BOOKS BY JOSEPH A. ALTSHELER
The Young Trailers Series: Frontier Life in the Revolution. Two boys, Henry Ware and Paul Cotter, and three scouts are the chief characters:
| The Young Trailers |
| The Forest Runners |
| The Free Rangers |
| The Eyes of the Woods |
| The Keepers of the Trail |
| The Riflemen of the Ohio |
| The Scouts of the Valley |
| The Border Watch |
The French and Indian War Series. The period is from 1754 to 1763 and the central characters are Robert Lennox, an American boy; Tayoga, an Onondaga Indian; and David Willet, a hunter:
| The Hunters of the Hills |
| The Shadow of the North |
| The Rulers of the Lakes |
| The Masters of the Peaks |
| The Lords of the Wild |
| The Sun of Quebec |
The Texan Series. Three stories of the Texas struggle for independence, with an American boy, Ned Fulton, in the foreground:
| The Texan Star |
| The Texan Scouts |
| The Texan Triumph |
The Civil War Series. The principal battles of the Civil War are covered. In four of the stories Dick Mason, who fights for the North, is the leading character; in the other four his cousin, Harry Kenton, fighting on the Southern side, is featured:
| The Guns of Bull Run |
| The Guns of Shiloh |
| The Scouts of Stonewall |
| The Sword of Antietam |
| The Star of Gettysburg |
| The Rock of Chickamauga |
| The Shades of the Wilderness |
| The Tree of Appomattox |
Indian Wars of the West and Southwest. Not a series:
| Apache Gold |
| The Last of the Chiefs (Custer’s defeat) |
| The Quest of the Four (Mexican War) |
The Great West Series:
| The Great Sioux Trail |
| The Lost Hunters |
The World War Series. John Scott, a young American in Germany when the war opens, and Phillip Lannes, a young French friend, are the central figures:
| The Guns of Europe |
| The Hosts of the Air |
| The Forest of Swords |
Historical Romances. More definitely for older readers. Not in series:
| A Soldier of Manhattan (French and Indian War) |
| The Sun of Saratoga (Burgoyne’s surrender) |
| The Wilderness Road (Pioneers west of the Alleghenies) |
| My Captive (Revolutionary romance) |
| A Herald of the West (War of 1812) |
| In Circling Camps (Civil War) |
| The Last Rebel |
| The Candidate (the romance of a political campaign) |