In a deep defile among the Black Hills, far out on the western plains, three men had made a camp. They were of that wonderful race who ...

On the morning of the 25th day of April, 18—, the whaleship Montpelier, of New London, anchored in one of the many bays that open along ...

The Rio Grande, the great dividing line between Mexico and the United States, was swelling rapidly into a flood under recent rains, ...

The ungainly female who came roaring into Eldorado in search of the husband who “run away” from her contrived to draw a crowd about her ...

Biff—thump! “Oh, what a soaker!” “Go at him, Rattleton!” “Don’t let him knock you up against the door like that.” Biff! biff!—...

“What was that, Crawling Bear?” “Ugh! Fire-gun make um big ‘boom.’” “It was a fire-gun, all right, but where did the report come from? ...

Buffalo Bill drew rein and looked around. He was on a narrow and lonely trail that ran close by the Cinnabar River. The country was ...

Fate was in a very capricious mood when Buffalo Bill and his pards carried their activities into the Lone Star State. They galloped over ...

A glorious midsummer morning, clear, balmy, and bracing. An ideal stretch of macadam, level as a floor and straight as a die for close ...

The scene was the stage of the Star Theater in Atchison, Kansas, and the occasion of the rehearsal of Frank Merriwell’s company in his ...

It was at Fort Advance, one of the smaller frontier posts on the Indian border, just about the hour of sunset. Buffalo Bill and Colonel ...

Bare-Faced Jimmy, so-called gentleman crook, expert cracksman, and a master criminal in any department of the underworld to which he ...

Manager Thaddeus Burnham, of the Keesport Opera House, was worried. Zolverein, the magician, was billed to play in his house that ...

Nicholas Carter, and his first assistant, Chickering Carter, had risen early that morning, but not for the usual reason. It was a very ...

“Bureau of Secret Investigation.” Nick Carter glanced at the above sign over the door, an unpretentious and somewhat faded reminder of ...

“Stop dot tonkey!” Boom-te-boom-te-boom-boom! The bass drummer of the band at the head of “Haley’s All-Star Combination and Mammoth ...

“Well, fellows, what do you think of Paris?” asked Frank Merriwell, settling himself into a comfortable position on his chair. With his ...

When that wonderful invitation was read by the masculine element and the few women of Blossom Range, it created a sensation, ...

Jim Phillips, industriously making himself a master of certain abstruse problems in mathematics, excited the derision of big Bill Brady, ...

“One thousand dollars for my life.” “You holds it cheap, pard.” “It is all I have with me.” “Guess not, fer men say as how you hes ...