The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound (Illustrated)

by Harold Bindloss

Overview

The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound: At the age of sixteen Frank Whitney is forced by circumstances to earn his own living His distasteful position with a Minneapolis milling company comes to an untimely end, he feels the call of the wild. Frank finds work on a ranch near Puget Sound. He and the rancher's son hit it off together at once, and spend their time working hard and playing hard. But then, a mysterious schooner appears off the coast, and the rancher's team is stolen. As a result, the boys become detectives. They discover a gang of Chinese opium smugglers, and become involved in actual warfare with them. The boys may triumph in the end, but it will not be easy!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160804330
Publisher:	New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1910
Publication date:	05/08/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Harold Edward Bindloss (6 April 1866 – 30 December 1945) was an English novelist who wrote many adventure novels set mostly in western Canada, with some in West Africa and England. His writing was strongly based on his own experience, whether as a seaman, a dock worker, a farmer or a planter.

Bindloss’ first novel was Ainslie's Ju-Ju, set in West Africa which Truth described as "a book that has the double interest and excitement of a story and of a genuine record of travel and adventure mixed together judiciously." This was the first of nearly one hundred novels by Bindloss. The next, A Sower of Wheat, was set in Canada. This set the pattern for Bindloss, as most of his novels were set in Canada or West Africa. The Guardian refers to him as having two strings to his bow, stories set in Canada or West Africa, with the Canadian stories being remarkably superior (Wikipedia).