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Excerpt from The Forged Will: Or Crime and Retribution In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the wor...

Excerpt from The Brigand: A Poem "About that time there was a conspiracy laid, headed by one Don Pedro, who, to carry out his project, was base enough to attempt the life of his niece, for being the next akin he would come into possession of her property. He was foiled by his brother, whom he supposed to be dead. In his rage, supposing him to be a stranger, he slew him, but on finding he had slain his brother, the shock was so great as to cau...

Excerpt from Kate Clarendon: Or Necromancy in the WildernessSuch is an outline, only, Of the scene which is presented to the beholder of modern days but very different was it sixty years ago, when, along the banks Of the river and over the plain and hills, instead of the quiet village and its hum of civilization, and the many pleasant farms um der cultivation, and the farm-houses sending up in graceful wreaths the smoke of their peaceful fires...

Excerpt from The Phantom of the Forest: A Tale of the Dark and Bloody GroundWall don't a possum know all as natur' wanted him to? Queried Tom, half-facing round, but still stalking onward.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconst...

Excerpt from Clara Moreland, or Adventures in the Far South-West The first of October, of the year of our Lord 1845, found me a guest of the Tremont House, in the goodly city of Galveston, Texas. An invalid guest, I may add - for I had been confined to my room for some days, suffering much pain from a couple of flesh wounds received in a recent skirmish with a party of Texan brigands, somewhere between my present abode and the river Brazos, w...

Excerpt from The Female Spy, or Treason in the Camp: A Story of the Revolution Next behind the two personages thus de scribed, rode the two aids-de-camp of the General, also finely equipped, and wearing the uniforms assigned to the rank of major, and next behind these officers rode two black females, one of whom carried an infant in her arms while the rear-guard was composed of two black male servants in livery. Having brought the whole part...

Excerpt from The Forest Rose: A Tale of the Frontier About this time he wrote a poem The Corsair, which appeared in The Odd Fellows' Journal attracting marked attention. Later, he lived in Philadelphia and Baltimore, but in 1842 moved to Cincinnati where in reality his career as a writer, actively began. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This ...

Excerpt from The Prairie Flower: Or Adventures in the Far West As almost every one who takes any interest in a book, has some desire or curiosity to know how or why it came to be written, and as there are some things of which he desires to speak particularly, the author, compiler, or editor of Prairie Flower, (whichever you please, reader, ) has, after due consideration, decided on giving the information alluded to, in an introductory note to...

Excerpt from Leni Leoti, Or Adventures in the Far West: A Sequel to Prairie Flower No, not exactly. Making love, Miss Mortimer, I answered, turning to her with a forced smile, and, if truth must be owned, rather rejoiced 'than otherwise that she had broken off what must have proved a painful interview. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This boo...

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Excerpt from Viola, or Adventures in the Far South-West From my youth up, I had longed for novelty - to travel to go abroad and see the world for myself - and now the great desire of my life was being gratified. And so it would have been years before, could I have had my own way but I was under age, and my father inexorable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgo...

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