The Rachel Plumer Narrative

A stirring narrative of
adventure, hardship and
privation in the early
days of Texas, depicting
struggles with the Indians
and other adventures.

by Rachel Lofton,
  Susie Hendrix
  and Jane Kennedy                                

Privately published 1926
pdf download from Internet Archive

118 pages

2/23

Narrative of the Capture and Subsequent Sufferings of Mrs. Rachel Plummer During a Captivity of Twenty-one Months Among the Comanche Indians

by Rachel Plummer
(originally published 1839)                       

Lulu.com 2022
Print-on-demand fulfilled
     Febuary 14, 2024

49 pages

2/21

Boy, will I have a lot to say about this edition.

Empire of the Summer Moon

Quanah Parker and
the Rise and Fall
of the Comanches,
the Most Powerful
Indian Tribe in
American History

by S. C. Gwynne                                            

Scribner 2010

319 pages

Library loan*

2/21

*Library loan because I forgot that I had purchased the paperback version at a library sale some time ago for 50 cents. It's sitting on a bookshelf less than three feet from my left arm as I sit at the computer. In my defense it is on a higher shelf out of my direct line of sight, and therefore out of mind.

Devil's Battle

Artillerymen Book 3

by Taylor Anderson                                   

‎ Ace 2023

479 pages

Library ebook loan

2/13

The Attack

by Kurt Schlichter                                             

Kurt Schlichter 2024

353 pages

ebook version

2/7

Gulliver of Mars

(Original Title: Lieut. Gulliver Jones)
A long-lost classic of Martian adventure

by Edwin L. Arnold

‎ Ace Books 1964

224 pages

2/4
Originally published in London in 1905 as Lieutenant Gulliver Jones by Brown, Langham and Co., Ltd, the title is sometimes refered to as "Lieut. Gulliver Jones: His Vacation." It is claimed that this story was a source for Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom, and while Arnold’s protagonist Gulliver Jones is nothing like Burroughs's John Carter, Carter is very much like “Phra the Phoenician” – another Arnold book. As for Arnold, he was probably influenced by “A Journey in Other Worlds” by John Jacob Astor (1894), and by “The Time Machine” by H. G. Wells (1895).

This copy is a part of Gary G. Johnson’s Classic Science Fiction Collection gifted in 2019.

Bibliophile

An Illustrated Miscellany

by Jane Mount                                        

‎ Chronicle Books 2018
6th Printing

224 pages

2/1
Christmas gift from justacarguy. Thanks Jesse!