Books with title The Mysterious Circus

First published in 1921, this new Raging Bull Edition contains the original text as well as background articles including: - Zane Grey – A Biography of a Western Literary Genius - Zane Grey - A List of Books by the Great Western Author - The Wild West – A Brief Overview THE MYSTERIOUS RIDER Hell-Bent Wade, a gunfighter with a shadowy past, arrives at a Colorado homestead where a young woman is being pressured into matrimony. Rancher Bill believes that marriage to Columbine, his foster daughter, will steady his wild and unruly son, Jack. Columbine is torn between her feelings of duty and affection for the old man, who raised her as his own child, and her blossoming love for a young ranch hand, Wilson Moore. Columbine's dilemma seems impossible to resolve — until tragedy, fate, and the mysterious rider intervene. VISIT WWW.RAGINGBULLPUBLISHING.COM AND DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE WESTERN STARTER LIBRARY

The Mysterious Creature written and illustrated by Randon T. Eddy is an 8" x 10", 32 page, hard cover, early reader picture book with each page artistically illustrated in watercolor depicting 'real' wild animals. Each page has one to four lines of text for easy reading and story telling. The story revolves around a rumor started by Tiny Mouse and told to Pretty Panther about a mysterious creature roaming the Land of Everywhere. Many animals form frightening imaginings about the creature and they make a plan to find it. Among the other animals in the story are Big Bear, Pete, the prairie dog, Red, the red-eyed tree frog, Eddy Eider, Liz the frilled lizard, and Ricky and Reba, the twin raccoons. The ending is happy and full of surprises. The Mysterious Creature is Published by Jungle House Publications.

Mass market paperback of the classic western, The Mysterious Rider by Zane Grey. Excerpt from Chapter One: A September sun, losing some of its heat if not its bril-liance, was dropping low in the west over the black Colo-rado range. Purple haze began to thicken in the timbered notches. Gray foothills, round and billowy, rolled down from the higher country. They were smooth, sweeping, with long velvety slopes and isolated patches of aspens that blazed in autumn gold. Splotches of red vine colored the soft gray of sage. Old White Slides, a mountain scarred by avalanche, towered with bleak rocky peak above the valley, sheltering it from the north. A girl rode along the slope, with gaze on the sweep and range and color of the mountain fastness that was her home. She followed an old trail which led to a bluff overlooking an arm of the valley. Once it had been a familiar lookout for her, but she had not visited the place of late. It was associated with serious hours of her life. Here seven years before, when she was twelve, she had made a hard choice to please her guardian--the old rancher whom she loved and called father, who had in-deed been a father to her. That choice had been to go to school in Denver. Four years she had lived away from her beloved gray hills and black mountains. Only once since her return had she climbed to this height, and that occa-sion, too, was memorable as an unhappy hour. It had been three years ago. To-day girlish ordeals and griefs seemed back in the past: she was a woman at nineteen and face to face with the first great problem in her life. The trail came up back of the bluff, through a clump of aspens with white trunks and yellow fluttering leaves, and led across a level bench of luxuriant grass and wild flowers to the rocky edge. She dismounted and threw the bridle. Her mustang, used to being petted, rubbed his sleek, dark head against her and evidently expected like demonstration in return, but as none was forthcoming he bent his nose to the grass and began grazing. The girl's eyes were intent upon some waving, slender, white-and-blue flowers. They smiled up wanly, like pale stars, out of the long grass that had a tinge of gold. "Columbines," she mused, wistfully, as she plucked several of the flowers and held them up to gaze wonder-ingly at them, as if to see in them some revelation of the mystery that shrouded her birth and her name. Then she stood with dreamy gaze upon the distant ranges. "Columbine!... So they named me--those miners who found me--a baby--lost in the woods--asleep among the columbines." She spoke aloud, as if the sound of her voice might convince her.

The Mysterious Rider is a western novel written by Zane Grey. The action centers around a girl named Columbine who was raised by a rancher as though she was his own. Columbine promises to marry the rancher's son Jack but she falls in love with a charismatic cowboy. Zane Grey was a prolific American writer of historical and western novels. Grey's books were a big influence on the idealization of the American frontier and his book Riders of the Purple Sage is considered by many to be the greatest western novel ever written.

If you liked Robbery on the Atlantic Special, or the Ridgeville Caper, then be sure to read book two of the series! In Brooke Creek, MD, (Oliver's hometown) a mysterious siren keeps sounding without ever showing itself. Is this just an oddity, or is it part of something more important? Unlike most books these days, all books by Matthew Zisi are guaranteed to provide good entertainment for the entire family.

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