Joe Napyank; or, The River Rifles
by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
- Original Publication
- United States: Beadle and Adams,1870.
- Credits
- David Edwards, Stephen Hutcheson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (Northern Illinois University Digital Library)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Flatboats -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 66157
- Release Date
- August 28, 2021
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.JOE NAPYANK; OR, THE RIVER RIFLES.
- 2.CONTENTS — JOE NAPYANK.
- 3.CHAPTER I. ON THE OHIO.
- 4.CHAPTER II. NIGHT ON THE OHIO.—A VISITOR.—AN ORIGINAL CHARACTER.—PREMONITIONS OF DANGER.
- 5.CHAPTER III. TEDDY O’DONNELL AND HIS LOVE ADVENTURE. STARTLING CATASTROPHE.
- 6.CHAPTER IV. ON THE ISLAND.—ENVIRONED BY PERIL.—SAD FOREBODINGS.—YOUNG SMITH’S DESPERATE ADVENTURE.
- 7.CHAPTER V. SAD NEWS.—RECOVERY OF A RIFLE.
- 8.CHAPTER VI. A RECKLESS ADVENTURE.—CAPTURE OF TEDDY.—A VISIT TO THE FLAT-BOAT.—THOUGHTS OF RESCUE.
- 9.CHAPTER VII. DEATH AND CAPTURE.—THE COMPANIONS IN CAPTIVITY.
- 10.CHAPTER VIII. A NIGHT VOYAGE DOWN THE RIVER.—SINGULAR APPEARANCE.—THE DEPARTURE.
- 11.CHAPTER IX. IN THE DARK AND BLOODY GROUND.—THE SEPARATION.
- 12.CHAPTER X. A VAIN HUNT.—THE INDIAN CAMP.—DISCOVERY.—PURSUIT.—DESPERATE CONFLICT.—A MEETING.
- 13.CHAPTER XI. TEDDY O’DONNELL AND RUTH McGOWAN—IRISH SHREWDNESS—A PUGILISTIC TRIUMPH—THE INDIAN FIGHT—LIBERATION.
- 14.CHAPTER XII. THE END.
- 15.Frank Starr’s American Novels.
- 16.Transcriber’s Notes
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