The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River Plains


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"The Buffalo Runners: A Tale of the Red River Plains" is a children's adventure novel set in the American Old West by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne. Full of thrilling action, terrible danger, and intrepid heroism, "The Buffalo Runners" will appeal to children with an interest in history and would make for a worthy addition to collections of vintage Western literature. Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author of children's fiction. He was a prolific writer and produced over 100 books in his lifetime. As well as being an author, Ballantyne was also an accomplished artist, having exhibited his work at the Royal Scottish Academy. Other notable works by this author include: "The Coral Island" (1858), "The Gorilla Hunters" (1861), and "The Eagle Cliff" (1889). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction and biography of the author. This book was first published in 1861.




The Buffalo Runners


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CHAPTER ONE. A TALE OF THE RED RIVER PLAINS. CHAPTER TWO. A LAZY COUPLE DESCRIBED--AND ROUSED. CHAPTER THREE. TO THE RESCUE. CHAPTER FOUR. TELLS OF LOVE, DUTY, STARVATION, AND MURDER. CHAPTER FIVE. SAVED. CHAPTER SIX. DISCORD AND DECEIT, ETCETERA. CHAPTER SEVEN. VIXEN DELIVERED AND WOLVES DEFEATED. CHAPTER EIGHT. STIRRING EVENTS DESCRIBED. CHAPTER NINE. OLD PEG. CHAPTER TEN. ARCHIE AND LITTLE BILL DO WONDERS. CHAPTER ELEVEN. SHOWS SOME OF THE TROUBLES OF PIONEER COLONISTS. CHAPTER TWELVE. ROUND THE CAMP-FIRES. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. DIFFICULTIES OF VARIOUS KINDS OVERCOME. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. TREACHERY IN THE AIR. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. A FRIEND IN NEED IS A FRIEND INDEED. CHAPTER SIXTEEN. AN EVENING IN THE CAMP. CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. THE BUFFALO-HUNT. CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. ADVENTURES OF ARCHIE AND THE SEAMAN. CHAPTER NINETEEN. BRIGHT HOPES TERMINATE IN FURIOUS WAR. CHAPTER TWENTY. LITTLE BILL BECOMES A DIFFICULTY. CHAPTER TWENTY ONE. AN AUSPICIOUS BEGINNING AND SUSPICIOUS ENDING. CHAPTER TWENTY TWO. CIRCUMVENTING THE RED-SKINS. CHAPTER TWENTY THREE. A MIDNIGHT CHASE, AND DAN IN EXTREMITY. CHAPTER TWENTY FOUR. A DESPERATE SITUATION. CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE. ADVENTURES OF FERGUS AND HIS FRIENDS. CHAPTER TWENTY SIX. HOME-COMING AND BARGAINING. CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN. VISIT FROM SIOUX BROUGHT TO A DISASTROUS CLOSE. CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT. VERY PERPLEXING INTERVIEWS WITH LITTLE BILL. CHAPTER TWENTY NINE. THE FISHERY DISASTERS. CHAPTER THIRTY. THE TRIAL FOR MURDER. CHAPTER THIRTY ONE. RETRIBUTION. CHAPTER THIRTY TWO. SUFFERING AND ITS RESULTS. CHAPTER THIRTY THREE. MATRIMONIAL PLANS AND PROSPECTS. CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR. A NEW DISASTER. CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE. THE LAST.




The Buffalo Runners


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R.M. Ballantyne Author profile born Edinburgh, Scotland, The United Kingdom gendermale Keywords: Kindle, kindle free, boys, ballantyne, adventure, christian, Boys adventure About this author edit data R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer. Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. The Buffalo Runners by R.M. Ballantyne This is a tale of the buffalo hunters in the american midwest.




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Blown to Bits


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Reproduction of the original: Blown to Bits by Robert Michael Ballantyne




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The Social Dimensions of Fiction


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This work is a comparative study of nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French Canadian novel prefaces, a previously unexplored literary topic. As a study in Comparative Literature - with the application of a specific literary framework and methodology - the study conforms to theoretical and methodological postulates formulated in and prescribed by this framework when applied. This a priori postulate necessitates that the research on and the presentation of the Canadian novel preface be carried out in a specific manner, as follows. First, the study will establish the hypothesis that the preface to nineteenth-century English-Canadian and French-Canadian novels is a genre in its own right. This hypothesis will rest on the following: 1) a taxonomical survey of related terms meaning "preface"; 2) a survey of secondary Iiterature of works dealing with the preface; 3) a discussion of the theoretical framework and methodology of the Empirical Theory of Literature and its appropriateness for the study of the preface; and 4) a discussion of the process of the compilation of the corpus of nineteenth-century Canadian novel prefaces (Chapter one). In a second step, the theoretical postulate outlined in the hypothesis will be put into practice by the development and production of a preface typology (Chapter two). In a third step, further tenets of the Empirical Theory of Literature will be tested on the corpus of the prefaces (Chapter three). In a fourth step, the prefaces will be analysed following the tenets formulated in and prescribed by the systemic framework applied (Chapter four).




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