The Desert Home

About this eBook

Author

Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883

Title

The desert home : or, The adventures of a lost family in the wilderness

Credits

Produced by Nick Hodson of London, England

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Deserts -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

24268

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24268

Release Date

January 13, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2."The Desert Home" — Chapter One. — The Great American Desert. — Chapter Two. — The White Peak. — Chapter Three. — The Valley Oasis. — Chapter Four. — The Strange Settlement. — Chapter Five. — Rolfe’s Early History. — Chapter Six. — The Virginia Plantation. — Chapter Seven. — The Caravan and its Fate. — Chapter Eight. — The Miner’s Story. — Chapter Nine. — Lost in the Desert. — Chapter Ten. — Adventure with an Armadillo. — Chapter Eleven. — A Very Lean Buffalo. — Chapter Twelve. — The Bighorns. — Chapter Thirteen. — The great Elk. — Chapter Fourteen. — Adventure with the Carcajou. — Chapter Fifteen. — A fruitless Search for a Trail. — Chapter Sixteen. — The Mysterious Flood. — Chapter Seventeen. — The Beavers and Wolverene. — Chapter Eighteen. — How to build a Log-Cabin. — Chapter Nineteen. — The Sagacious Squirrel. — Chapter Twenty. — A House built without a Nail. — Chapter Twenty One. — A Battue of “Black-Tails.” — Chapter Twenty Two. — Catching a Tartar. — Chapter Twenty Three. — The Salt Spring. — Chapter Twenty Four. — The Battle of the Snakes. — Chapter Twenty Five. — The Sugar-Tree. — Chapter Twenty Six. — The Stump-Tree and the Bread-Pine. — Chapter Twenty Seven. — The Snow-Line. — Chapter Twenty Eight. — The Menagerie, Aviary, and Botanic Garden. — Chapter Twenty Nine. — Trapping the Beasts and Birds. — Chapter Thirty. — The Biters Bit. — Chapter Thirty One. — Battle of the Marten and Porcupine. — Chapter Thirty Two. — The cunning old “’Coon.” — Chapter Thirty Three. — Little Mary and the Bee. — Chapter Thirty Four. — A Grand Bee-Hunt. — Chapter Thirty Five. — A Rival Honey-Robber. — Chapter Thirty Six. — The Battle of the Bucks. — Chapter Thirty Seven. — The Pit-Trap. — Chapter Thirty Eight. — The old “’Possum” and her Kittens. — Chapter Thirty Nine. — The Moccason Snake and the Orioles. — Chapter Forty. — The Battle of the Cougar and Peccaries. — Chapter Forty One. — Besieged in a Tree. — Chapter Forty Two. — An Adventure with Dusky Wolves. — Chapter Forty Three. — Taming the Great Elk. — Chapter Forty Four. — Catching the Wild Horses. — The End.

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