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Title: South American Fights and Fighters
And Other Tales of Adventure

Author: Cyrus Townsend Brady

Release Date: March 26, 2007 [eBook #20910]

Language: English

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American Fights and Fighters Series

SOUTH AMERICAN FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS

And Other Tales of Adventure

by

CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL. D.

Illustrations by Seymour M. Stone, George Gibbs, W. J. Aylward
and J. N. Marchand

Together with Reproductions from Old Prints and Portraits

[Frontispiece: "The Poor Little Governor . . . Distanced His Fierce
Pursuers at Last"]

Garden City -------- New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
MCMXIII
All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Copyright, 1910, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Published, April, 1910

To

George William Beatty

Good Fellow, Good Citizen

Good Friend

PREFACE

The first part of this new volume of the _American Fights and Fighters
Series_ needs no special introduction. Partly to make this the same
size as the other books, but more particularly because I especially
desired to give a permanent place to some of the most dramatic and
interesting episodes in our history--especially as most of them rel