Complete and unabridged, with 43 full-page plates by Albert Bierstadt, Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran. Fireside sketches and moral tales for young readers by the man who invented the American boys' series book, writing here in a quieter key than the adventures that made him. This edition binds 43 plates after Winslow Homer, Mary Cassatt, Albert Bierstadt and others, alongside seven in-text illustrations restored and coloured, with a preface to the new edition.