Books with author Edward Sylvester Ellis

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The high moral character, the clean, manly tendencies and the admirable literary style of Mr. Ellis' stories have made him as popular on the other side of the Atlantic as in this country. A leading paper remarked some time since, that no mother need hesitate to place in the hands of her boy any book written by Mr. Ellis. They are found in the leading Sunday-school libraries, where, as may well be believed, they are in wide demand and do much good by their sound, wholesome lessons which render them as acceptable to parents as to their children. Mr. Ellis is a writer of varied accomplishments, and, in addition to his stories, is the author of historical works, of a number of pieces of popular music, and has made several valuable inventions. CONTENTS. I. A MERRY GROUP II. A WARNING FROM THE WOODS III. THE FLIGHT OVER THE ICE IV. THE REPORT OF GUNS V. LOOKING SOUTHWARD VI. COWMEN AND RUSTLERS VII. THE WARNING VIII. GOOD-BY IX. A SUMMONS AND A REPLY X. A HOT PURSUIT XI. A STRANGE DIVERSION XII. THE BACK TRAIL XIII. A CONSULTATION XIV. UNWELCOME CALLERS XV. THE "DOG INDIANS" XVI. AN UNPLEASANT VISIT XVII. A DELICATE SITUATION XVIII. A MISCALCULATION XIX. THE BURNED RANCH XX. THE TRUCE XXI. A MESSENGER IN HASTE XXII. IMPORTANT TIDINGS XXIII. AT BAY XXIV. THE PRIMITIVE FORT XXV. THE FLAG or TRUCE XXVI. THE UNDERGROUND MISSIVE XXVII. ON PAROLE XXVIII. THE FINAL SUMMONS XXIX. A STRANGE OCCURRENCE XXX. THE MISSING ONE XXXI. WHY IT WAS DONE XXXII. THE HOSTAGE XXXIII. THE PRISONER XXXIV. OUT IN THE NIGHT

EASTWARD BOUND. Deerfoot the Shawanoe, Mul-tal-la the Blackfoot, and the twin brothers, George and Victor Shelton, had completed their long journey from the Ohio River to the Pacific slope, and, standing on an elevation near the Columbia, spent hours in looking out upon the face of the mightiest ocean of the globe. They feasted their vision on the magnificent scene, with the miles of wilderness, mountain, vale, river and Indian villages spread between their feet and the ocean. It was a picture worth journeying across the continent to see. From beyond the convex world a ship had sailed up to view, its snowy sails looking at first like a tiny but growing cloud in the soft sky. As the craft drew steadily nearer, they saw it careening to one side under the impulse of the wind against the bellying canvas, while the curling foam at the bows spread out like a fan and dissolved in the clear waters beyond the stern.

Jeff Graham was an Argonaut who crossed the plains in 1849, while he was yet in his teens, and settling in California, made it his permanent home. When he left Independence, Mo., with the train, his parents and one sister were his companions, but all of them were buried on the prairie, and their loss robbed him of the desire ever to return to the East. Hostile Indians, storm, cold, heat, privation, and suffering were the causes of their taking off, as they have been of hundreds who undertook the long journey to the Pacific coast in quest of gold.

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A MERRY GROUP. The Whitney household, in the western part of Maine, was filled with sunshine, merriment and delight, on a certain winter evening a few years ago. There was the quiet, thoughtful mother, now past her prime, but with many traces of the beauty and refinement that made her the belle of the little country town until Hugh Whitney, the strong-bearded soldier, who had entered the war as private and emerged therefrom with several wounds and with the eagles of a colonel on his shoulder, carried her away from all admirers and made her his bride. Hugh had been absent a couple of weeks in Montana and Wyoming, whither he was drawn by a yearning of many years' standing to engage in the cattle business. He had received some tuition as a cowboy on the Llano Estacada, and the taste there acquired of the free, wild life, supplemented, doubtless, by his experience during the war, was held in restraint for a time only by his marriage.

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