Complete Western Romance Anthologies of William O. Stoddard

An American author, inventor, and assistant secretary to Abraham Lincoln during his first term.

Contents
Winter Fun (1885)
The Noank's Log (1900)
The Red Mustang (1890)
Two Arrows (1886)
Crowded Out o' Crofield (1890)
Ahead of the Army (1903)
The Lost Gold of the Montezumas (1898)
Dab Kinzer (1878)
The Talking Leaves (1882)

Crowded Out o' Crofield (1890)
Only a few of the kindly reviewers of the earlier editions of Crowded Out o' Crofield have suggested that it has at all exaggerated the possible career of its boy and girl actors. If any others have silently agreed with them, it may be worth while to say that the pictures of places and the doings of older and younger people are pretty accurately historical. The story and the writing of it were suggested in a conversation with an energetic American boy who was crowded out of his own village into a career which led to something much more surprising than a profitable junior partnership.

Dab Kinzer (1878)
"William O. Stoddard has written capital books for boys. His 'Dab Kinzer' and 'The Quartet' are among the best specimens of 'Juveniles' produced anywhere. In his latest volume, 'Winter Fun,' Mr. Stoddard gives free rein to his remarkable gift of story-telling for boys. Healthful works of this kind cannot be too freely distributed among the little men of America." --New York Journal of Commerce.