Plainly the rambling log structure was a road house and the stopping place for a mountain stage. It had the watering trough in front, the bundle of iron pails cluttered around the rusted iron pump, and the trampled muddy hollow created by many tired hoofs striking vigorously to drive away the flies. It was in a tiny flat beside the road, and mountains were everywhere; hard-cut, relentless giants, whose stern faces portrayed a perpetual constancy. At the trough two burros, with their packs def...

This file includes: Riders of the Silences by Max Brand; Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey; A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine; The Heritage of the Sioux by B.M. Bower; The Huge Hunter by Edward Ellis; The Virginian by Owen Wister; The Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox, Jr.; A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland; The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough; A Daughter of the Sioux by Charles King; Square Deal Sanderson by Charles Alden Seltzer; and Arizona Nights by Stewa...

A soldier comes home to find his parents displaced and their property stolen in this classic novel of the West from “a great writer” (The New Yorker).Battered and haunted by the Great War, Clifton Forrest sails from France yearning to see Cottonwoods once again—the rambling ranch house in New Mexico surrounded by tall trees and a rocky stream. But when he finally gets there, he learns that his refuge has been stolen and his parents cast out of their home.

A ruthless king of the financial world decides to abandon the corruption of the city for the redemptive labor of the soil. This tale of radical transformation explores the possibility of reclaiming one's soul from the clutches of industrial greed. London contrasts the cold calculations of capitalism with the revitalizing power of the natural world. It is a powerful narrative of grit, hard work, and the search for an authentic existence.

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, "a Stanford graduate and physical Valkyrie" who takes to the trail after upsetting her wealthy father's community by her forthright manner and befriending the town's prostitute. She is also torn between love for two suitors: Gregory St Vincent, a local man who turns out to be cowardly and treacherous; and Vance Corliss, a Yale-trained mining engineer. The novel is noteworthy for its s...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. A solitary hut, dismal, rectangular, stands on the north bank of the White River. Decay has long been at work upon it, yet it is still weather-proof. It was built long before planks were used in the Bad Lands of Dakota. It was built by hands that aimed only at strength and durability, caring nothing for appearances. Thus it has survived where a lighter construction must long since have been demolished.

This collection of short stories presents brilliant characters. Through the experiences of the characters London presents his own ideas. The trouble and hurdle faced by the personas of the different stories are vividly portrayed.

Wyoming is a vigorous romance of the outdoor West, set in a landscape of cattle ranges, frontier towns, and contested moral authority. Raine shapes the novel through swift action, clear dramatic conflicts, and dialogue that evokes the idiom of ranch life without sacrificing narrative polish. Written in the literary moment when the Western was becoming a defining American popular form, the book participates in the tradition of Owen Wister and early Zane Grey: it treats the frontier as both ...

Australian author, pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis, and best known for On Our Selection.Towards the end of 1895 Rudd sent a sketch based on his father's experience 'Starting the selection' to The Bulletin in which appeared on 14 December 1895. This afterwards became the first chapter of On Our Selection when it was published in 1899. Encouraged by J. F. Archibald, Davis continued the series of sketches, 26 of which were included in the volume. Within four years 20,000 copies had been...

Classic western. According to Wikipedia: "Stewart Edward White (12 March 1873 September 18, 1946) was an American author. Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan he earned degrees from University of Michigan (Ph.D., 1895; M.A., 1903). From about 1900 until about 1922, he wrote adventure travel books."