Reading Bear Publications: 82 books

The Friendship Village series best exemplifies Zona Gale's lighter touch with village life. While her Midwestern stories convey an awareness of the foibles of small-town life, they are more celebratory of the sometimes primitive democratic and community-oriented values of small-town life. Always delightful...

A Fool in Love is the story of an exciting duel between a railway monarch who is celebrated as a hard fighter, and a young civil engineer, over a strip of track that means the right of way for two competing lines, forms the theme of this novel. The love comes into the story by means of a pretty girl,...

"Firebrand" Trevison is about a ranch owner who runs afoul of a land grabber, both of whom are in love with the same girl, the daughter of a railroad owner. Something's got to give! Charles Alden Seltzer (15 August 1875–9 February 1942) was an American writer. He was a prolific...

The Rainbow Trail is Zane Grey's sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage. Originally published under the title The Rainbow Trail in 1915, it was re-edited and re-released in recent years as The Desert Crucible with the original manuscript that Grey submitted to publishers. The novel takes place...

Riders of the Purple Sage Series consists of two of Zane Grey's finest novels: Riders of the Purple Sage and The Rainbow Trail. Riders of the Purple Sage is a Western novel by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1912. Considered by many critics to have played a significant...

The Border Legion is a 1916 western novel by Zane Grey. It tells the story of a cold-hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. It was made into a movie of the same name in 1924 and again in 1930. The movie "The...

The Last Trail by Zane Grey is a good example of American literature written in the early part of the last century. Traditions and family values play a large part in daily life. This book distinguishes between two types of frontiersmen, the pioneers and the border men. The first being settlers that...

The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book is the complete collection of short stories by the same names. The book has 28 animal stories, notably tales of the 'Coon, the 'Possum, and the Old Black Crow, who live in the Hollow Tree in the Deep Woods. The book contains 113 illustrations, rejuvenated, by J....

This is the first six novels in the Hopalong Cassidy series. 1. "Bar-20" is the story of Hopalong Cassidy before he became the "TV-Cowboy." He was a typical late-19th century cowboy, except he could rope, ride and shoot. In this book, he's nothing like the suave, quiet hero who always saves...

Jack in the Rockies follows Jack Danvers and his guide, philosopher, and friend, Hugh Johnson, the old frontiersman from Bismarck, Dakota, where they board the up-river steamboat for Fort Bruton. They take a pack-train from the famous old fort, the lore of the hunter and the pioneer vividly revealed...

This is another great collection of Hollow Tree Stories by Albert Paine. The featured story is how Mr. Rabbit lost his long tail, and what he tried to do about it. The other stories are equally cute. They include Mr. Dog plays Santa Claus; Mr. Dog at the circus; When Mr. 'Coon was a Little Boy; and...

Mark the Match Boy is the third volume in Alger's "Ragged Dick Series." Between the first and third volume, Richard Hunter, or "Ragged Dick" as he was known, has found a good job and gained some education. Eventually he and a friend help a boy named Mark, who tried to earn a living...

Rough and Ready is Book #4 in the Ragged Dick series, and another exciting story. Rufus (or "Rough & Ready" as his street name), an entrepreneurial newsboy, escapes with his younger sister from an abusive, drunken step-father, and vows to set up a better life for them even though this...

Gilbert Greyson is rich. He is finishing boarding school, readying himself for college, and his future looks bright. And why not? His father willed him $75,000. Today, 2019, that is $1.8 million! A tidy sum, for certain. But his dishonest guardian swindles Gilbert out of his inheritance and in short...