oo late, he turned his attention again to literature,
and in London in 1850, published his first novel "The Rifle Rangers," in
two volumes. Between this date and his death, he produced a large number
of volumes, which indeed no one else was capable of writing, for in them
are avowedly embodied the observations and experiences of his own
extraordinary career.

Unfortunate building and journalistic speculation and enterprises
involved him in financial failure, so he returned to New York in
October, 1867. There he founded and conducted _The Onward Magazine_, but
owing to recurring bad effects of his old Mexican wound, he had to
abandon work for sometime and go into the hospital, on leaving which he
returned to England in 1870. During the later years of his life he
resided at Ross in Herefordshire where he died on the 22nd October,
1883, and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery.

Mayne Reid wrote in all thirty-five works, chiefly books of adventure
and travel. As in the case of all authors, the books vary much in merit,
but most of them are of a high order in their own department of
literature. Many of them have been extraordinary popular and have become
standard works. Reid has not been surpassed by any other writer in
combining at one and the same time, the features of thrilling adventure
and great instruction in the fields of natural history. Many of the
works have been translated into Continental languages and are as highly
esteemed among the French and Germans as at home.

CONTENTS

THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS

OR

BOY HUNTERS IN THE NORTH.

_CHAPTER I_ PAGE
THE FUR COUNTRIES 13

_CHAPTER II_
THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS 16

_CHAPTER III_
THE TRUMPETER SWAN AND THE BALD EAGLE 22

_CHAPTER IV_
A SWAN-HUNT BY TORCHLIGHT 29

_CHAPTER V_
"CAST AWAY" 34

_CHAPTER VI_
A BRIDGE OF BUCKSKIN 37

_CHAPTER VII_
DECOYING THE ANTELOPES 41

_CHAPTER VIII_
"A PARTRIDGE DANCE" 45

_CHAPTER IX_
BASIL AND THE BISON-BULL 48

_CHAPTER X_
THREE CURIOUS TREES 52

_CHAP