On the Road with Ruben Doyle

An Orphan Train Headed West Launches A Boy Into Dangerous Territory And A Hard Education In Survival Leading Finally To The Ranch Of A Legendary Mountain Man And A Mining War In Southern Colorado. An Isolated Village On A Frontier In The Balkans Harbors Omens And Restless Spirits. A Daring Girl Steals A Captive Frog From A Traveling Fair And Braves A Haunted Gorge To Set Him Free. She Soon Makes A Startling Discovery.A Peasant Farmer In Southern China Suffers The Tyranny Of Bandits Manchu Soldiers And A Greedy Landlord. As If To Compensate Fate Has Given His Daughter An Extraordinary Head Of Hair And Placed In His Path A Young Man Wracked With Fever And Left Behind By A Caravan. What Can Come Of This? The Perils In Store For His Daughter Lead Finally To A Dramatic Climax Across The Pacific In Gold Mountain. Three Rousing Stories Of Compelling Young Heroes From Other Times Other Places. What Can Be Better Than That?