At the close of his first year in college Dick Melvin is induced to earn a passage to Europe by helping on a cattle steamer. The work is not so bad, but Dick finds ample use for the vigor, self control, and quick wit in emergency which he has gained from football.
The Pecks are twin brothers so resembling each other that it was almost impossible to tell them apart, a fact which the roguish lads made the most of in a typical summer camp for boys.
This is the story of a young man of positive character facing the stern problem of earning his way in a big school. The hero is not an imaginary compound of superlatives, but a plain person of flesh and blood, aglow with the hopeful idealism of youth, who succeeds and is not spoiled by success. He can run, and he does run—through the story.
“It is a good, wholesome, and true-to-life story, with plenty of happenings such as normal boys enjoy reading about.”—Brooklyn Daily Times.
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ON THE TRAIL OF THE SIOUX THE SILVER ISLAND OF THE CHIPPEWA LOST IN THE FUR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WILD NORTH THE LURE OF THE BLACK HILLS THE LURE OF THE MISSISSIPPI