Books published by publisher Charles Scribner's Sons, NY

From inside the book:"Heroes and Leaders in American History," is a series which will include many of the men, in various fields of service in our national life, who have had much to do with making our country what it is to-day.In writing this volume my aim has been to make real to my young readers Abraham Lincoln; first as a youth who worked and struggled in the backwoods to prepare himself for greater usefulness; then as a man raised by his own merits to positions of responsibility; and, finally, as a leader of a great nation, who through four of the most troubled years of that nation's history carried its burdens amid peril and crisis; but always and under all circumstances as one who was simple, honest, and friendly, living true to high and unselfish motives of service to his fellow men.This pre-1923 publication has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the formatting process.

John Fox Jr. was the novelist that brought Appalachia, the wilderness, and the new frontiers to readers in the East, romanticizing life in the back woods, and the homey side of life. Here is a collection of stories that includes the classics Christmas Eve on Lonesome and Hell for Satan (Sairtin and other spellings), and also includes the Army of the Callahan, The Last Stetson, The Pardon of Becky Day, A Crisis for the Guard, and Christmas Eve with Satan. Color frontispiece with tissue depicts little girl in store with Satan, "only a woolly little black dog, and surely no dog was ever more absurdly misnamed" (p. 203).

In this classic story of the Baxter family of inland Florida and their wild, hard, satisfying life, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied story - tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, with humor and earthy philosophy - The Yearling is a novel for readers of all tastes and ages.Its glowing picture of life that is far and refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living becomes universal in its revelation of simple courageous people and the abiding beliefs they live by. Winner of Pulitzer Prize in 1938, The Yearling was made available the following year in a special edition illustrated by the distinguished American artist, N.C. Wyeth.The original paintings have been re-photographed and new plates made for this handsome volume.