The Free Rangers

Description

Joseph Alexander Altsheler (1862 – 1919) was born in Kentucky, worked on a Louisville newspaper and later for the New York World. He published the first of over 50 books and numerous short stories in about 1896. The Riflemen of the Ohio is the sixth in an 8-volume series called “The Young Trailers”. He also published a six-volume series called “The French and Indian War series”. A story of early days along the Mississippi. Continues the fortunes of the boys whose achievements were set down in “The Forest Runner”, and tells of their journey down the Mississippi to New Orleans whither they go to present to the Spanish Governor-General the true state of affairs between the American settlers in Kentucky and the emissaries of Spain. After numerous encounters with their old enemy, Braxton Wyatt, and a traitorous Spanish agent, they accomplish their object and help thru the safe voyage of a supply fleet from New Orleans to Kentucky. – Book Review Digest

First Sentence

The wilderness rolled away to north and to south, and also it rolled away to east and to west, an unbroken sweep of dark, glossy green.

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Other Editions

• The Free RangersPaperback1st World Library - Literary Society2005-10-15
• The free rangersAppleton1909-01-01
• The free rangersAppleton-Century-Crofts1936-01-01
• The Free RangersPaperback1st World Library2004-01-01
• The Free RangersPaperbackKessinger Publishing2004-06-30
• The Free RangersPaperbackIndyPublish.com2005-07-01