Thrilling Adventures by Land and Sea
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Chapters (92)
- THRILLING ADVENTURES
- LAND AND SEA
- BEING
- REMARKABLE HISTORICAL FACTS, GATHERED FROM AUTHENTIC SOURCES.
- EDITED BY
- JAMES O. BRAYMAN.
- PREFACE.
- CONTENTS.
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- THRILLING ADVENTURES BY LAND AND SEA.
- INCIDENT AT RESACA DE LA PALMA.
- TRUE HEROISM.
- A THRILLING INCIDENT.
- AN INCIDENT
- IN THE WAR OF MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE.
- A SKETCH
- FROM "LIFE ON THE OCEAN."
- ESCAPE FROM SHIPWRECK.
- FROM "LIFE ON THE OCEAN."
- THE HUNTER'S WIFE.
- DEAF SMITH,
- THE CELEBRATED TEXAN SPY.
- ESCAPE FROM A SHARK.
- ADVENTURE WITH PIRATES.
- FROM "FORTUNE'S ADVENTURES IN CHINA."
- A SEA FOWLING ADVENTURE.
- ADVENTURE WITH A COBRA DI CAPELLO
- COMBAT OF WILD ANIMALS.
- PERILOUS INCIDENT
- ON A CANADIAN RIVER.
- A WHALE CHASE.
- LEOPARD HUNTING.
- AND ADVENTURES WITH BUFFALOES AND LIONS.
- HUNTING THE WHITE RHINOCEROS,
- LION, BUFFALO, AND GIRAFFE.
- A LEOPARD HUNT.
- LIFE IN CALIFORNIA.
- A STORM AMONG THE ICEBERGS.
- FALL OF THE ROSSBERG.
- THE RIFLEMAN OF CHIPPEWA.
- SHIPWRECK OF THE BLENDENHALL.
- ADVENTURES OF SERGEANT CHAMPE
- IN HIS ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE ARNOLD.
- ADVENTURE WITH PIRATES.
- KENTON THE SPY.
- THE DYING VOLUNTEER,
- AN INCIDENT OF MOLINO DEL REY.
- ESCAPE FROM A MEXICAN QUICKSAND
- CHASED BY A RHINOCEROS.
- BURNING OF THE ERIE.
- CONFLICT WITH AN INDIAN.
- FIRE ON THE PRAIRIES.
- THE CAPTAIN'S STORY.
- A TUSSLE WITH A WILDCAT.
- AN INCIDENT IN FRONTIER LIFE
- FEMALE INTREPIDITY.
- FEARFUL ENCOUNTER WITH ROBBERS.
- SHIPWRECK OF THE MONTICELLO.
- A JUNGLE RECOLLECTION.
- ATTACK OF BOONSBOROUGH.
- THRILLING INCIDENTS OF BATTLE.
- A FAMILY ATTACKED BY INDIANS.
- THRILLING INCIDENT.
- ADVENTURES
- OF REV. DR. BACON AND HIS PARTY, AMONG THE MOUNTAINS OF PERSIA.
- A BATTLE WITH SNAKES.
- ESTILL'S DEFEAT.
- INCIDENT AT NIAGARA FALLS.
- A SKATER CHASED BY A WOLF.
- OUR FLAG ON THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS
- RUNNING THE CANON.
- THE RESCUE.
- SHIPWRECK OF THE MEDUSA.
- HUNTING THE MOOSE.
- PERILOUS ESCAPE FROM DEATH.
- FIRE IN THE FOREST.
- PIRATES OF THE RED SEA.
- GEN. JACKSON AND WEATHERFORD.
- CRUISE OF THE SALDANHA AND TALBOT.
- A CARIB'S REVENGE.
- MASSACRE OF FORT MIMMS.
- THE FRESHET.
- THE PANTHER'S DEN.
- ADVENTURE WITH ELEPHANTS.
- THE SHARK SENTINEL.
- HUNTING THE TIGER.
- INDIAN DEVIL.
- BEAR FIGHT.
- THE MINERS OF BOIS-MONZIL.
- SHIP TOWED TO LAND BY BULLOCKS.
- DESTRUCTION OF A SHIP BY A WHALE.
- BURNING OF THE KENT.
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