Excerpt from A Tenderfoot With Peary When our gallant little army fought its way across the continent to the Pacific coast, in the days now gone forever, it was regarded as the school Of heroic endeavor for the youth Of our nation. As well it might be, for the highway from east to west now happily spanned by the rails Of commerce and peace was for more than a hundred years a trail Of blood and death. And following back the course Of the pioneers, it takes but a short stretch Of the imagination to carry us to the heroic days Of the fair-haired, blue-eyed Norsemen, who, impelled by the spirit Of adventure, took to their ships after the farming season was over and sailed the seas near and far. Here was bred a sturdy race, seamen and fighters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Tenderfoot Scene: Clearing in Santa Crus Mountains suitable for camp site. Costumes: Boy Scout Uniforms. (Sounds of chopping, talking, laughing, off stage, singing. Jim Fresh enters in ordinary boy's costume.) Jim. (Peering off into distance) Boy Scouts! Good! (Goes forward, then draws back) That Mastadon Patrol! (Frowns) Making a camp, I'll bet a hat! Shall I tell uncle to drive them off? It would serve them right! I was too small for their patrol, was I? I'll lick the whole bunch! (Pause) No, I won't! (Slaps leg) I have a better scheme than that! A girl could raise hob! That patrol leader has Feminitus now! I'll innoculate the rest! Oh, baby! What a lark! (Sounds off stage grow louder) I must get out of this! (Exit) (Enter Jack Pierce, patrol leader, followed by Caruso, Peachy and Willie, all dragging logs.) Jack. (Pausing) Here's the place we chose. It's clear of underbrush, handy to the creek, and shady. What do you fellows think of it ? Caruso. Just the ticket. We can go to sleep listening to the murmur of the brook and the cooing of the wood-ticks! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Trail of a Tenderfoot His nights, Of course, were spent in the silent wilderness, where the dream trees were bigger and the dream forest more likely and gigantic dream deer dashed past, only to fall (in the dream) like collapsing moun tains before the unerring 38 - 55. And in the nights, too, the guides, who had seen tenderfeet come and go, but never such a tenderfoot as this, crowded around the bed to congratulate him in picturesque back woods dialect On getting the biggest deer with the biggest antlers ever seen or heerd Of in these parts - Eight-pronged - by' Jim! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Tenderfoot and Expert Expert said: These diggings in Forty-nine around Grizzly Flat, Yuba Hill and Yuba Darn were far richer, so history says, than the placer diggings in old Mari posa. The old man braced up and said: There was mighty rich spots in old Mariposa, yes there was, yes there was. He warmed up and said in a high key to prove the wonders of Mariposa County. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.