The Golden Canyon
By G. A. Henty
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The Golden Canyon - G. A. Henty
THE GOLDEN CANYON BY G. A. HENTY
published by Samizdat Express, Orange, CT, USA
established in 1974, offering over 14,000 books
Historical novels by G. A. Henty:
Among the Malay Pirates
At Aboukir and Acre
At Agincourt
At the Point of the Bayonet
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Both Sides of the Border
Boy Knight
Bravest of the Brave, With Peterborough in Spain
By Conduct and Courage
By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands
By Pike and Dyke: a Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic
By Right of Conquest or With Cortez in Mexico
By Sheer Pluck: a Tale of the Ashanti War
Captain Bayley's Heir: a Tale of the Gold Fields of California
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret
Condemned as a Nihilist: a Story of Escape from Siberia
The Cornet of the Horse: a Tale of Marlbough's Wars
Dash for Khartoum: a Tale of the Nile Expedition
The Dragon and the Raven or the Days of King Arthur
A Final Reckoning: a Tale of Bush Life in Australia
For Name and Fame or Through Afghan Passes
For the Temple: a Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem
Forest and Frontiers or Adventures Among the Indians
Friends Though Divided: a Tale of the Civil War
Girl of the Commune
The Golden Canyon
Held Fast for England: a Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar
In Freedom's Cause
In the Heart of the Rockies: a Story of Adventure in Colorado
In the Irish Brigade: a Tale of War in Flanders and Spain
In the Reign of Terror: the Adventures of a Westminster Boy
In Times of Peril: a Tale of India
Jack Archer: a Tale of the Crimea
Jacobite Exile: Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service to King Charles XII of Sweden
The Knight of the White Cross
The Lion of St. Mark: a Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century
The Lion of the North: a Tale of the Times of Gustavus Adolphus
A March on London: Being a story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection
No Surrender! a Tale of the Rising in Vendee
On the Irrawaddy: a Story of the First Burmese War
On the Pampas or the Young Settlers
One of the 28th: a Tale of Waterloo
The Orange and the Green: a Tale of Boyne and Limerick
The Queen's Cup
Rujub the Juggler
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: a Tale of the Huguenot Wars
Saint George for England
Tales of Daring and Danger
Through the Fray: a Tale of the Luddite Riots
Through Three Campaigns: a Story of Chitral, Tirah and Ashanti
The Tiger of Mysore: a Story of the War with Tippoo Saib
The Treasure of the Incas: a Story of Adventure in Peru
True to the Old Flag: a Tale of the American War of Independence
Under Drake's Flag: a Tale of the Spanish Main
Under Wellington's Command: a Tale of the Peninsular War
When London Burned
Winning His Spurs
With Buller in Natal or a Born Leader
With Clive in India or the Beginnings of an Empire
With Frederick the Great: a Story of the Seven Years' War
With Kitchener in the Soudan: a Story of Atbara and Omdurman
With Lee in Virginia: a Story of the Amerian Civil War
With Moore at Corunna
With Wolfe in Canada or the Winning of a Continent
Won by the Sword: a Story of the Thiry Years' War
Wulf the Saxon: a Story of the Norman Conquest
Young Buglers
The Young Carthaginian: a Story of the Times of Hannibal
The Young Franc Tireurs and Their Advenures in the Franco-Prussian War
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First published:
New York
Hurst & Company Publishers.
1899
Publisher’s Introduction
I. A Run Ashore
II. Dick's Escape
III. The Gold-Seekers
IV. More Plans
V. The Search For The Canyon
VI. The Map Again
VII. The Scarcity Of Water
VIII. The Golden Valley
IX. The Tree On The Peak
X. Watched
XI. Hard At Work
XII. Retreat
XIII. The Redskin
XIV. In The Ravine
XV. Rifle-Shots
XVI. On The Return
XVII. Conclusion
Publishers' Introduction
George Alfred Henty has been called The Prince of Story-Tellers.
To call him The Boy's Own Historian
would perhaps be a more appropriate title, for time has proved that he is more than a story-teller; he is a preserver and propagator of history amongst boys.
How Mr. Henty has risen to be worthy of these enviable titles is a story which will doubtless possess some amount of interest for all his readers.
Henty may be said to have begun his preliminary training for his life-work when a boy attending school at Westminster. Even then the germ of his story-telling propensity seems to have evinced itself, for he was always awarded the highest marks in English composition.
From Westminster he went to Cambridge, where he was enrolled as a student at Caius College. It is a decided change of scenery and circumstances from Cambridge to the Crimea, but such was the change which took place in Mr. Henty's career at the age of twenty-one.
An appointment in connection with the commissariat department of the British army, took him from the scenes of student life into the excitement of the Muscovite war.
Previous to this, however, he had written his first novel, which he has characterized as Very bad, no doubt, and was, of course, never published, but the plot was certainly a good one.
Whilst engaged with his duties at the Crimea he sent home several descriptive letters of the places, people, and circumstances passing under his notice. His father, thinking some of those letters were of more than private interest, took a selection of them to the editor of the Morning Advertiser, who, after perusal of them, was so well pleased with their contents that he at once appointed young Henty as war correspondent to the paper in the Crimea.
The ability with which he discharged his duties in the commissariat department at that time soon found for him another sphere of similar work in connection with the hospital of the Italian forces. After a short time this was relinquished for engagement in mining work, which he first entered into at Wales, and then in Italy.
Ten years after his Crimean correspondence to the Morning Advertiser he again took to writing, and at this time obtained the position of special correspondent to the Standard. While holding this post, he contributed letters and articles on the wars in Italy and Abyssinia, and on the expedition to Khiva. Two novels came from his pen during this time, but his attention was mostly devoted to miscellaneous letters and articles.
It is a specially interesting incident in the career of Mr. Henty how he came to turn his attention to writing for boys. When at home, after dinner, it was his habit to spend an hour or so with