N. C. Wyeth

As a young widow with a small child, Elinore Pruitt left Denver in 1909 and set out for Wyoming, where she hoped to buy a ranch. Determined to prove that a lone woman could survive the hardships of homesteading, she initially worked as a housekeeper and hired hand for a neighbor, a kind but taciturn Scottish bachelor whom she eventually married. Spring and summers were hard, she concedes, and were taken up with branding, farming, doctoring cattle,...

A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.

The further adventures of David Balfour in which he continues his friendship with Alan Breck Stewart and support of the Scottish highlanders' cause, travels abroad to complete his education, and finds romance.

An idle man falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains only to wake up twenty years later, bewildered as to how life passed him by. Includes an analysis of the story and a biography of the author.

?Are we going up again? ??No. On the contrary; we are going down!? ?Worse than that, Mr. Smith, we are falling!? ?For God?s sake throw over all the ballast!? ?The last sack is empty!? ?And the balloon rises again?? ?No!? ?I hear the splashing waves!? ?The sea is under us!? ?It is not five hundred feet off!? Then a strong, clear voice shouted:??Overboard with all we have, and God help us! ?Such were the words which rang through the air above the vast...

William Wallace encounters secret passageways, disguises, and a quintet of horrible villains as he fights for Scotland at the turn of the fourteenth century.

"Shipwrecked off the coast of Trinidad, Robinson Crusoe - a young man with a thirst for adventure - finds himself washed up on a remote tropical island with nothing but a few tools and animals for company. Castaway for thirty years, he must battle cannibals, mutineers and the elements in a tale so convincing that many readers at the time believed it to be non-fiction. A true page-turner, Robinson Crusoe is one of the most enduring novels in the English...

An adventure story based on fact concerning a mutiny aboard the Bounty and its aftermath. The three individual books are Mutiny on the Bounty, Men against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island. These books were originally published in 1932, 1934, and 1934 respectively.

When a mysterious seafarer puts up at the Admiral Benbow, young Jim Hawkins is haunted by his frightening tales; the sailor's sudden death is the beginning of one of the most exciting adventure stories in literature. The discovery of a treasure map sets Jim and his companions in search of buried gold, and they are soon on board the Hispaniola with a crew of buccaneers recruited by the one-legged sea cook, Long John Silver. As they near their destination,...