Lightning express

About this eBook

Author

Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897

Title

Lightning Express : or, The rival academies

Original Publication

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869.

Credits

Terry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Railroad stories

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 76892

Release Date

September 17, 2025

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LIGHTNING EXPRESS;
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.CHAPTER I. A STOCKHOLDERS’ MEETING.
6. 6.CHAPTER II. THE STOCKHOLDERS IN COUNCIL.
7. 7.CHAPTER III. THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROAD.
8. 8.CHAPTER IV. OFF FOR THE CAMP.
9. 9.CHAPTER V. BREEZY PROSPECT AHEAD.
10. 10.CHAPTER VI. A MISSION OF PEACE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VII. MAJOR TOMMY GETS MAD.
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII. CHARGE BAYONETS!
13. 13.CHAPTER IX. FEATHERS AND THE ENGINEER.
14. 14.CHAPTER X. KEEPING THE PEACE.
15. 15.CHAPTER XI. AT THE HORSE SHOE.
16. 16.CHAPTER XII. UP THE LAKE.
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII. IF THINE ENEMY HUNGER.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV. COLONEL WIMPLETON BIDS HIGH.
19. 19.CHAPTER XV. THE IMPENDING BATTLE.
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI. THE BATTLE OF THE HORSE SHOE.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII. THE PRISONER OF WAR.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII. RESCUING A PRISONER.
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX. A TYRANNICAL SON.
24. 24.CHAPTER XX. THE LIGHTNING EXPRESS TRAIN.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI. MAKING UP TIME.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII. THE NEW FIREMAN.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII. THE PRESIDENT AND THE ENGINEER.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV. THE PRESIDENT HAS A FALL.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV. THE PRESIDENT IN TROUBLE.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI. THE NEW STEAMER. — Transcriber’s Notes

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