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Buffalo Bill's Spy Trailer; Or, The Stranger in Camp by Prentiss Ingraham

A horseman drew rein one morning, upon the brink of the Grand Cañon of the Colorado, a mighty abyss, too vast for the eye to take in its ...

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Jolly Sally Pendleton; Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife by Laura Jean Libbey

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Jan 19, 20245 min read

Jolly Sally Pendleton; Or, the Wife Who Was Not a Wife by Laura Jean Libbey

BOTH GIRLS WERE SO STUNNINGLY PRETTY, AND WORE SUCH ODD, BEWITCHING COSTUMES ON THEIR TANDEM, THAT THE PEOPLE WHO STOPPED TO WATCH THE ...

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The Bradys Beyond Their Depth; Or, The Great Swamp Mystery by Francis W. Doughty

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Jan 19, 20247 min read

The Bradys Beyond Their Depth; Or, The Great Swamp Mystery by Francis W. Doughty

"Help! Police! Murder!" It was a dark, rainy night in March when this thrilling cry, in a man's voice, came from a house in West ...

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Jan 19, 202414 min read

Children's

The Mystery of a Turkish Bath by Rita

“I take them for rheumatic gout,” said a slight, dark-haired woman to her neighbor, as she leaned back in a low lounging chair, and ...

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Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" by An Old Scout

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Jan 19, 202410 min read

Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" by An Old Scout

It was just about five o'clock in the afternoon of a cool day in autumn when Young Wild West and his friends rode into a little mining ...

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Kayla Draney

Jan 19, 20246 min read

The Bradys and the Girl Smuggler; Or, Working for the Custom House by Francis W. Doughty

The Collector of the Port of New York sat in his office in the Custom House with a look of annoyance on his face. Several of his chief ...

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Jan 19, 202427 min read

The Northern Light by E. Werner

The grey mist of an autumn morning lay upon forest and field. Through its shadowy vapors, a swarm of birds was sweeping by, on their ...

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Kayla Draney

Jan 17, 202411 min read

The Wharf by the Docks: A Novel by Florence Warden

Everybody knows Canterbury, with its Old-World charms and its ostentatious air of being content to be rather behind the times, of ...

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Jan 17, 20249 min read

Adventure

Miss Caprice by St. George Rathborne

A little party of tourists might be seen one lovely day in January, on the hill back of the city of Valetta, on that gem of ...

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Kayla Draney

Jan 16, 202419 min read

Fiction

Family Pride; Or, Purified by Suffering by Mary Jane Holmes

Uncle Ephraim Barlow, deacon of the Orthodox church in Silverton, Massachusetts, was an old-fashioned man, clinging to the old-time ...

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Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood by Prentiss Ingraham

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Jan 16, 20242 min read

Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood by Prentiss Ingraham

That Truth is, by far, stranger than Fiction, the lessons of our daily lives teach us who dwell in the marts of civilization, and ...

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Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills by Edward L. Wheeler

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Jan 16, 202410 min read

Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills by Edward L. Wheeler

On the plains, midway between Cheyenne and the Black Hills, a train had halted for a noonday feed. Not a railway train, mind you, but a ...

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With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown by Nicholas Carter

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Jan 16, 20248 min read

With Links of Steel; Or, The Peril of the Unknown by Nicholas Carter

"Mr. Venner, sir?" "Mr. Venner—yes, certainly. You will find him in his private office—that way, sir. The door to the right. Venner is ...

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Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey

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Jan 16, 20247 min read

Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey

It was five o'clock on a raw, gusty February afternoon. All that day and all the night before it had been snowing hard. New York lay ...

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For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Lurana Sheldon

Kayla Draney

Jan 16, 20245 min read