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May Hollis Barton Nell Grayson’s Ranching Days, or, A City Girl in the Great West New York: Cupples & Leon, 1926 The Barton Books for Girls series consisted of 15 titles produced and marketed by the Stratemeyer Syndicate under the "May Hollis…

Margaret Vandercook, 1876-1958 The Ranch Girls at Home Again Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1915 Part of the successful Ranch Girls series. Vandercook was also the author of books in the Camp Fire Girls series, the Girl Scouts series, and…

Genevra Sisson Snedden, 1873- Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara Boston: D.C. Heath & Co., 1904 First printed in 1899. Snedden was a student at Stanford, studying education in the class of 1898. In the preface, she writes: What sort of people…

Henry Inman, 1837-1899 The Delahoydes: Boy Life on the Old Santa Fé Trail by Colonel Henry Inman Topeka, Kan.: Crane & company, 1899 Inman was an Army officer and writer. He enlisted in 1857, serving in Oregon and California. He was transferred…

Kirk Munroe, 1850-1930 With Crockett and Bowie, or, Fighting for the Lone-Star Flag. A Tale of Texas New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898 Munroe led an interesting life. Born in Wisconsin, he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts as a young boy. He…

Harry Castlemon, 1842-1915 Frank in the Mountains Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates & Co., [1896] “Harry Castlemon” was the nom de plume of Charles Austin Fosdick, one of the most prolific writers of adventure stories for boys. He published at least…

Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1840-1916 The Great Cattle Trail Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, [1894] Ellis wrote at least 150 novels, the most famous of which was probably Seth Jones, for Beadle & Adams, 1861. This story begins: “Avon Burnet, at…

Albert W. Aiken Injun Paul; or, The Prairie Cat. An Arizona Romance. A Strange Story of Strange Adventure in a Strange Country New York: G. Munro, 1892 First printed in 1874; reprinted in 1892 as No. 8 in the Boys’ Dashaway series. The publisher…

Barbara Hofland, 1770-1844 The Stolen Boy: A Story, Founded on Facts. By Mrs. Hofland. New York: Hurst, [1880s?] This fairly conventional children’s novel recounts the story of Manuel’s three years in Comanche captivity after his kidnapping from his…

Frances Courtenay Baylor, 1848-1920 Juan and Juanita Boston and New York, Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 "This story of two unfortunate fortunates … is true in its essential facts. That is, two Mexican children were really captured some years since on the…