Books with author Everett 1862-1929 McNeil

Excerpt from Buried Treasure: A Tale of an Old HouseWaters into a small pond, thence under the arch Of an Old stone bridge and on down into the wooded depths Of The Glen, Where it tum bles its waters over huge boulders, through a deep ravine, until they finally join the sullen flow of Murderer's Creek.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

THE CAVE OF GOLD (A Tale of California in '49) By Henry Everett McNeil A tale about gold being discovered near California two years after the Mexican-America war ended in 1846. The story revolves around two teen-aged boys who are forced to look after their families when the men go off to hunt for a gold treasure. Before long, the boys are given a map of the Cave of Gold by a dying man, but that is just the start of their many adventures.

Excerpt from Buried Treasure: A Tale of an Old HouseWaters into a small pond, thence under the arch Of an Old stone bridge and on down into the wooded depths Of The Glen, Where it tum bles its waters over huge boulders, through a deep ravine, until they finally join the sullen flow of Murderer's Creek.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Cave of Gold: A Tale of California in '49In the present story an attempt has been made, not only to tell an interesting tale, but to interest the younger generation in this remarkable and dra matic phase of our national development, possibly the most picturesque and dramatic period in the his tory of the nation: to picture to them how these knights ofsthe pick and the shovel lived and worked, how' they found and wrested the gold from the 'hard hand of nature, and to give to them something of an idea of the hardships and the perils they were obliged to endure while doing it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from In Texas With Davy Crockett: A Story of the Texas War of IndependenceTexas is now one of the greatest states of a great nation; but, at the date when our story begins, the larger part of its vast territory was almost an un broken wilderness, where the Indians and the wild animals roamed as freely as they did when Colum bus discovered America. A few hunters and trap pers, little more civilized than the savages them selves, and now and then an American or a Mexican drover, who chased and captured for the Louisiana and the San Antonio markets the wild mustang ponies that roamed in great numbers over these vast solitudes, alone of white men traversed this wild region; and in all that immensity of prai rie and forest and mountain and valley there was not then a permanent white habitation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Henry Everett McNeil (1862 - December 1929) was a leading children's author of the 1910s and 1920s, and was an original and core member of the Kalem Club circle around the writer H. P. Lovecraft. McNeil played a crucial role in the career of H.P. Lovecraft, in that he was the first to urge Lovecraft to submit his fiction to Weird Tales magazine in the early 1920s McNeil's fiction was published under the name 'Everett McNeil' and consisted of boys' adventure books and stories for magazines such as Boy's Life. His tales were historical in setting, often featuring immense wild landscapes, and were "addressed to boys, written for boys" without any moralistic preaching or many political details. In book form his fiction appears to have retained a popularity from the 1900s into the 1950s, when it went out of fashion. Three of his books form a trilogy: The Hermit of the Culebra Mountains (1904); The Lost Treasure Cave (1905); and The Lost Nation (1918). Most of his novels were published by E.P. Dutton. McNeil also wrote short stories and magazine articles, and occasional humorous poetry