Gustave Aimard

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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books
  • First Book:
    May 2012
  • Latest Book:
    September 2024
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Book List in Order: 32 titles

  • The Frontiersmen

    In 1783, America had won the Revolutionary War, but the brand-new country was still struggling to survive. Gustave Aimard's The Frontiersman focuses on the triumphs and tribulations of white settlers and native peoples in a vast swath of western ...

  • The Border Rifles

    Gustave Aimard (1818-83) was a French author who wrote numerous novels set in Latin America. Named Olivier Aimard at his birth in Paris, he was the illegitimate son of a general in Napoleon's army and given away to a family who were paid to raise him...

  • The Freebooters

    All the wood rangers have noticed, with reference to the immense virgin forests which still cover a considerable extent of the soil of the New World, that, to the man who attempts to penetrate into one of these mysterious retreats which the hand of m...

  • The Tiger-Slayer

    It is hardly necessary to say anything on behalf of the new aspirant for public favour whom I am now introducing to the reader. He has achieved a continental reputation, and the French regard him proudly as their Fenimore Cooper. It will be found, I ...

  • The Pirates of the Prairies

    Gustave Aimard (13 September 1818 - 20 June 1883) was the author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. Aimard was born Olivier Aimard in Paris. As he once said, he was the son of two people who were married, but not to each...

  • The Trail-Hunter

    Gustave Aimard (13 September 1818 - 20 June 1883) was the author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. Aimard was born Olivier Aimard in Paris. As he once said, he was the son of two people who were married, but not to each...

  • The Trapper's Daughter

    Gustave Aimard (13 September 1818 - 20 June 1883) was the author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. Aimard was born Olivier Aimard in Paris. As he once said, he was the son of two people who were married, but not to each...

  • The Gold-Seekers

    Though he was born and died in France, action-adventure writer Gustave Aimard was endlessly enamored with the Americas, and he journeyed extensively in the United States, Mexico, and South America over the course of his life. In The Gold-Seekers, Aim...

  • The Indian Chief



  • The Red Track

    The Red Track: A Story of Social Life in Mexico by Gustave Aimard plunges readers into a thrilling adventure set against the backdrop of Mexico. This meticulously prepared historical print edition offers a window into a tumultuous era, likely revolvi...

  • The Adventurers

    During my last sojourn in America, chance, or rather my good star, led me to form an acquaintance with one of those hunters, or wood rangers, the type of whom has been immortalized by Cooper, in his poetical personage, Leather-Stockings. The strange ...

  • The Buccaneer Chief

    Although the Seine, from Chanceaux, its fountainhead, to Havre, where it falls into the sea, is not more than four hundred miles in length, still, in spite of this comparatively limited course, this river is one of the most important in the world; fo...

  • The Indian Scout

    “The following work has been the most successful of all Gustave Aimard has published in Paris, and it has run through an unparalleled number of Editions. This is not surprising, however, when we bear in mind that he describes in it his personal exp...

  • The Pearl of the Andes

    While Doña Rosario effected her escape by the assistance of Curumilla, as recorded in the "Adventurers," Don Tadeo was not long in regaining his senses. On opening his eyes he cast a bewildered look around him, but as soon as memory threw light into...

  • The Prairie Flower

    America is the land of prodigies! Everything there assumes gigantic proportions, which startle the imagination and confound the reason. Mountains, rivers, lakes and streams, all are carved on a sublime pattern. There is a river of North America -- no...

  • The Queen of the Savannah

    The story begins on May 5, 1805, in one of the wildest and most abrupt portions of New Spain, which now forms the State of Coahuila, belonging to the Mexican Confederation. If the reader will have the kindness to take a glance at a numerous cavalcade...

  • The Rebel Chief

    Gustave Aimard has written a historical tale in this novel that combines suspense, deceit, romance and love. Along with it is the historical side of Mexico and a thrilling adventure as well. This is a one of those books that a number of people want...

  • The Smuggler Chief

    Leopold Classic Library is delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive collection. As part of our on-going commitment to delivering value to the reader, we have also provided you with a link to a website, where you may download a...

  • Stoneheart

    Like many of Gustave Aimard's classic action-adventure novels, Stoneheart traces long-simmering conflicts between two groups of people: the indigenous tribes that occupied the land for thousands of years, and the more recent arrivals seeking to explo...



  • The Trappers of Arkansas

    The traveller who for the first time lands in the southern provinces of America involuntarily feels an undefinable sadness. In fact, the history of the New World is nothing but a lamentable martyrology, in which fanaticism and cupidity continually go...

  • Last of the Incas

    Patagonia is as little known at the present day as it was when Juan Diaz de Solis and Vicente Yanez Pinzon landed there in 1508, sixteen years after the discovery of the New World. The earliest navigators, whether involuntarily or not, threw over thi...

  • Stronghand

    The country extending between the Sierra de San Saba and the Rio Puerco, or Dirty River, is one of the most mournful and melancholy regions imaginable. This accursed savannah, on which bleach unrecognized skeletons, which the wind and sun strive to c...

  • The Red River Half-Breed

    We stand on the loftiest peak of the Big Wind River Mountains, that highest and longest chain of the Northern Rockies, a chaos of granite fifteen thousand feet towards the firmament from the sea. Around us the lesser pinnacles hold up heads as fantas...

  • The Flying Horseman

    We left the Marchioness de Castelmelhor and her daughter Eva prisoners of the Pincheyra. Thanks to the presence of the strangers in the camp, no one came to trouble the solitude of the captives. Towards the evening they were warned by a somewhat brie...

  • The Treasure of Pearls

    We stand on Mexican soil. We are on the seaward skirt of its westernmost State of Sonora, in the wild lands almost washed by the Californian Gulf, which will be the formidable last ditch of the unconquerable red men flying before the Star of the Empi...

  • The Bee Hunters

  • The Guide of the Desert

  • The Missouri Outlaws

    Gustave Aimard (13 September 1818 - 20 June 1883) was the author of numerous books about Latin America and the American frontier. Aimard was born Olivier Aimard in Paris. As he once said, he was the son of two people who were married, but not to each...

  • The Insurgent Chief

    Although the town of San Miguel de Tucuman is not very ancient, and its construction dates scarcely two centuries back, nevertheless -- thanks, perhaps, to the calm and studious population which inhabit it -- it has a certain middle age odour which i...



  • The Rebel Chief A Tale of Guerilla Life

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Adventures of Bearcub Ironskull

    Deeply rooted in popular culture, the world of piracy has given rise to many familiar characters. From Captain Hook to Long John Silver, Captain Nemo to Jack Sparrow, the adventures of pirates have graced the pages of many novels and seen a multitude...

  • The White Scalper - A Story of the Texan War

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    Set against the backdrop of the Mexican-American War, Gustave Aimard's thrilling adventure tale The White Scalper is yet another of the author's novels whose central protagonist is something of a cultural misfit, an outsider who has spurned social ni...

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Gustave Aimard has published 32 books.

Gustave Aimard does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Adventures of Bearcub Ironskull, was published in September 2024.

The first book by Gustave Aimard, The Frontiersmen, was published in May 2012.

No. Gustave Aimard does not write books in series.
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