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The lone ranche : a tale of the 'Staked Plain'
Let us wish you a happy birthday! Day 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Month January February March April May June July August September October November December Year There are numerous Spanish or Mexican words used in the book, but I am no scholar in these tongues.
I just did my best to get them right. Another problem was that the type used to print the book had been damaged in many places, which meant that it was sometimes very hard to decipher.
After much poring there remains only one damaged word in the book, of which I am not certain. This greatly increased the amount of work needed to transcribe the book.
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I suppose this is among the very first "cowboy and Indian" books. If you are interested in this genre, here is the book for you. Irish writer of boys' stories, born in Ballyroney, County Down. In he emigrated to New Orleans, settled as a journalist in Philadelphia , and served in the US army during the Mexican war , where he was severely wounded.
The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
Returning to Britain in , he settled down to a literary life in London. His vigorous style and hairbreadth escapes delighted his readers. The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature mentions that he was the son of a Presbyterian Minister, and that the first two books mentioned above were for a general readership. When he returned to England the publisher Davis Bogue suggested that he should write books specifically for boys, catering for the Christmas market each year.
He was a naturalist, and wrote about the creations of Nature, where many other Victorian authors would have been all moralising and pious. He was a great admirer of Byron, and some of his heroes are Byronic in temperament. We also provide a plain TEXT version and full instructions for using this to make your own audiobook.
These transcriptions of books by various nineteenth century authors of instructive books for teenagers, were made during the period to the present day by Athelstane e-Books. Most of the books are concerned with the sea, but in any case all will give a good idea of life in the nineteenth century.
The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
This of course includes attitudes prevalent at the time, but frowned upon nowadays. We then made a pdf which we used to assist with editing the OCRed text. The last step enables us to hear and correct most of the errors that may have been missed by the other steps, as well as entertaining us during the work of transcription.