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Excerpt from The Fetters of FreedomAs everybody knows who is familiar with the making of my many books, but one out of the number I have written is without a preface. Like everybody addicted to the preface habit I have been accustomed to write the preface after everything else has been completed. This time I reverse the practice. Gentle reader, not one word of the story has as yet been put on paper! I am resolved to be honest in at least one b...

Excerpt from A Baby of the Frontier Incredible as some of the adventures centring about the baby as hereafter narrated may seem, there is abundant justification in fact for them all. Most of them really happened. Many of them were related to the author by old army friends on winter nights around huge log fires in frontier posts of other days, vanished long since like most of the characters in the story, red and white. The author joys in the ...

Excerpt from The Master of Repartee: And Other Preachments Long and Short I Do not often write what I have to say. These writings that follow have been carefully prepared for special occasions and opportunities when I preferred to have what I wanted to say set down before me in black and white. Many of these sermons, addresses, and lectures have been published in papers and magazines in different parts of the country, as The Living Church, Th...

Excerpt from Northwestern Fights and Fighters T will be noticed that this book differs from others of the american fights and fighters series, and especially its immediate predecessor, Indian Fights and Fighters, in that I am not the author of all or most of it. In response to a request for contributions from participants in the Modoc and Nez Percé wars, numerous papers were sub mitred, all of such high value, not only from an historic but fr...

Excerpt from As the Sparks Fly Upward I may as well admit the obvious: I am a confirmed Prefaceteer, or, since I am coining a word, shall I say Prefateer? - one who writes prefaces. I think it can not be gainsaid that I am guilty of more prefaces - and books! - than any other living author. And the end is not yet! Having done something, I can not resist the temptation to talk about it - as the hen cackles when she lays an egg. Publishers, cri...

Excerpt from American Fights and Fighters Series Colonial Fights and FightersI have made a selection Of events to be discussed, in accordance with my fancy, but I have tried to select those which would Show some Of the diverse elements and conditions which are met with in pre-revolutionary history. AS I have said, I have freely made use Of every source Of information which would throw light upon the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books p...

Excerpt from Under Tops'ls and TentsSavage Dentistry. - A Lucky Move. - A Narrow Escape. - Hard ships on a Leaky Ship. - Squalls. - Breakers Ahead - Man Overboard. - Fire. - A Collision. - The Aftermath. - Tacking Ship the First Time. Disgraced. Sweeping Over the Spuds. - Another Failure. Success at Last. - Marvellous Navigation. - All Hands Overboard - Jack Sharkee.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...

Excerpt from The Quiberon Touch: A Romance of the Days When the Great Lord Hawke Was King of the SeaOn the morning of the 3d Of July, 1754, the young captain was restlessly pacing the weather side of the small quarter-deck of his brig in close consultation with his first lieutenant, a kindred Spirit, named Stanhope.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comT...

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Excerpt from When the Sun Stood StillThe whole period was so intensely fascinating, so wonderfully dramatic, that the story was al most written to hand. The fictional touches neces sitated were so simple, and in a certain sense so inevitable, that the novel wrote itself. Now that I have finished it I survey it with more satisfaction than I usually allow myself to indulge in over my own literary bantlings.About the PublisherForgotten Books publ...

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Excerpt from In the Wasp's Nest: The Story of a Sea Waif in the War of 1812The boys of the service, bless them, have always played a large part in making history for the nation.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 reconstruct the wo...