Motor Rangers Series
By MARVIN WEST
OUTDOOR LIFE STORIES FOR MODERN BOYS
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The Motor Rangers' Lost Mine.
A new series dealing with an idea altogether original in juvenilefiction,--the adventures of a party of bright, enterprising youngstersin a splendid motor car. Their first trip takes them to the dim andmysterious land of Lower California.
Naturally, as one would judge from the title, the lost mine, whichproves to be Nat Trevor's rightful inheritance,--occupies much of theinterest of the book. But the mine was in the possession of enemies sopowerful and wealthy that it taxed the boys' resources to the uttermostto overcome them. How they did so makes absorbing reading.
In this book also, the young motor rangers solve the mystery of thehaunted Mexican cabin, and exterminate for all time a strange terror ofthe mountains which has almost devastated a part of the peninsula.
The Motor Rangers too, have an exciting encounter with Mexican cowboys,which beginning comically, comes very near having a serious terminationfor all hands. Emphatically "third speed" books.
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BORDER BOY SERIES
BY
FREMONT B. DEERING
Frontier Stories for Modern Boys
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The Border Boys on the Trail.
There is little left of the romantic western life of which ourforefathers delighted to read and in which they not infrequently took apart. The author of this series has, however, taken to himself modernconditions in this interesting section of the country in a vital way.
The pages of this book throb with the strenuous outdoor life andpastimes of the ranch and range. The volume is as vivid as a westernsunset and as lively as a bucking broncho. What boy will not want toread of the adventures of the ranchers and the boys in Grizzly Pass andthe strange strategy of Black Ramon--the Border cattle-rustler whichcame nearly costing them all their lives?
But the adventures do not terminate at the annihilation of the bridgeby the rustler's gang. They elude pursuit for a time by this means butonly for a time. The beginning of the end of their depredations comeswhen Jack and his cowpuncher chum escape from the bell-tower of theold mission. From then on to the conclusion of the book events come asfast as the discharge of an automatic rifle, or the rattling executionof the long roll on a snare-drum. No boy should fail to read how theMexicans almost succeeded in releasing the pent-up waters of theirrigation dam and ruining a vast track of country. Thoroughly healthyin tone and appealing to manly standards the Border Boys are idealchums for the wholesome lads of to-day.
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BOY SCOUT SERIES
BY
LIEUT. HOWARD PAYSON
MODERN BOY SCOUT STORIES FOR BOYS
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The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol.
A fascinating narrative of the doings of some bright boys who becomepart of the great Boy Scout movement. The first of a series dealingwith this organization, which has caught on like wild fire amonghealthy boys of all ages and in all parts of the country.
While in no sense text-book, the volume deals, amid its excitingadventures, with the practical side of Scouting. To Rob Blake and hiscompanions in the Eagle Patrol, surprising, and sometimes perilousthings happen constantly. But the lads, who are, after all, typical ofmost young Americans of their type, are resourceful enough to overcomeevery one of their dangers and difficulties.
How they discover the whereabouts of little Joe, the "kid" of thepatrol, by means of smoke telegraphy and track his abductors to theirdisgrace; how they assist the passengers of a stranded steamer and foila plot to harm and perhaps kill an aged sea-captain, one must read thebook to learn. A swift-moving narrative of convincing interest andbreathless incident.
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Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired. Varied hyphenation was retained.
Page 54, "attampt" changed to "attempt" (and an attempt made)
Page 160, "penertate" changed to "penetrate" (could not penetrate into)
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