Classic Collection 600: 283 books

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Published in 1913, O Pioneers! is the first novel in Cather’s Great Plains trilogy and follows the life of its young heroine, Alexandra Bergson, as she fulfills her father’s dying wish to...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: From Denver to Spokane, from El Paso to Fort Benton, men talk of Casey Ryan and smile when they speak his name. Old men with the flat tone of coming senility in their voices will suck at their pipes...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Lookout Man begins: From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in with the heavy impetus of high tide, flinging long streamers of kelp and bits of driftwood over the narrowing...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Since Life is no more than a series of achievements and failures, this story is going to begin exactly where the teller of tales usually stops. It is going to begin with Johnny Jewel an accepted lover...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Johnny Jewel, a cowboy who becomes an aviator, is the hero of this new story of Western ranch life. It's an engrossing ranch story with a new note of interest woven into its breezy texture.The novel...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Old Applehead Furrman, jogging home across the mesa from Albuquerque, sniffed the soft breeze that came from opal-tinted distances and felt poignantly that spring was indeed here. The grass, thick and...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A vigorous Western story, sparkling with the free, outdoor, life of a mountain ranch. Its scenes shift rapidly and its actors play the game of life fearlessly and like men. It is a fine love story from...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Ford lifted his arms above his head to yawn as does a man who has slept too heavily, found his biceps stiffened and sore, and massaged them gingerly with his finger-tips. His eyes took on the vacancy...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Valeria had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, expecting a future full of companionship and bracing freedom, lodges with great fireplaces and bearskin rugs, manageable cattle and sleek horses,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: In hot mid afternoon when the acrid, gray dust-cloud kicked up by the listless plodding of eight thousand cloven hoofs formed the only blot on the hard blue above the Staked Plains, an ox stumbled and...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: 1915. With frontispiece by Douglas Duer. Bower authored several Westerns including Cabin Fever and The Flying U Ranch. This book begins: Without going into a deep, psychological discussion of the elements...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Luck Lindsay had convoyed his thirty-five actor-Indians to their reservation at Pine Ridge, and had turned them over to the agent in good condition and a fine humor and nice new hair hatbands and other...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: A man is very much like a horse. Once thoroughly frightened by something he meets on the road he will invariably shy at the same place afterwards until a wisely firm master leads him perforce to the...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: Progress is like the insidious change from youth to old age, except that progress does not mean decay. The change that is almost imperceptible and yet inexorable is much the same, however. You will see...