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The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse

Mayne Reid

The book is set shortly after the Mexican War, where Americans are tasked with protecting conquered Mexicans from the Comanche Indians.

"The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse" by Captain Mayne Reid is a historical novel. The book is set shortly after the Mexican War, where Americans are tasked with protecting conquered Mexicans from the Comanche Indians.

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Land of the nopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinché!—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand wax weak, and heart grow old, but never till both are cold can I forget thee! I would not; for thee would I remember. Not for all the world would I bathe my soul in the waters of Lethe. Blessed be memory for thy sake!

Bright land of Anahuac! my spirit mounts upon the aerial wings of Fancy, and once more I stand upon thy shores! Over thy broad savannahs I spur my noble steed, whose joyous neigh tells that he too is inspired by the scene. I rest under the shade of the corozo palm, and quaff the wine of the acrocomia. I climb thy mountains of amygdaloid and porphyry—thy crags of quartz, that yield the white silver and the yellow gold. I cross thy fields of lava, rugged in outline, and yet more rugged with their coverture of strange vegetable forms—acacias and cactus, yuccas and zamias. I traverse thy table-plains through bristling rows of giant aloes, whose sparkling juice cheers me on my path. I stand upon the limits of eternal snow, crushing the Alpine lichen under my heel; while down in the deep barranca, far down below, I behold the feathery fronds of the palm, the wax-like foliage of the orange, the broad shining leaves of the pothos, of arums, and bananas! O that I could again look with living eye on these bright pictures, that even thus palely outlined upon the retina of memory, impart pleasure to my soul!

Contents

  1. 01Souvenirs.
  2. 02Chapter Two.
  3. 03A Mexican frontier village.
  4. 04Chapter Three.
  5. 05The rangers on picket.
  6. 06Chapter Four.
  7. 07Making a captive.
  8. 08Chapter Five.
  9. 09My captive.
  10. 10Chapter Six.
  11. 11Isolina De Vargas.
  12. 12Chapter Seven.
  13. 13An order to forage.
  14. 14Chapter Eight.
  15. 15Don Ramon.
  16. 16Chapter Nine.
  17. 17“Un Papelcito.”
  18. 18Chapter Ten.
  19. 19An old enmity.
  20. 20Chapter Eleven.
  21. 21Rafael Ijurra.
  22. 22Chapter Twelve.
  23. 23The yellow domino.
  24. 24Chapter Thirteen.
  25. 25The blue domino.
  26. 26Chapter Fourteen.
  27. 27Love-thoughts.
  28. 28Chapter Fifteen.
  29. 29An odd epistle.
  30. 30Chapter Sixteen.
  31. 31The Manada.
  32. 32Chapter Seventeen.
  33. 33The hunt of the wild-horse.
  34. 34Chapter Eighteen.
  35. 35The phantom-horse.
  36. 36Chapter Nineteen.
  37. 37A prairie dream.
  38. 38Chapter Twenty.
  39. 39Lost upon the prairie.
  40. 40Chapter Twenty One.
  41. 41A Prairie Repast.
  42. 42Chapter Twenty Two.
  43. 43Chased by a “Grizzly.”
  44. 44Chapter Twenty Three.
  45. 45The Toughest Struggle of my Life.
  46. 46Chapter Twenty Four.
  47. 47Old Comrades.
  48. 48Chapter Twenty Five.
  49. 49A Queer Conversation.
  50. 50Chapter Twenty Six.
  51. 51Vows of Vengeance.
  52. 52Chapter Twenty Seven.
  53. 53Chapter Twenty Eight.
  54. 54Rube roasted alive.
  55. 55Chapter Twenty Nine.
  56. 56The Mesa.
  57. 57Chapter Thirty.
  58. 58Guerrilleros.
  59. 59Chapter Thirty One.
  60. 60The Parley.

About this edition

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

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