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Murray’s Adirondack Tales is a collection of frontier adventure stories set in the untamed Adirondack wilderness. Featuring John Norton, "The Trapper," these tales explore life in the deep woods, justice, and the spirit of the American frontier.

Daylight Land is an engaging travelogue in which William Henry Harrison Murray recounts his journey across Canada to Vancouver. Blending adventure, humor, and cultural observations, this book offers a fascinating glimpse into North American landscapes at the turn of the 20th century.

Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some humorous some serious, of the out-of-doors, of love between man and woman, man and horse, man and dog, teacher and acolyte, of wisdom and foolishness. This recording is a selection of his short stories from "The Busted Ex-Texan And Other Stories" (1889), "How Deacon Tubman And Parson Whitney Kept New Years And Other Stories" (1888) and "A Ride With A Mad ...