Unfortunate building and journalistic speculation and enterprises involved him in financial failure, so he returned to New York in October, 1867. There he founded and conducted The Onward Magazine, but owing to recurring bad effects of his old Mexican wound, he had to abandon work for sometime and go into the hospital, on leaving which he returned to England in 1870. During the later years of his life he resided at Ross in Herefordshire where he died on the 22nd October, 1883, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Mayne Reid wrote in all thirty-five works, chiefly books of adventure and travel. As in the case of all authors, the books vary much in merit, but most of them are of a high order in their own department of literature. Many of them have been extraordinary popular and have become standard works. Reid has not been surpassed by any other writer in combining at one and the same time, the features of thrilling adventure and great instruction in the fields of natural history. Many of the works have been translated into Continental languages and are as highly esteemed among the French and Germans as at home.

CONTENTS

The Young Voyageurs

OR

BOY HUNTERS IN THE NORTH.

CHAPTER IPAGE
THE FUR COUNTRIES[13]
CHAPTER II
THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS[16]
CHAPTER III
THE TRUMPETER SWAN AND THE BALD EAGLE[22]
CHAPTER IV
A SWAN-HUNT BY TORCHLIGHT[29]
CHAPTER V
“CAST AWAY”[34]
CHAPTER VI
A BRIDGE OF BUCKSKIN[37]
CHAPTER VII
DECOYING THE ANTELOPES[41]
CHAPTER VIII
“A PARTRIDGE DANCE”[45]
CHAPTER IX
BASIL AND THE BISON-BULL[48]
CHAPTER X
THREE CURIOUS TREES[52]
CHAPTER XI
HOW TO BUILD A BARK CANOE[56]
CHAPTER XII
THE CHAIN OF LAKES[59]
CHAPTER XIII
WAPITI, WOLVES, AND WOLVERENE[62]
CHAPTER XIV
A PAIR OF DEEP DIVERS[69]
CHAPTER XV
A GRAND SUNDAY DINNER[73]
CHAPTER XVI
THE MARMOTS OF AMERICA[79]
CHAPTER XVII
THE BLAIREAU, THE “TAWNIES,” AND THE “LEOPARDS”[82]
CHAPTER XVIII
AN ODD SORT OF DECOY-DUCK[86]
CHAPTER XIX
THE SHRIKE AND THE HUMMING-BIRDS[91]
CHAPTER XX
THE FISH-HAWK[94]
CHAPTER XXI
THE OSPREY AND HIS TYRANT[97]
CHAPTER XXII
THE VOYAGE INTERRUPTED[102]
CHAPTER XXIII
FISHING UNDER THE ICE[105]
CHAPTER XXIV
AN ODD ALARM[107]
CHAPTER XXV
ENCOUNTER WITH A MOOSE[113]
CHAPTER XXVI
LIFE IN A LOG-HUT[117]
CHAPTER XXVII
TRAVELLING ON SNOW-SHOES[121]
CHAPTER XXVIII
THE BARREN GROUNDS[125]
CHAPTER XXIX
THE ROCK-TRIPE[130]
CHAPTER XXX
THE POLAR HARE AND THE GREAT SNOWY OWL[133]
CHAPTER XXXI
THE JUMPING MOUSE AND THE ERMINE[138]
CHAPTER XXXII
THE ARCTIC FOX AND WHITE WOLF[140]
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE JERFALCON AND THE WHITE GROUSE[145]
CHAPTER XXXIV
THE HARE, THE LYNX, AND THE GOLDEN EAGLE[147]
CHAPTER XXXV
THE “ALARM BIRD” AND THE CARIBOU[151]
CHAPTER XXXVI
A BATTLE WITH WOLVES[155]
CHAPTER XXXVII
END OF THE “VOYAGE”[160]