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(More customer reviews)Altsheler was a prolific author of boy's adventure series whose works are all in the public domain and ought to be reprinted in paperbacks. The Young Trailers series is set in the Kentucky woods about the time of the American Revolution. The author's great gift is to keep the exciting incidents coming, one after another. Virtually all of the action takes place outdoors, and a sort of nature mysticism pervades, without softening the adventure. Indians are treated with great respect, though the advance of the white man is regarded as good and inevitable. The heroes, however they may sympathize with their own race, are themselves more attracted to the outdoor life of their adversaries, and regret its passing. It is worth noting that in The Adventures of Augie March, Saul Bellow reveals his familiarity with the series, by comparing a relationship to that between Henry Ware (hero of the Young Trailers) and the Wyandotte chief Timendiquas (who does not appear until a later book in the series.) Those of us who, as boys, had the great good fortune to find an Altsheler series in our local public libraries remember these works with reverence.
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