The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness
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Captain Mayne Reid
"The Desert Home"
Chapter One.
The Great American Desert.
Chapter Two.
The White Peak.
Chapter Three.
The Valley Oasis.
Chapter Four.
The Strange Settlement.
Chapter Five.
Rolfe’s Early History.
Chapter Six.
The Virginia Plantation.
Chapter Seven.
The Caravan and its Fate.
Chapter Eight.
The Miner’s Story.
Chapter Nine.
Lost in the Desert.
Chapter Ten.
Adventure with an Armadillo.
Chapter Eleven.
A Very Lean Buffalo.
Chapter Twelve.
The Bighorns.
Chapter Thirteen.
The great Elk.
Chapter Fourteen.
Adventure with the Carcajou.
Chapter Fifteen.
A fruitless Search for a Trail.
Chapter Sixteen.
The Mysterious Flood.
Chapter Seventeen.
The Beavers and Wolverene.
Chapter Eighteen.
How to build a Log-Cabin.
Chapter Nineteen.
The Sagacious Squirrel.
Chapter Twenty.
A House built without a Nail.
Chapter Twenty One.
A Battue of “Black-Tails.”
Chapter Twenty Two.
Catching a Tartar.
Chapter Twenty Three.
The Salt Spring.
Chapter Twenty Four.
The Battle of the Snakes.
Chapter Twenty Five.
The Sugar-Tree.
Chapter Twenty Six.
The Stump-Tree and the Bread-Pine.
Chapter Twenty Seven.
The Snow-Line.
Chapter Twenty Eight.
The Menagerie, Aviary, and Botanic Garden.
Chapter Twenty Nine.
Trapping the Beasts and Birds.
Chapter Thirty.
The Biters Bit.
Chapter Thirty One.
Battle of the Marten and Porcupine.
Chapter Thirty Two.
The cunning old “’Coon.”
Chapter Thirty Three.
Little Mary and the Bee.
Chapter Thirty Four.
A Grand Bee-Hunt.
Chapter Thirty Five.
A Rival Honey-Robber.
Chapter Thirty Six.
The Battle of the Bucks.
Chapter Thirty Seven.
The Pit-Trap.
Chapter Thirty Eight.
The old “’Possum” and her Kittens.
Chapter Thirty Nine.
The Moccason Snake and the Orioles.
Chapter Forty.
The Battle of the Cougar and Peccaries.
Chapter Forty One.
Besieged in a Tree.
Chapter Forty Two.
An Adventure with Dusky Wolves.
Chapter Forty Three.
Taming the Great Elk.
Chapter Forty Four.
Catching the Wild Horses.
The End.
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