The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Mayne Reid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330335147 ISBN 13: 9781330335147

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas

The sound, significant to the ear Of the stag, causes a quick change in his air and attitude. Springing clear of his couch, and bounding a score Of yards across the prairie, he pauses to look back upon the disturber Of his dreams.

In the clear moonlight Of a southern sky, he recognizes the most ruthless Of his enemies - man. One is approaching upon horseback.

Yielding to instinctive dread, he is about to resume his flight when something in the appearance Of the horseman - some unnatural seeming - holds him transfixed to the spot.

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About The Author Thomas Mayne Reid (1818 – 1883), was a Scots-Irish American writer known as . "Captain" Reid. He wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson.These novels contain action that takes place primarily in untamed settings: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica. He is perhaps best known for the classic The Headless Horseman (1865). A quotation from The Scalp Hunters is on his grave marker: "This is `weed prairie'; it is misnamed: It is the Garden of God." Reid's work attracted a large following of admirers, particularly young boys. Vladimir Nabokov recalled The Headless Horseman as a favourite adventure novel of his childhood years "which had given him a vision of the prairies and the great open spaces and the overarching sky." In his autobiography, United States President Teddy Roosevelt credits Mayne Reide with being a major early inspiration. The shy, asthmatic aristocrat, Theodore Roosevelt, would grow up to pursue naturalistic zoology and adventure travel. Russell Miller, in his biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, credits Mayne Reid as being one of Conan Doyle's favorite childhood authors and a great influence on Conan Doyle's writings. Other books by the same author: The Rifle Rangers or Adventures in South Mexico (1850) Set in Vera Cruz, Mexico during the Mexican War (1846–48), this novel depicts the plight of American soldiers stationed in Mexico during the war and their effect on the native population. It follows the life of protagonist Captain Jack Haller as he helms the newly formed American battalion, dubbed the "Rifle Rangers". Accompanying Haller is a small band of fellow soldiers whom he leads on several missions through the Tierra Caliente portion of Mexico. The Rifle Rangers was Reid's first novel and is reflective of the author's wartime duty as a lieutenant in the First New York Volunteer Infantry, with which he traveled to the parts of Mexico.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330335147
• ISBN 13: 9781330335147
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 514