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    The Golden Canyon
    The Golden Canyon
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    The Golden Canyon

    By G. A. Henty

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    Historical novel set in the American Wild West. According to Wikipedia: "George Alfred Henty (8 December 1832 - 16 November 1902), referred to as G. A. Henty, was a prolific English novelist, special correspondent, and Imperialist born in Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England. He is best known for his historical adventure stories that were popular in the late 19th century. His works include Out on the Pampas (1871), The Young Buglers (1880), With Clive in India (1884) and Wulf the Saxon (1895)."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455367870
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      The Golden Canyon - G. A. Henty

      THE GOLDEN CANYON BY G. A. HENTY

      published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA

      established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books

      Historical novels by G. A. Henty:

      Among the Malay Pirates

      At Aboukir and Acre

      At Agincourt

      At the Point of the Bayonet

      Bonnie Prince Charlie

      Both Sides of the Border

      Boy Knight

      Bravest of the Brave, With Peterborough in Spain

      By Conduct and Courage

      By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands

      By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic

      By Right of Conquest or With Cortez in Mexico

      By Sheer Pluck: a Tale of the Ashanti War

      Captain Bayley's Heir: a Tale of the Gold Fields of California

      Colonel Thorndyke's Secret

      Condemned as a Nihilist: a Story of Escape from Siberia

      The Cornet of the Horse: a Tale of Marlbough's Wars

      Dash for Khartoum: a Tale of the Nile Expedition

      The Dragon and the Raven or the Days of King Arthur

      A Final Reckoning: a Tale of Bush Life in Australia

      For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes

      For the Temple: a Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem

      Forest and Frontiers or Adventures Among the Indians

      Friends Though Divided: a Tale of the Civil War

      Girl of the Commune

      The Golden Canyon

      Held Fast for England: a Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar

      In Freedom's Cause

      In the Heart of the Rockies: a Story of Adventure in Colorado

      In the Irish Brigade: a Tale of War in Flanders and Spain

      In the Reign of Terror: the Adventures of a Westminster Boy

      In Times of Peril: a Tale of India

      Jack Archer: a Tale of the Crimea

      Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service to King Charles XII of Sweden

      The Knight of the White Cross

      The Lion of St. Mark: a Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century

      The Lion of the North: a Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus

      A March on London: Being a story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection

      No Surrender! a Tale of the Rising in Vendee

      On the Irrawaddy: a Story of the First Burmese War

      On the Pampas or the Young Settlers

      One of the 28th: a Tale of Waterloo

      The Orange and the Green: a Tale of Boyne and Limerick

      The Queen's Cup

      Rujub the Juggler

      Saint Bartholomew's Eve: a Tale of the Huguenot Wars

      Saint George for England

      Tales of Daring and Danger

      Through the Fray: a Tale of the Luddite Riots

      Through Three Campaigns: a Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti

      The Tiger of Mysore: a Story of the War with Tippoo Saib

      The Treasure of the Incas: a Story of Adventure in Peru

      True to the Old Flag: a Tale of the American War of Independence

      Under Drake's Flag: a Tale of the Spanish Main

      Under Wellington's Command: a Tale of the Peninsular War

      When London Burned

      Winning His Spurs

      With Buller in Natal or a Born Leader

      With Clive in India or the Beginnings of an Empire

      With Frederick the Great: a Story of the Seven Years' War

      With Kitchener in the Soudan: a Story of Atbara and Omdurman

      With Lee in Virginia: a Story of the Amerian Civil War

      With Moore at Corunna

      With Wolfe in Canada or the Winning of a Continent

      Won by the Sword: a Story of the Thiry Years' War

      Wulf the Saxon: a Story of the Norman Conquest

      Young Buglers

      The Young Carthaginian: a Story of the Times of Hannibal

      The Young Franc Tireurs and Their Advenures in the Franco-Prussian War

      feedback welcome: info@samizdat.com

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      First published:

      New York

      Hurst & Company Publishers.

      1899

      Publisher’s Introduction

      I. A Run Ashore

      II. Dick's Escape

       III. The Gold-Seekers

      IV. More Plans

      V. The Search For The Canyon

      VI. The Map Again

      VII. The Scarcity Of Water

      VIII. The Golden Valley

      IX. The Tree On The Peak

      X. Watched

      XI. Hard At Work

       XII. Retreat

      XIII. The Redskin

      XIV. In The Ravine

      XV. Rifle-Shots

      XVI. On The Return

      XVII. Conclusion

      Publishers' Introduction

      George Alfred Henty has been called The Prince of Story-Tellers. To call him The Boy's Own Historian would perhaps be a more appropriate title, for time has proved that he is more than a story-teller; he is a preserver and propagator of history amongst boys.

      How Mr. Henty has risen to be worthy of these enviable titles is a story which will doubtless possess some amount of interest for all his readers.

      Henty may be said to have begun his preliminary training for his life-work when a boy attending school at Westminster. Even then the germ of his story-telling propensity seems to have evinced itself, for he was always awarded the highest marks in English composition.

      From Westminster he went to Cambridge, where he was enrolled as a student at Caius College. It is a decided change of scenery and circumstances from Cambridge to the Crimea, but such was the change which took place in Mr. Henty's career at the age of twenty-one.

      An appointment in connection with the commissariat department of the British army, took him from the scenes of student life into the excitement of the Muscovite war.

      Previous to this, however, he had written his first novel, which he has characterized as Very bad, no doubt, and was, of course, never published, but the plot was certainly a good one.

      Whilst engaged with his duties at the Crimea he sent home several descriptive letters of the places, people, and circumstances passing under his notice. His father, thinking some of those letters were of more than private interest, took a selection of them to the editor of the Morning Advertiser, who, after perusal of them, was so well pleased with their contents that he at once appointed young Henty as war correspondent to the paper in the Crimea.

      The ability with which he discharged his duties in the commissariat department at that time soon found for him another sphere of similar work in connection with the hospital of the Italian forces. After a short time this was relinquished for engagement in mining work, which he first entered into at Wales, and then in Italy.

      Ten years after his Crimean correspondence to the Morning Advertiser he again took to writing, and at this time obtained the position of special correspondent to the Standard. While holding this post, he contributed letters and articles on the wars in Italy and Abyssinia, and on the expedition to Khiva. Two novels came from his pen during this time, but his attention was mostly devoted to miscellaneous letters and articles.

      It is a specially interesting incident in the career of Mr. Henty how he came to turn his attention to writing for boys. When at home, after dinner, it was his habit to spend an hour or so with

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