THE BOY SCOUTS BOOK OF CAMPFIRE STORIES (by Mark Twain, Zane Grey, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Others)

by Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, O. Henry, Robert Louis Stevenson, Franklin K. Mathiews (Editor)

Overview

A collection of short stories written for boys and edited and compiled by Franklin K. Mathiews, who was Chief Scout Librarian for the Boy Scouts of America. The Stories and authors included are:
I. THE GREAT BIG MAN Owen Johnson
II. A TWILIGHT ADVENTURE Melville Davisson Post
III. TAD SHELDON, SECOND CLASS SCOUT John Fleming Wilson
IV. THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE Arthur Conan Doyle
V. THE RANSOM OF RED CHIEF O. Henry
VI. THE HONK-HONK BREED Stewart Edward White
VII. THE DEVIL-FISH Norman Duncan
VIII. THE JUMPING FROG Mark Twain
IX. BINGISM Booth Tarkington
X. CONCHO CURLY AT THE OP'RA Edward Beecher Bronson
XI. THE LIE Hermann Hagedorn
XII. STORY OF THE BANDBOX Robert Louis Stevenson
XIII. THE HERO AND THE COWBOY Joseph C. Lincoln
XIV. THE DOLLAR Morgan Robertson
XV. THE MASCOT OF "TROOP 1" Stephen Chalmers
XVI. THE LION'S SMILE Thomas W. Hanshew
XVII. THE ROLL-CALL OF THE REEF A. T. Quiller-Couch
XVIII. THE HOUSE AND THE BRAIN Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Product Details

BN ID:	2940013648012
Publisher:	Ryetown Classics
Publication date:	08/04/2011
Series:	Boy Scouts , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	296 KB

About the Author

There are so many authors, a description of each would be a waste of space. And with many of the authors, a description is completely unnecessary.

Date of Birth:

November 30, 1835

Date of Death:

April 21, 1910

Place of Birth:

Florida, Missouri

Place of Death:

Redding, Connecticut