A mid-nineteenth-century compiler offers what he calls wholesome alternatives to sensational fiction: short accounts of real dangers met and survived. There are shipwrecks and steamboat explosions, incidents of the Mexican War such as Resaca de la Palma, encounters with wild animals, Indian captivities and escapes, each told in a page or two. Its frontier attitudes are those of its day.
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