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Morgan, Howard E.
animal short story, classic animal fiction, dog protagonist, frontier life, loyalty and instinct, man and dog, nature vs civilization, sheepdog, wilderness fiction, wolf ancestry
On a moonlit hillside at the edge of the wilderness, Bill—a powerful mongrel sheepdog with wolf blood in his veins—stands guard over his master’s flock. Bound by fierce loyalty yet haunted by an inherited hunger for the…
Hoban, Frank
La Mar, Bud
La Mar, Bud
1920s cowboy story, aviation frontier comedy, comic Western novel, cowboy adventure story, early aviation humor, Old West humor, rodeo riders tale, slapstick Western fiction, vintage airplane adventure, western comedy fiction
When two down-on-their-luck cowboys strike gold at a rodeo and receive a crooked judge's invitation to split prize money, their celebration lands them in hot water with the law. Fleeing an angry mob—led by a marshal wie…
Hinton, Charles Louis
Martin, George Madden
Martin, George Madden
childhood fiction, classic short story, coming of age, early education, emotional growth, gentle romance, innocence, literary fiction, schoolroom story, vintage school life
Follow Emmy Lou from bewildered first-grader to confident young woman in this tender chronicle of childhood's small heartbreaks and quiet triumphs, set in a long-ago schoolroom where kindness matters more than being fir…
Tuttle, W. C. (Wilbur C.)
classic western fiction, cowboy humor, cowpuncher protagonists, dog companion, frontier justice, old west drama, orphan boy story, ranch sale plot, small town saloon, western adventure
A classic Western tale of two wandering cowpunchers who stumble into trouble in the small cow town of Oreana. Sad Sontag and Swede Harrigan arrive to bid on a ranch sale, but when they defend a young orphan named Speck …
Paul, Frank R.
Tanner, Charles R.
Tanner, Charles R.
1930s sci-fi, anti-gravity technology, Cold War espionage, detective scientist, golden age science fiction, kidnapping thriller, Russian spy story, scientific mystery, space travel deception, vintage pulp fiction
When Dr. Henshaw awakens as a captive aboard what appears to be a Russian spacecraft hurtling toward Venus, his kidnapper offers an impossible bargain: surrender his secret process in exchange for safe return to Earth. …
Curwood, James Oliver
Ralph, Lester
Ralph, Lester
Arctic blizzard, betrayal and heartbreak, classic romance tragedy, literary adventure, psychological fiction, snowbound train, spiritual redemption, stormy night atmosphere, wilderness drama, winter survival fiction
On a snowbound train at the edge of the Arctic, David Raine tells a stranger his story: a tale of a man destroyed by his wife's betrayal, a man who walked away from vengeance into the darkness of his own despair. The st…