Frank Reade and His Steam Horse

They found counterfeit money to the great amount of five hundred thousand dollars in bills and coins of various large and small denominations! but what rejoiced the hearts of th...

In a little grove, close to the track of the wagons, a small body of mounted men sat motionless, headed by one whose flashing eyes and commanding manner stamped him a born leader.

Six weeks after the incidents narrated in the previous chapter had taken place, our young genius was at work in his favorite shed, trying the strength of his wagon in all parts,...

When Frank Reade left him he gave him one of his prepared rockets, with instructions how to use it, and told the tall guide that he might chance to see it and come to his aid if...

He could just make out two flying bands of mounted horsemen, not a quarter of a mile afront, and as he looked one of the leading band tumbled to the ground.

This person was Barry Brown, one of the men under Harry Hale, and a most cool and skillful secret service detective; as the reader has doubtless surmised, Jack, the tall stablem...

The racket just suited the darkey, for above all things he liked racing and excitement, and certainly this sort of race was exciting enough, for the stake at issue was his own l...

Hidden from view in this little cluster of green trees, but approached by a blazed wagon road and well-worn footpath, was a large house, built in the roughest but most substanti...

When Pomp and Ralph Radcliffe, on the back of the flying steed, rose over the wild buffaloes, the pursuers were rushing at the fighting beasts in a swift charge, their rifles le...

On, swiftly on over the rolling prairie dashed the horse bearing the darkey rider and Ralph Radcliffe, for the plunge into the cold waters of the stream had greatly refreshed th...

When Barry Brown saw that form before him with upraised sword in hand, he felt very much like selling out rather cheaply, although merely from force of defensive habit he pointe...

“Now, gentlemen,” he said, as the shadows of night began to gather around the Steam Horse, “I’m going to show you the way in which I propose to dress when I go driving into that...

After starting away on the tracks of Pomp’s pursuers, all went smooth for some time, and then Charley’s man got out of order in some part, and he was forced to pull up and inves...

Mustang Max is leading a selected body of the hardy emigrants, men picked out for their fighting qualities, and the half smile on the face of the tall guide tells very plainly t...

“Thin moind ye, Mrs. Faylix O’Doolahan, for I’m not to be thrifled wid in this style, I want ye to kape the pigs and childer out o’ me schmoking-room, or, be the bright buckles...

Just where the rolling prairie was barred by a patch of woods, long, narrow and dark, a hardy pioneer had erected a rough but substantial dwelling, which, with the waving grass...

After the battle at the grove, when it was discovered that Pomp was among the missing, in fact the sole party then missed, great was the surprise, and many were the conjectures...

Frank Reade looked up with a pleasant smile, as a brick-colored head was thrust into the half-open doorway of the wood-shed, where he was hard at work putting the several parts...

The little mixed band of pursuers, yelling and swinging their hatchets and rifles, did not discover the near approach of the rescuing steed until it was too late for them to thi...

The reader will remember Pedro, the stable-boy, who was sent by Jack to carry the information to Harry Hale that resulted in the fight with the teamsters and their red and white...

Van Dorn was not a little gratified to find that one of the few unselfish and good acts of his ill-spent life had resulted in saving him from a horrible fate, and placing a body...

Under a spreading old oak tree in the little valley where the matrimonially inclined outlaw had built his little shanty, could be seen a motley gathering, drawn together for the...

He was a regular Spaniard when it came to throwing a knife, and this time, although the cast was made while he was going at full speed, his aim was as true as the pliant steel o...

In order to properly connect the various parts of our story in proper places, we are forced to turn backward to the night first preceding the day on which occurred the events na...

The reader will remember the mysterious delay on the part of Ralph Radcliffe in reaching the grove, after he leaped from the back of the horse, so as to give the darkey full cha...

With their menacing yells ringing out in a loud chorus, the Indians under Van Dorn and the half-breed and the two sub-leaders they had appointed, swept down upon the devoted band.

When Frank Reade fell from his seat to the ground, stricken by the bullets fired at him by the enemy, he lay perfectly motionless upon the hard plain, and any one would have sup...

They knew that Sinyaro would carry out his horrible threat, for since his first appearance in the neighborhood, some three years previously, he had committed over a hundred bold...

When the Steam Man went smashing up against the door of the counterfeiters’ head-quarters, the shock caused by the sudden recoil was so great that Charley Gorse flew one way and...

“High golly!” muttered the darkey, “if dat ar chap am comin’ fo’ information, dis chile guess he won’t carry de news to Mary. Not much. Guess I kin a’most jump down his froat.”

“But that he would not do,” said Frank. “He isn’t that sort of a sardine. It is impossible to find out anything now, so we must be content to wait for daylight to tell us someth...

“I was wrong,” he said, “I did not know that the hand of the Great Spirit had been laid upon him. I would not now harm a hair of his head. You have done well, my braves.”

In an instant the scene was changed; the dancing ceased; people scattered right and left; shouts shrieks and yells were heard from red and white, and the high old wedding festiv...

Drawing his revolvers from his belt, the leader of the robber band shot down one of his own men who had turned his horse with the intention of running from the terrifying monsters.