[Gutenberg 43925] • The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border

• Three of Gustave Aimard's action adventure romance tales set in American are bound together in this Kindle trilogy edition: The Missouri Outlaws, The Prairie Flower & The Indian Scout

The Missouri Outlaws

Both an action adventure story and a love tale, the book is centred around mysterious outlaw Tom Mitchell, along with the Squatter, a restless, unconquerable American, his wife and daughter and eccentric brother. This Kindle edition include the sequels: The Prairie Flower and The Indian Scout.

The Indian Scout (1910) was the most successful of Gustave Aimard’s book when it was published in France. In the novel, Aimard describes in it his personal experiences in the Indian Aztec city, and tells the tale of his adventures. From this volume we learn to regard the Indians from a very different perspective, for it is evident that they are something more than savages, and possess their traditions just as much as any nation of the Old World.

About The Author

Gustave Aimard 1818–1883) was born Olivier Aimard in Paris and wrote more than 70 books, many about American Indians. His novels were greeted with enormous popularity and translated into nearly every modern language. The author was generally recognised as the French version of popular American author James Fenimore Cooper, who wrote The Last of the Mohican.

According to his translators: Aimard was the adopted son of one of the most powerful Indian tribes, with whom he lived for more than fifteen years in the heart of the Prairies, sharing their dangers and their combats, and accompanying them everywhere, rifle in one hand and tomahawk in the other.

In turn squatter, hunter, trapper, warrior, and miner, Aimard traversed America from the highest peaks of the Cordilleras to the ocean shores, living from hand to mouth, happy for the day. Aimard describes his own life in his novels. The Indians of whom he speaks he has known — the manners he depicts are his own.

While each work in the action adventure romances is complete within itself, the volumes are arranged in the following order:

1\. The Missouri Outlaws (1877)

2\. The Prairie Flower, A Tale of the Indian Border 1874)

3\. The Indian Scout (1910)