The Keepers of the Trail
The Keepers of the Trail

Author: Joseph A. Altsheler

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2020-04-13

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 3846048569

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1917.

The Keepers of the Trail (Esprios Classics)
The Keepers of the Trail (Esprios Classics)

Author: Joseph A. Altsheler

Publisher:

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Joseph Alexander Altsheler (April 29, 1862 - June 5, 1919) was an American newspaper reporter, editor and author of popular juvenile historical fiction. He was a prolific writer, and produced fifty novels and at least fifty-three short stories. Altsheler was born in Three Springs, Hart County, Kentucky, to Joseph and Louise (née Snoddy) Altsheler. He attended Liberty College in Glasgow, Kentucky, before entering Vanderbilt University. In 1885, he took a job at the Louisville Courier-Journal as a reporter and later worked as an editor. He started working for the New York World in 1892, first as the paper's Hawaiian correspondent and then as the editor of the World's tri-weekly magazine. Due to a lack of suitable stories, he began writing children's stories for the magazine.

The Keepers of the Trail
The Keepers of the Trail

Author: Joseph A. Altsheler

Publisher: VM eBooks

Published: 2016-06-29

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13:

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A light wind blew over the great, primeval wilderness of Kentucky, the dense, green foliage rippling under it like the waves of the sea. In every direction forest and canebrake stretched in countless miles, the trees, infinite in variety, and great in size, showing that Nature had worked here with the hand of a master. Little streams flashing in silver or gold in the sunlight, flowed down to the greater rivers, and on a bush a scarlet tanager fluttered like a flash of flame.