OUTING PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK 



OUTING 

 ADVENTURE 

 LIBRARY 



Edited by Horace Kephart 



Here are brought together for 

 the first time the great stories of 

 adventure of all ages and countries. 

 These are the personal records of 

 the men who climbed the mountains, penetrated the 

 jungles, explored the seas and crossed the desert; who 

 knew the chances and took them, and lived to write 

 their own tales of hardship, endurance and achievement. 

 The series will consist of an indeterminate number of 

 volumes for the stories are myriad. The whole will be 

 edited by Horace Kephart. Each volume answers the 

 test of these questions: Is it true? Is it interesting? 

 The entire series is uniform in style and binding. 

 Among the titles now ready or in preparation are those 

 described on the following pages. Price $1.00 each, 

 net. Postage 10 cents extra. 



IN THE OLD WEST, by George Frederick 

 Ruxton. The men who blazed the trail across the 

 Rockies to the Pacific were independent trappers and 

 hunters in the days before the Mexican war. They 

 left no records of their adventures and most of them 

 linger now only as shadowy names. But a young Eng- 

 lishman lived among them for a time, saw life from 

 their point of view, trapped with them and fought with 

 them against the Indians. That was George Frederick 

 Ruxton. His story is our only complete picture of the 

 Old West in the days of the real pioneers, of Kit 

 Carson, Jim Bridger, Bill Williams, the Sublettes, and 

 all the rest of that glorious company of the forgotten 

 who opened the West. 



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