Download or read book Town and Trail Classic Reprint written by Gertrude Balmer Watt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Town and Trail The present volume is issued as a result of a successful experiment of a year ago. At that time, in response to the representations of numerous readers of the Edmonton Saturday News, to which she had for a considerable period been a staff contributor, the writer published a booklet, entitled "A Woman in the West," containing a number of her sketches of Western Canadian life. It was thought, by those responsible for the undertaking, that a useful public purpose would be served in giving a glimpse of life in this part of the Dominion, as viewed by a woman. Certain it is that widespread interest was evoked. From newspapers, reviews and magazines over two continents came most flattering notices, which served to indicate that the little volume fulfilled its mission. It is because of the reception accorded "A Woman in the West" that "Town and Trail" is now presented to the public. Most of the matter which it contains has already appeared in the columns of The Saturday News and The Alberta Homestead. While the principal object of the publication is, as with the last venture, to give its readers a better appreciation of life in Alberta, in the capital city of which it is issued, a few other sketches are introduced, which have no particular reference to the province. This is merely by way of variety. Typographically, this year's offering is a trifle more ambitious than its predecessor, while in deference to those whose kindly criticism of "A Woman in the West" was that there was not enough of it, more matter has been included. It is launched with the fervent hope that it may help in giving the world at large some idea of the charm of life in Alberta, of the spirit which animates our citizens and of the opportunities which this wonderful province, so dear to the hearts of its sons and daughters, has to offer to the right kind of men and women. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Tales of Trail and Town Classic Reprint written by Bret Harte and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of Trail and Town IT must be admitted that the civilising processes of Rough and Ready were not marked by any of the ameliorating conditions of other improved camps. After the discovery of the famous 'eureka' lead, there was the usual influx of gamblers and saloon-keepers - but that was accepted as a matter Of course. But it was thought hard that, after a church was built, and a new school erected, it should suddenly be found necessary to have doors that locked, instead of standing shamelessly Open to the criticism and temptation of wayfarers, or that portable property could no longer be left out at night in the Old fond reliance on universal brotherhood. The habit Of borrowing was stopped with the introduction Of more money into the camp and the establishment of rates of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Sunset Trail written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sunset Trail Classic Reprint written by Alfred Henry Lewis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Sunset Trail St. Augustine is said to be the first founded town with' in the frontiers of this country, as the same are made and laid to-day. And yet it is in warm dispute, with a deal to tell on the New Mexican side of the question, if Santa Fe be not the age equal of her sister of the Everglades. Certainly, and say the most disappointing thing for Santa Fe, there was a no greater space than two or three years to fall between. Considered as regions, Florida versus New Mexico, the latter should be the older. In its settlement, that stretch lying between Santa Fe and San Francisco, and south to the Rio Grande and the now North Mexican line, was in a fairly populous and ourishing condition three centuries and more ago. To say New Mexico 01' Arizona hath a f ar-o ' savage sound, and yet both were dominated of European in uences and polka-dotted with many a white man's town long years before Salem went hanging her witches or Pocahontas interfered to save the life of Smith. It was over three and one-half centuries ago that Coronado ransacked Colorado and Kansas for those seven cities and the gold he could not find. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book By Path and Trail written by William Richard Harris and published by Chicago, Chicago Newspaper Union. This book was released on 1908 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Men Who Missed the Trail Classic Reprint written by George Clarke Peck and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Men Who Missed the Trail But the Morgue contains notables only. You could not expect a newspaper to be interested in all the clerks and mechanics Of a community. Most Of us may go down town and come back, days without number; may earn a modest living, and mind our own business, and keep the commandments with reasonable care. And unless we - ah, that is just it. We must be or do something unusual. We must climb high or fall low. We must be so handsome or so homely that we attract attention. We must be a good deal better or a good deal worse than our neighbors on the block. We must run for something, or away from it. We must break out Of the class Of the average man, or we shall find no place in the Morgue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Where the Long Trail Begins Classic Reprint written by S. S. Lappin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-22 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Where the Long Trail Begins It is a strange and interesting study, this conglomerate population of ours. Men 01 every race, nation and faith have fled, wan dered and drifted to this great and inviting land, till we may boast of an aggregation the like of which can not be seen elsewhere on earth. And the charm of the New World has possessed them like a spell. Discontented, it may be, in the first location, and the second, and even the third, their faces are still toward the setting sun; they almost never turn back. A generation may live and die in the Old Do minion; the second comes on to Ohio, the third to Illinois, and so, with Westward Ho! For watchword, the flood of folks moves on, each wave reaching farther than the one before. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Followers of the Marked Trail Classic Reprint written by Nannie Lee Frayser and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Followers of the Marked Trail "The Lincoln Highway, which connects New York City with San Francisco," said Jack. "The Dixie Highway, which goes from Chicago to sunny Florida," responded Virginia. "The Mohawk Trail, which takes you through the most beautiful sections of New England," called out Helen. "The Adirondack Trail, that gives you a trip through the wonderful mountains," said Henry. Father was referee and the children were playing a favorite twilight game. Jack and Virginia were trying to down Helen and Henry, and they made it lively for father. The object was to name the largest number of important highways - the Marked Trails over which thousands of automobiles spin along on their errands of business or pleasure, and to give an idea of the sections of country through which they are built. Excitement grew as the game progressed, and a score of answers were given correctly, but after Virginia and Jack had challenged with "Yellowstone Trail" and "Great White Way," Helen and Henry had to give up, and Virginia's side was declared victor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book By Path and Trail Classic Reprint written by William Richard Harris and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from By Path and Trail The romance and weird fascination which belong to immense solitudes and untenanted wilds are fading away and, in a few years, will be as if they were not. The in tangible and the immaterial leave no memories after them. The march of civilization is a benediction for the future, but it is also a devastation before which savage nature and savage man must go down. Unable or unwilling to adapt himself to new conditions and to the demands of a life foreign to his nature and his experience original man of North America is doomed, like the wild beast he hunted, to extinction. For centuries he stubbornly contested the white man's right to invade and seize upon his hunting grounds; he was no coward and when compelled, at last, to strike a truce with his enemy, he felt that Fate was against him, yielded to the inevitable and - all was over. In the Bacatete mountains, amid the terrifying solitudes of the Sierras of Northern Mexico, the Yaquis - last of the fighting tribes - is disappearing in a lake of blood and when he is submerged the last dread war-whoop will shriek his requiem. It will never again be heard upon the earth. The lonely regions of our great continent, over which there brooded for unnumbered ages the silence which was before creation, are disappearing with the vanishing Indian; a new vegetable and a new animal life are sup planting the old now on the road to obliteration. The ruin is pathetic, but inevitable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Blazed Trail Classic Reprint written by Stewart Edward White and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Blazed Trail So Radway got the descriptions and a little map divided into townships, sections, and quarter sec tions; and went out to look at it. He searched until he found a blaze on a tree, the marking on which indicated it as the corner of a section. F rom this cor ner the boundary lines were blazed at right angles in either direction. Radway followed the blazed lines. Thus he was able accurately to locate isolated for ties (forty acres), eighties, quarter sections, and sections in a primeval wilderness. The feat, however, required considerable woodcraft, an exact sense of di rection, and a pocket compass. These resources were still further drawn upon for the next task. Radway tramped the woods, hills, and valleys to determine the most practical route over which to build a logging road from the standing tim ber to the shores of Cass Branch. He found it to be an affair of some puzzlement. The pines stood on a country rolling with hills, deep with pot-holes. It be came necessary to dodge in and out, here and there, between the knolls, around or through the swamps, still keeping, however, the same general direction, and preserving always the requisite level or down grade. Radway had no vantage point from which to survey. The country. A city man would promptly have lost himself in the tangle; but the woodsman emerged at last on the banks of the stream, leaving behind him a meandering trail of clipped trees that wound, twisted, doubled, and turned, but kept ever to a coun try without steep hills. From the main road he pur posed arteries to tap the most distant parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Trail a Boy Travels written by Hervey Smith McCowan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Trail a Boy Travels: And Other Stories I had not seen him for many years, until one morning as the train sped across the plains Of Colorado, I met him in the aisle of a Pullman. He had changed little. He had grown stouter, perhaps, and gray hair showed at the temples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Old Crow Wing Trail Classic Reprint written by John Schultz and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Crow Wing Trail Another reason may be found in the fact that over it I made my first prairie journey, that from one of its encamp ments 1 saw the last herd of buffalo ever seen east of the Red River, and that though I am about to describe it as seen by me in a peaceful journey late in the fall of 1860, I was to traverse it again when comparatively disused during the year of the Sioux massacre in Minnesota, as the only hope of reaching Fort Garry from St. Paul, where I then was, when a camp fire was out of the question, each river-ford and bluffof timber to be avoided, and a stealthy Indian tread to he fancied in the rustle of every leaf. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Desert Trail Classic Reprint written by Dane Coolidge and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Desert Trail The slow-rolling winter's sun rose coldly, far to the south, riding up from behind the saw-toothed Sierras of Mexico to throw a silvery halo on Gadsden, the border city. A hundred miles of desert lay in its path - a waste of broken ridges, dry arroyos, and sandy plains - and then suddenly, as if by magic, the city rose gleaming in the sun. It was a big city, for the West, and swarming with traffic and men. Its broad main street, lined with brick buildings and throbbing with automobiles, ran from the railroad straight to the south until, at a line, it stopped short and was lost in the desert. That line which marked the sudden end of growth and progress was the border of the United States; the desert was Mexico. And the difference was not in the land, but in the government. As the morning air grew warm and the hoar frost dripped down from the roofs the idlers of the town crept forth, leaving chill lodgings and stale saloons for the street corners and the sun. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Bonanza written by William MacLeod Raine and published by S.B. Gundy. This book was released on 1926 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Over Mohawk Trail Classic Reprint written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Over Mohawk Trail Brings to one a thrill of delightful anticipation. A picture comes to us of the red man noiselessly passing through the beauties of secluded nature. The early history of Northfield abounds with stories, traditional and authentic, of the Indians who dwelt in several bands in this part of the valley of the Connecticut. Lying along this fertile valley, protected east and west by the Franklin Hills, the Indians found all things necessary for their primitive life. These same hills later became their watchtowers where they observed the movements of the settlers and planned their disastrous attacks. Northfield owes a large part of its prosperity to the fact that it is the birthplace of and the home of Dwight L.Moody, the world-famous evangelist. Here he built up Northfield Seminary for girls, a preparatory school of high rank. Much of East Xorthfield is a memorial to his life and work. He established the Northfield Summer Conferences, which are attended by thousands of people each year from all parts of the world, who seek here religious instruction and inspiration. We start our trip at East Northfield 44 Miles from the Trail Summit Northfield was called Squakheag by the Indians, as this was the name of the tribe which lived in this region. They were a branch of the Pacomptock Indians of the Deerfield Valley and warred with the Mohawks bevond the Hoosac Mountains. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Lone Trail Classic Reprint written by Luke Allan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lone Trail He was small of stature, but imagination and a capacity for thrills are not corporally circumscribed. When he arrived, Dunmore Junction was no longer lonely. Within two miles of the station platform was more life than Medicine Hat had seen Since the buffalo drifted drearily to other hunting-grounds before the civilisa tion of the rancher and the barbarism of gory hunters. Out there in the rolling folds of the prairie two thousand head were looking for the last time on their limitless pastures, kept under control by a Cloud of cowboys, in herds as distinct as possible according to ownership. Scarcely a steer was visible, but at intervals a wildly riding cowboy dashed from a coulee in pursuit of protest against the extended restraint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Long Trail Classic Reprint written by Kermit Roosevelt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Long Trail My father had done much hunting with many and varied friends. I have often heard him say of some one whom I had thought an ideal hunting companion: He's a good fellow, but he was always fishing about in the pot for the best piece of meat, and if there was but one partridge shot, he would try to roast it for himself. If there was any delicacy he wanted more than his share. Things assume such dif ferent proportions in the wilds; after two months living on palm-tree t0ps and mon keys, a ten-cent can of condensed milk bought for three dollars from a rubber ex plorer far exceeds in value the greatest delicacy of the season to the ordinary citi zen who has a varied and sufficient menu at his command every day in the year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
