Frank Reade, Jr., with his new steam horse in the great American desert / or, The sandy trail of death

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FRANK READE, JR., IN THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT.
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By “NONAME,”
Author of “Frank Reade, Jr., With His New Steam Horse Among the Cowboys; or, The League of the Plains,” etc.
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When it became noised about that Frank Reade, Jr., the distinguished inventor, was about to make a trip to the far West with his wonderful Steam Horse, public interest became greatly excited.
For those of my readers who may never have read any of the accounts of his wonderful adventures, I will state that Frank Reade, Jr., was a wonderful inventor of marvelous things; that his father was a famous inventor before him, and that Frank, Jr., took to the trade as naturally as a duck does to water.
Years ago, Frank Reade, Sr., had founded the town of Readestown, U. S. A.
And there had erected large machine shops, to which the younger Reade greatly added in later days.
The new Steam Man, invented by Frank Reade, Jr., had made a great furore.