The Story of the West Series. 



Edited by RIPLEY HITCHCOCK. 



Each, illuslraled, 12mo, clolh, $1.50, 



The Story of the Dailroad. 



Bv Cy Warman, author of ''The Express Messenger," 

 etc. With Maps and many Illustrations by B. West 

 Clinedinst and from photographs. 



" As we understand it, the editor's ruling idea in this series has not 

 been to present chronology or statistics or set essays on the social and 

 political development of the great West, but to give to us vivid 

 pictures of the life and the times in the period of great development, 

 and to let us see the men at their work, their characters, and their 

 motives. The choice of an author has been fortunate. In Mr. War- 

 man's book we are kept constantly reminded of the fortitude, the suftering, the enterprise, 

 and the endurance of the pioneers. We see the glowing imagination of the promoter, and we 

 see the engineer scouting the plains and the mountains, fighting the Indians, freezing and 

 starving, and always full of a keen enthusiasm for his work and of noble devotion to his duty. 

 The construction train and the Irish boss are not forgotten, and in the stories of their doings 

 we find not only courage and adventure, but wit and humor." — The Railroad Gazette. 



The Story of the Cowboy. 



Bv E. HoLGH. author of "The Singing Mouse Sto- 

 ries," etc. illustrated by William L.Wells and C. 

 M. Rl'ssell. 



" Mr. Hough is to be thanked for having written so excellent a 

 book. The cowboy story, as this author has told it, will be the 

 cowboy's fitting eulogy. This volume will be consulted in years to 

 come as an autliority on past conditions of the far West. For fine 

 literary work the author is to be highly complimented. Here, 

 certainly, we have a choice piece of writing." — New York Times. 



The Story of the Mine. 



As illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode of 

 Nevada. By Charles Howard Shinn. 



" The author has written a book not alone full of informa- 

 tion, but replete with the true romance of the American mine." 

 — New York Tunes. 



" Mr. Shinn's volume is a fairly complete picture of the min- 

 ing industries of the Pacific States, and should be read by every 

 one who desires an accurate idea of this phase of Western his- 

 tory." — Brooklyn Eagle. 



The Story of the Indian. 



By George Bird Grinnell, author of "Pawnee 

 Hero Stories," " Blackfoot Lodge Tales," etc. 



" Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer 

 us a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the 

 Indian in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long association 

 with Indians can enable a white man measurably to comprehend 

 their thoughts and enter into their feelings. Such association has 

 been Mr. Grinnell's."— A^r^> York Sun. 



" It must not be supposed that the volume is one for scholars 

 and libraries of reference. It is far more than that. While it is a 

 true story, yet it is a story none the less abounding in picturesque 

 description and charming anecdote. We regard it as a valuable 

 contribution to American literature." — New York Mai! and 

 Express. 



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