Lil' Shelf

The Swiss Family Robinson · Johann David Wyss

STORIES OF THE GREAT WEST

The Last of the Plainsmen

"He'd rope the devil and tie him down--if the lasso didn't burn," it was said of "Buffalo Jones," one of the last of the famous plainsmen who trod the trails of the old West. Killing was repulsive to him and the passion of his life was to capture wild beasts alive.

A real hunting trip--with constant danger threatening from wild beasts, Indians and the hazards of wild country untouched by civilization.

Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon

A true story of Zane Grey's experiences capturing lions alive, which makes ordinary hunting with guns seem, in contrast about as exciting as a Sunday-school picnic. The account of how they captured six of the tawny, fiery-eyed demons which infest the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and got them into camp alive and growling, will enthrall the great host of Zane Grey's boy readers.

The Last of the Great Scouts

_The life story of "Buffalo Bill" by_ HELEN CODY WETMORE _With Foreword and Conclusion by Zane Grey._

"Buffalo Bill"--scout, pathfinder, hunter and Indian fighter is the most famous of all that great company of frontiersmen who opened up the West for civilization. Indeed no character in history makes a stronger appeal to the imagination than this daring hero of the old west.

GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, NEW YORK

_The_ AIR COMBAT STORIES _for_ BOYS By THOMSON BURTIS

_Author of_ THE REX LEE STORIES

Zooming into the war scene comes this new hero of the air, Lieutenant Rudford Riley, who leads The Phantom Five, a group of airmen detailed for special duty in the Royal Flying Corps during the early days of the war when every take-off was an impudent challenge to death. The record of their mad exploits over the front makes breathless reading, and their adventures have the ring of truth in them for the author-flyer takes them from his own rich experience as a war-time aviator.

DAREDEVILS OF THE AIR

Recounts Lieutenant Riley's adventures as leader of The Phantom Five against the enemy in the air.

FOUR ACES

As commanding officer of Special Flight A, Rud Riley and Jerry Lacey, the Manhattan Madman, are thrown into the thickest and hottest of the air fighting.

WING FOR WING

Continues the record of the daredevil young airman's adventures as one of the leading aces in the war.

FLYING BLACK BIRDS

Stormy Lake leads a squadron of picked daredevils called the Black Birds against the famous German Red Devils led by Von Baer.

GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

Transcriber's Note.

A few typographical and spelling errors have been corrected.

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