
Philip of Texas: A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas
by James Otis
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fiction, Action, Adventure, children, AMERICA, Texas, OhioFOREWORDThe author of this series of stories for children has endeavored simply to show why and how the descendants of the early colonists fought their way through the wilderness in search of new homes. The several narratives deal with the struggles of those adventurous people who forced their way westward, ever westward, whether in hope of gain or in answer to "the call of the wild," and who, in so doing, wrote their names with their blood across this country of ours from the Ohio to the Columbia.To excite in the hearts of the young pe...
Chapters (251)
- Philip of Texas
- A Story of Sheep Raising in Texas BY
- JAMES OTIS
- NEW YORK -:- CINCINNATI -:- CHICAGO AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- PHILIP OF TEXAS. W. P. I.
- FOREWORD
- CONTENTS
- PHILIP OF TEXAS
- MY DREAMS OF A SHEEP RANCH
- SHEEP RAISING
- HERDING SHEEP
- SOMETHING ABOUT TEXAS
- LAND GRANTS
- THE "TEXAS FEVER"
- WHY I WANTED TO GO INTO TEXAS
- HUNTING IN TEXAS
- FATHER GOES TO SPY OUT THE LAND
- OUR PLANTATION IN MISSISSIPPI
- FATHER COMES HOME
- THE BIGNESS OF TEXAS
- WHERE WE WERE GOING
- WHAT I HOPED TO DO
- CATTLE DRIVING
- HOW WE SET OUT
- A LABORIOUS JOURNEY
- COMANCHE INDIANS
- FATHER COMES TO MY RESCUE
- THE ARRIVAL AT FORT TOWSON
- PREPARING FOR A STORM
- A DRY "NORTHER"
- TWO KINDS OF "NORTHERS"
- HOW TURKEYS KILL RATTLESNAKES
- DEER AND RATTLESNAKES
- MAKING A CORRAL OF WAGONS
- ON THE TRAIL ONCE MORE
- MESQUITE
- A TEXAS SHEEP RANCH
- THE PROFITS FROM SHEEP RAISING
- FATHER'S LAND CLAIM
- SPANISH MEASUREMENTS
- THE CHAPARRAL COCK
- OUR FIRST NIGHT ON THE TRINITY
- STANDING GUARD
- A TURKEY BUZZARD
- PLANS FOR BUILDING A HOUSE
- THE COOK SHANTY
- A STORM OF RAIN
- A DAY OF DISCOMFORT
- THINKING OF THE OLD HOME
- WAITING FOR THE SUN
- TOO MUCH WATER
- THE STREAM RISING
- TRYING TO SAVE THE STOCK
- THE ANIMALS STAMPEDED
- SAVING OUR OWN LIVES
- A RAGING TORRENT
- A TIME OF DISASTER
- THE FLOOD SUBSIDING
- A JACK RABBIT
- REPAIRING DAMAGES
- ROUNDING UP THE LIVE STOCK
- THE FIRST MEAL AFTER THE FLOOD
- WAITING FOR FATHER
- RECOVERING OUR GOODS
- SETTING TO WORK IN GOOD EARNEST
- SAWING OUT LUMBER
- LABORING IN THE SAW PIT
- WILD CATTLE
- A DISAGREEABLE INTRUDER
- ODD HUNTING
- A SUPPLY OF FRESH MEAT
- "JERKING" BEEF
- SEARCHING FOR THE CATTLE AGAIN
- OUR NEW HOME
- PLANTING, AND BUILDING CORRALS
- BAR-O RANCH
- AN ODD CART
- THE VISITORS
- ZEBA'S CURIOSITY
- POSSIBLE TREACHERY
- SUSPICIOUS BEHAVIOR
- GYP'S FIGHT WITH A COUGAR
- IN A DANGEROUS POSITION
- HUNTING WILD HOGS
- TREED BY PECCARIES
- GYP'S OBEDIENCE
- MY CARELESSNESS
- VICIOUS LITTLE ANIMALS
- FATHER COMES TO THE RESCUE
- THE INCREASE IN MY FLOCK
- UNREST OF THE INDIANS
- TEXAS JOINS THE UNION
- WAR WITH MEXICO
- SELLING WOOL
- PEACE ON THE TRINITY
- MY DREAM FULFILLED
- BOOKS CONSULTED IN WRITING PHILIP OF TEXAS
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- AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
- HISTORICAL READERS By H. A. GUERBER
- AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY
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