Peter Blood, an Irish physician and soldier in England in the 1680's, is wrongly convicted of treason and sentenced to indentured slavery in the Caribbean. He escapes and becomes the most feared pirate captain on the Spanish Main, but all the glory of his adventures cannot help him, for the woman he loves cannot love a thief and pirate. Even when he destroys England's enemies, even at his most triumphant...
A vivid and thrilling description of adventures encountered on the great plains of America by a party of gold hunters in the days of '49. The story abounds in dramatic situations, daring deeds and miraculous escapes. The two books "The Rainbow of Gold", and "The Hidden Mine" tell how the adventurers found their treasure, and their struggles with freebooters to keep it. It is a facinating story of experiences on the frontier.
Pasayten Pete is an obscure north Cascades legend. As a boy growing up in the Methow Valley, Graydon Williams heard tell that Pasayten Pete was a hermit, a lost prospector, or even a creature not-human and not-animal. No one claimed to have seen him or knew anyone who had seen him, but everyone seemed to believe there was something to the legend. Graydon lived the real story.
Ever wonder what happened between books 2 and 3? So did I. Janice is telling this story as she and Bennie travel about the country about ten years after the Day.
Armed with only his wits and his cunning, one man recklessly defies the French revolutionaries and rescues scores of innocent men, women, and children from the deadly guillotine. His friends and foes know him only as the Scarlet Pimpernel. But the ruthless French agent Chauve