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The Desert Home

by Mayne Reid

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  1. 1Chapter One — The Great American Desert
  2. 2Chapter Two — The White Peak
  3. 3Chapter Three — The Valley Oasis
  4. 4Chapter Four — The Strange Settlement
  5. 5Chapter Five — Rolfe’s Early History
  6. 6Chapter Six — The Virginia Plantation
  7. 7Chapter Seven — The Caravan and Its Fate
  8. 8Chapter Eight — The Miner’s Story
  9. 9Chapter Nine — Lost in the Desert
  10. 10Chapter Ten — Adventure With an Armadillo
  11. 11Chapter Eleven — A Very Lean Buffalo
  12. 12Chapter Twelve — The Bighorns
  13. 13Chapter Thirteen — The Great Elk
  14. 14Chapter Fourteen — Adventure With the Carcajou
  15. 15Chapter Fifteen — A Fruitless Search for a Trail
  16. 16Chapter Sixteen — The Mysterious Flood
  17. 17Chapter Seventeen — The Beavers and Wolverene
  18. 18Chapter Eighteen — How to Build a Log-Cabin
  19. 19Chapter Nineteen — The Sagacious Squirrel
  20. 20Chapter Twenty — A House Built Without a Nail
  21. 21Chapter Twenty One — A Battue of “Black-Tails”
  22. 22Chapter Twenty Two — Catching a Tartar
  23. 23Chapter Twenty Three — The Salt Spring
  24. 24Chapter Twenty Four — The Battle of the Snakes
  25. 25Chapter Twenty Five — The Sugar-Tree
  26. 26Chapter Twenty Six — The Stump-Tree and the Bread-Pine
  27. 27Chapter Twenty Seven — The Snow-Line
  28. 28Chapter Twenty Eight — The Menagerie, Aviary, and Botanic Garden
  29. 29Chapter Twenty Nine — Trapping the Beasts and Birds
  30. 30Chapter Thirty — The Biters Bit
  31. 31Chapter Thirty One — Battle of the Marten and Porcupine
  32. 32Chapter Thirty Two — The Cunning Old “’Coon”
  33. 33Chapter Thirty Three — Little Mary and the Bee
  34. 34Chapter Thirty Four — A Grand Bee-Hunt
  35. 35Chapter Thirty Five — A Rival Honey-Robber
  36. 36Chapter Thirty Six — The Battle of the Bucks
  37. 37Chapter Thirty Seven — The Pit-Trap
  38. 38Chapter Thirty Eight — The Old “’Possum” and Her Kittens
  39. 39Chapter Thirty Nine — The Moccason Snake and the Orioles
  40. 40Chapter Forty — The Battle of the Cougar and Peccaries
  41. 41Chapter Forty One — Besieged in a Tree
  42. 42Chapter Forty Two — An Adventure With Dusky Wolves
  43. 43Chapter Forty Three — Taming the Great Elk
  44. 44Chapter Forty Four — Catching the Wild Horses

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