item: #1 of 16 id: 14881 author: Butterworth, Hezekiah title: The Log School-House on the Columbia date: None words: 46789 flesch: 86 summary: He accepted the latter for his work's sake, and returned to his old friends a loving letter and an old poem, and with the latter we will leave this picture of old times on the Oregon: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound; Content to breathe his native air On his own ground. The North Puyallup Glacier, Mount Tacoma In the midst of this interview Mrs. Woods appeared at the door of the cabin A. E. Pope The eagle soared away in the blue heavens, and the flag streamed after him in his talons E.J. keywords: air; away; bear; benjamin; boston; boy; chief; columbia; day; eagle; face; father; good; gretchen; heart; home; house; indian; life; mann; master; mother; mrs; music; new; night; oregon; people; river; saw; school; spirit; sun; time; umatilla; whitman; woods; work; world; young cache: 14881.txt plain text: 14881.txt item: #2 of 16 id: 21699 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: The Rover of the Andes: A Tale of Adventure on South America date: None words: 96339 flesch: 78 summary: It was a tremendous blow to poor Lawrence, coming as he did fresh from college in a peaceful land, and full of the reminiscences of childhood. But poor Lawrence was incapable of enjoying the beauties of nature just then. keywords: armstrong; away; colonel; course; dat; day; dey; doubt; eyes; face; father; fellow; fire; friend; girl; good; guide; hand; head; hero; hope; horse; hut; indian; know; lawrence; left; life; little; look; looking; manuela; massa; men; mind; moment; mountains; negro; pampas; party; pedro; people; place; point; poor; quashy; right; river; round; saw; senhor; smile; spanish; surprise; thought; tiger; time; way; white; wild; youth cache: 21699.txt plain text: 21699.txt item: #3 of 16 id: 21720 author: Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael) title: Charlie to the Rescue date: None words: 99702 flesch: 81 summary: Come, now, Shank, old man, you mustn't give way like that. So it is, old man, said Charlie, and I would be the last to engage in such a thing, but this is not a prize-fight, for there's no prize. keywords: ben; boy; brooke; buck; captain; cave; charlie; charlie brooke; course; crossley; crux; darvall; day; dick; door; eyes; face; fellow; fire; friend; god; good; hand; head; hero; horse; hunky; jackson; jake; know; leather; left; life; look; man; mary; men; mind; moment; mother; mrs; place; poor; ranch; right; round; scout; sea; shank; sir; stride; thought; time; tom; voice; way; young cache: 21720.txt plain text: 21720.txt item: #4 of 16 id: 21842 author: Webster, Frank V. title: The Boy Scouts of Lenox; Or, The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain date: None words: 47740 flesch: 83 summary: He had the making of a good scout only for those faults which other boys derided as silly and girlish. At any rate the new Wolf Patrol numbered five, and other boys were showing a disposition to make application for membership. keywords: bear; billy; boys; camp; carl; chance; culpepper; day; dock; felix; find; george; good; home; josh; leader; look; man; master; mother; mountain; paper; patrol; right; scout; things; time; tom; want; way; witherspoon cache: 21842.txt plain text: 21842.txt item: #5 of 16 id: 22566 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz date: None words: 43125 flesch: 87 summary: See here, my good steed, broke in the Wizard, little Dorothy and I have been in many queer countries in our travels, and always escaped without harm. So I will do as you say, friend Wizard. keywords: air; boy; buggy; dorothy; earth; eureka; eyes; girl; good; horse; illustration; jim; kitten; land; man; ozma; people; piglets; princess; room; sorcerer; time; voice; way; wizard; zeb cache: 22566.txt plain text: 22566.txt item: #6 of 16 id: 35649 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Lost Mountain: A Tale of Sonora date: None words: 49045 flesch: 79 summary: Shouldering the horse gear with other _impedimenta_, he looks round to get his bearings, and, soon as satisfied about these, starts off over the plain in search of Crusader. And on the following morning at earliest dawn the two--Pedro Vicente along with them--take their stand on an outward projection of the _mesa_, which commands a view of the _llano_ all round its southern side, at the same time overlooking the Coyotero camp. keywords: animals; camp; cerro; chapter; colonel; come; coyoteros; crusader; day; don; estevan; eyes; fear; gambusino; ground; half; head; henry; hope; horse; indians; lake; line; making; man; men; miners; mountain; night; party; pedro; place; plain; savages; think; thought; time; tresillian; vicente; wagons; water; way cache: 35649.txt plain text: 35649.txt item: #7 of 16 id: 36746 author: Steel, W. G. (William Gladstone) title: The Mountains of Oregon date: None words: 24969 flesch: 76 summary: See pages 55, 57 and 59. ROCKY MOUNTAINS.--Named by the Verendrye brothers (1742). Gray subsequently entered the river and named it Point Adams.--(Life on Puget Sound,--Leighton, page 48. keywords: alpine; article; bay; cape; capt; club; crater; day; department; feet; great; indians; lake; man; members; miles; mountain; o'clock; oregon; page; point; portland; president; puget; river; rock; snow; sound; states; summit; tacoma; time; vancouver; vol; water; way; west; white cache: 36746.txt plain text: 36746.txt item: #8 of 16 id: 37502 author: Hart, Henry Chichester title: Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. 2 - Wales and Ireland date: None words: 47251 flesch: 77 summary: Then good rock follows, and bearing towards the right we come in sight of a square-walled chimney overlooking the main gully, marked by small cairns at top and bottom. From this we emerge on to the open face of the mountain, and a few feet of good rock bring us to the main ridge. keywords: ascent; cliffs; climbed; climbing; cwm; east; face; foot; good; great; gully; half; hand; head; high; hours; illustration; lake; left; llanberis; llyn; long; lough; miles; mountain; north; pass; place; point; ridge; right; road; rock; route; sea; snowdon; south; summit; wales; wall; way; west; western; years cache: 37502.txt plain text: 37502.txt item: #9 of 16 id: 37993 author: Haskett Smith, W. P. (Walter Parry) title: Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England date: None words: 42156 flesch: 78 summary: When approached from the head of the lake it appears as two huge rocky steps; but, as in the case of _Eagle Crag_ in _Greenup_, the steps are not really in the same plane. [Illustration: THE ARROWHEAD (South side of Great Gable)] =Ash Crag=, a rock in _Ennerdale_, near the _Black Sail_ end of the _Pillar Fell_. keywords: ascent; chimney; climb; climbing; crag; cumberland; deep; east; end; england; ennerdale; face; fine; foot; gable; gill; great; gully; hand; head; high; hill; left; little; long; man; mountain; north; pillar; place; point; rake; ridge; right; rock; scafell; snow; south; steep; time; valley; wastdale; way; west; word cache: 37993.txt plain text: 37993.txt item: #10 of 16 id: 38296 author: Stables, Gordon title: Wild Adventures round the Pole Or, The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" date: None words: 103609 flesch: 85 summary: Said Silas one morning to McBain, as they stood together leaning on the bulwarks. She'll have more of it; won't she, matie mine? The mate laughed and commenced to sing-- `Won't you walk into my parlour?' Said the spider to the fly? She's evidently a whaler, crow's-nest and all, he said. keywords: air; allan; arrandoon; bear; bit; board; boat; boy; boys; captain; cockie; come; day; days; dear; deck; doctor; eyes; face; freezing; gentlemen; good; green; grig; half; hands; head; heroes; home; hour; ice; kind; know; life; like; look; magnus; man; mate; mcbain; men; moment; night; north; peter; poor; powders; ralph; rory; round; sandy; sea; seals; seth; ship; silas; sir; snow; stevenson; time; vessel; water; way; wild; wind; work; world; yonder cache: 38296.txt plain text: 38296.txt item: #11 of 16 id: 39094 author: Webster, Frank V. title: Two Boy Gold Miners; Or, Lost in the Mountains date: None words: 44739 flesch: 95 summary: yelled Jed, capering about. yelled Jed. keywords: boys; brother; camp; crosby; day; farm; gabe; gold; good; harrison; horse; jed; look; man; men; miner; money; place; rain; right; time; trail; way; work cache: 39094.txt plain text: 39094.txt item: #12 of 16 id: 40177 author: Speed, Nell title: The Carter Girls date: None words: 59214 flesch: 89 summary: Miss Helen Carter is suffering from an injury to her ankle. What is it? This is me, Lewis, Helen Carter! keywords: bill; bobby; camp; carter; come; course; cousin; day; doctor; douglas; eyes; father; girls; going; good; gwen; helen; help; house; josephus; josh; kind; know; lewis; lizzie; look; lucy; man; miss; money; mother; mountain; new; room; somerville; susan; tell; thing; thought; time; uns; way; week; work; wright cache: 40177.txt plain text: 40177.txt item: #13 of 16 id: 40179 author: Speed, Nell title: The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp date: None words: 55558 flesch: 89 summary: Miss Helen Carter from Dr. George Wright RICHMOND, VA., SEPTEMBER .., 19.. CHAPTER II THE RETURN Oh, Douglas, I'm all of a tremble! declared Helen Carter, as she knotted her jaunty scarlet tie and settled her gray felt hat at exactly the proper angle. keywords: bobby; camp; carter; course; day; douglas; father; frank; girls; good; helen; kind; let; lewis; lil; look; lucy; man; miss; money; mother; mountain; mrs; new; page; skeeter; spring; susan; things; thought; time; tit; tom; tucker; uns; want; way; week; wright cache: 40179.txt plain text: 40179.txt item: #14 of 16 id: 420 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz date: None words: 42881 flesch: 87 summary: See here, my good steed, broke in the Wizard, little Dorothy and I have been in many queer countries in our travels, and always escaped without harm. Said he: This child, who is from the crust of the earth, like yourself, called you a Wizard. keywords: air; boy; buggy; dorothy; earth; eureka; eyes; friends; girl; good; horse; jim; kitten; land; man; ozma; people; piglets; princess; room; time; voice; way; wizard; zeb cache: 420.txt plain text: 420.txt item: #15 of 16 id: 43826 author: Hutchinson, H. N. (Henry Neville) title: The Story of the Hills: A Book About Mountains for General Readers. date: None words: 72224 flesch: 69 summary: When the geologist finds, as he frequently does, buried in mountain rocks the fossil remains of creatures that must have lived in the sea (and often very similar to those living there now), he is compelled to think of the gigantic upheavals that must have taken place before those remains could arrive at their present elevated position. Devonian rocks, 324. Diablerets, fall of rock from, 98. Dislocations of mountain rocks, 313, 315. Dust, volcanic, 245, 260. keywords: action; air; alpine; alps; away; case; cold; course; day; denudation; earth; feet; form; granite; great; ground; heat; height; hills; ice; kind; land; lava; level; life; light; miles; mountains; mud; nature; parts; place; plains; plants; present; rain; ranges; region; rivers; rocks; sea; snow; stones; strata; streams; surface; time; upheaval; valleys; volcanic; volcanoes; water; way; work; world; year cache: 43826.txt plain text: 43826.txt item: #16 of 16 id: 44445 author: Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe) title: Bessie among the Mountains date: None words: 61378 flesch: 85 summary: It was the first prayer that ever passed Dolly's lips; she did not even know it was a prayer; she only knew she was speaking to Jesus, the great friend of whom little Bessie and this kind lady had told her. She said little children might be like the brooks and springs. keywords: aunt; bessie; boy; bradford; care; children; day; dolly; fred; good; hand; home; house; john; lem; maggie; mamma; mrs; old; place; poor; porter; stanton; tell; thing; thought; time; uncle; way cache: 44445.txt plain text: 44445.txt