The Dog Crusoe and his Master - Ballantyne, R. M.
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After winning a shooting competition, Crusoe, a Newfoundland dog, finds himself the best of all conceivable friends. Huge, like other members of his kind, and trained for two years to become an excellent hunter and swimmer. Crusoe was prepared for anything; his tail and ears would instantly rise. Crusoe, Dick, and two other brave explorers are followed as they trek the western plains on a hazy peace mission among the local tribes. As well as some of the most hostile ""Red-skins,"" there are grizzly bears, a stampede of wild horses, avalanches, and whirlwinds. A little boy won Crusoe and a…mehr

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After winning a shooting competition, Crusoe, a Newfoundland dog, finds himself the best of all conceivable friends. Huge, like other members of his kind, and trained for two years to become an excellent hunter and swimmer. Crusoe was prepared for anything; his tail and ears would instantly rise. Crusoe, Dick, and two other brave explorers are followed as they trek the western plains on a hazy peace mission among the local tribes. As well as some of the most hostile ""Red-skins,"" there are grizzly bears, a stampede of wild horses, avalanches, and whirlwinds. A little boy won Crusoe and a weapon in a shooting competition. The reader gets to experience the thrill of adventure as the kid and dog mature and rode out to see the wide prairie for the first time as well as the many creatures and wonderful landscape.
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R. M. Ballantyne was a Scottish writer of young adult literature who produced more than a hundred books between 24 April 1825 and 8 February 1894. He was also a skilled artist; some of his watercolors were on display at the Royal Scottish Academy. The ninth of ten children and youngest son of Alexander Thomson Ballantyne (1776-1847) and his wife Anne, Ballantyne was born in Edinburgh on April 24, 1825. (1786-1855). Robert's uncle James Ballantyne (1772-1833) was Sir Walter Scott's printer, and Alexander worked as a newspaper editor and printer in the family business "Ballantyne & Co" based at Paul's Works on the Canongate. The family is documented to have resided at 20 Fettes Row in Edinburgh's northern New Town in 1832-1833. The Ballantyne printing company collapsed the next year with debts of £130,000 as a result of a UK-wide banking crisis, which caused a decrease in the family's finances. Ballantyne moved to Canada at the age of 16 and worked for the Hudson's Bay Company for five years. He traveled by canoe and sleigh to the regions that are now the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec to trade with the local First Nations and Native Americans for furs; these experiences served as the inspiration for his book The Young Fur Traders.