Planting the Wilderness; or, The Pioneer Boys. A story of frontier life.
By James D. McCabe, Jr.
Although the characters in this book are fictitious, the exciting incidents, as related, are based upon actual occurrences. The leading person is a Virginian, who in 1773 moved westward with his family, and settled in the Ohio valley.
The Young Pioneers of the North West.
By Dr. C. H. Pearson, author of "The Cabin on the Prairie."
As the title suggests, this book is a story of frontier life, full of movement, and absorbing in interest. The works of this author have been extremely popular.
The Cabin on the Prairie.
By Dr. C. H. Pearson. A picture of an emigrant's life in early days in Minnesota.
The author says, "In writing this work I have lived over the scenes and incidents of my frontier experience, have travelled once more amid the waving grasses and beckoning flowers, heard again the bark of the wolf and the voices of birds, worshipped anew in the log-cabin sanctuary."
Great Men and Gallant Deeds.
By John G. Edgar.
This is a history of the Crusades and Crusaders by an able and accomplished writer, who (in his preface) says, "I have endeavored to narrate the events of the Holy War, from the time Peter the Hermit rode over Europe on his mule, rousing the religious zeal of the nations, to that dismal day when Acre, the last stronghold of the Christians in the East, fell before the arms of the successor of Saladin."
Golden Hair: A Tale of the Pilgrim Fathers.
By Sir Lascelles Wraxhall, Bart.
The scenes of this story are laid in the eastern part of Massachusetts, in Rhode Island, and along Long Island Sound. The names of the fathers give to the narrative an air of truth, although there is no pretence of historical verity.