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The Lone Ranche

Mayne Reid

The story is set against the backdrop of the American West, exploring themes of frontier life, conflict with Native Americans, and the code of honor among men.

"The Lone Ranche" by Captain Mayne Reid is a novel. The story is set against the backdrop of the American West, exploring themes of frontier life, conflict with Native Americans, and the code of honor among men.

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Within the city of Chihuahua, metropolis of the northern provinces of Mexico—for the most part built of mud—standing in the midst of vast barren plains, o’ertopped by bold porphyritic mountains—plains with a population sparse as their timber—in the old city of Chihuahua lies the first scene of our story.

Less than twenty thousand people dwell within the walls of this North Mexican metropolis, and in the country surrounding it a like limited number.

Once they were thicker on the soil; but the tomahawk of the Comanche and the spear of the Apache have thinned off the descendants of the Conquistadores, until country houses stand at wide distances apart, with more than an equal number of ruins between.

Contents

  1. 01“Hats Off!”
  2. 02Chapter Two.
  3. 03A Friend in Need.
  4. 04Chapter Three.
  5. 05The Colonel Commandant.
  6. 06Chapter Four.
  7. 07A Pronunciamento.
  8. 08Chapter Five.
  9. 09“Why comes he not?”
  10. 10Chapter Six.
  11. 11Surrounded.
  12. 12Chapter Seven.
  13. 13Fiery Messengers.
  14. 14Chapter Eight.
  15. 15Knife, Pistol, and Hatchet.
  16. 16Chapter Nine.
  17. 17Quarrelling over Scalps.
  18. 18Chapter Ten.
  19. 19A Brave Steed Abandoned.
  20. 20Chapter Eleven.
  21. 21A Descent into Darkness.
  22. 22Chapter Twelve.
  23. 23A Storm of Stones.
  24. 24Chapter Thirteen.
  25. 25Buried Alive.
  26. 26Chapter Fourteen.
  27. 27A Savage Saturnal.
  28. 28Chapter Fifteen.
  29. 29A Living Tomb.
  30. 30Chapter Sixteen.
  31. 31Off at Last!
  32. 32Chapter Seventeen.
  33. 33Into the Desert.
  34. 34Chapter Eighteen.
  35. 35A Lilliputian Forest.
  36. 36Chapter Nineteen.
  37. 37The Departure of the Plunderers.
  38. 38Chapter Twenty.
  39. 39A Transformation.
  40. 40Chapter Twenty One.
  41. 41Struggling among the Sages.
  42. 42Chapter Twenty Two.
  43. 43A Huntress.
  44. 44Chapter Twenty Three.
  45. 45“Down, Dogs!”
  46. 46Chapter Twenty Four.
  47. 47Foes or Friends?
  48. 48Chapter Twenty Five.
  49. 49“Saved by an Angel!”
  50. 50Chapter Twenty Six.
  51. 51Fallen among Friends.
  52. 52Chapter Twenty Seven.
  53. 53The Lone Ranche.
  54. 54Chapter Twenty Eight.
  55. 55A Sweet Awakening.
  56. 56Chapter Twenty Nine.
  57. 57Don Valerian.
  58. 58Chapter Thirty.
  59. 59The Raiders Returning.
  60. 60Chapter Thirty One.

About this edition

Author
Mayne Reid
Language
English
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
512 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers

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