockett. One of whom is Mr. Cahill, the post's trader, a dark, sinister man, alive only to money-making and who was known to handle a revolver with the alertness of a town-marshal. His daughter Mary joins him at the Fort. Since the day she left the convent Mary Cahill had held but two affections: one for her dear father, who brooded over her as jealously as a lover, and the other for the entire United States Army. But when Lieutenant Ranson arrives from the Philippines, the affections of Mary Cahill are less generously distributed, and her heart turns toward the new arrival. Ranson is however falsely accused of a crime and is at risk of a court martial...
Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Davis, 1st and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Odin's Library Classics is dedicated to bringing the world the best of humankind's literature from throughout the ages. Carefully selected, each work is unabridged from classic works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama.
Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the darkness, he had been picked off for someone else. The next night, as he passed in the full light of the post-trader's windows, a shot came from among the dark shadows of the corral, and when he immediately sought safety in numbers among the Indians, cowboys, and troopers in the exchange, he was in time to see Cahill enter it from the other store, wrapping up a bottle of pain-killer for Mrs. Stickney's cook.
Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Harding Davis and published by Peter Smith Publisher. This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ranson s Folly Annotated written by Richard Richard Barthelmess and published by . This book was released on 2020-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranson's Folly is a surviving 1926 silent film produced by and starring Richard Barthelmess and costarring Dorothy Mackaill. It is based on a Richard Harding Davis novel and 1904 play, Ranson's Folly, and was filmed previously in 1910 and in 1915 by Edison.
Download or read book Ranson s Folly and Others written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This early work by Richard Harding Davis was originally published in 1902 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Ranson's Folly' is a collection of short stories that include 'The Bar Sinister', 'In the Fog', and several others. Davis attended Lehigh University and Johns Hopkins University, but was asked to leave both due to neglecting his studies in favour socialising. During the Second Boer War in South Africa, Davis was a leading correspondent of the conflict. He saw the war first-hand from both parties perspectives and documented it in his publication 'With Both Armies' (1900). He wrote widely from locations such as the Caribbean, Central America, and even from the perspective of the Japanese forces during the Russo-Japanese War. Davis died following a heart attack on 11th April, 1916, at the age of 51.
Download or read book Ranson s Folly written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-28 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranson's Folly is about the audacious, dare-devil exploits of a junior officer in the U.S. Army, whose position and influence secure a lieutenancy in a Western post. The monotony of the life and its regularity finally drive him into the folly of donning the disguise of a band of notorious highwaymen, and holding up the public coach. The results of this escapade are almost tragic for the reckless young excitement seeker.Richard Harding Davis was a popular writer of fiction and drama, and a journalist famous for his coverage of the Spanish-American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War. Davis made his reputation as a newspaper reporter in May to June 1889, by reporting on the devastation of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, following the infamous flood and added to his reputation by reporting on events such as the first electrocution of a criminal.
Download or read book Ransom s folly and other stories written by Richard Harding Davis and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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