An adventure tale of intrepid explorers searching for a legendary lost city of ancient Aztecs. Seeking the true history of the Americas, an anthropologist enlists the aid of a friar and some roustabouts to search for the thriving secret city. First p...
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Thomas A. Janvier (1849-1913) was an American story-writer and historian. Born in Philadelphia, he spent several years in Colorado, New Mexico and Mexico, thereby gaining inspiration and material for much of his literary work. Facsimile reprint....
According to Wikipedia: Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913) was an American story-writer and historian, born in Philadelphia of Provençal descent. His father was Philadelphia businessman and poet Francis De Haes Janvier. He received a public s...
Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913) was an American story-writer and historian. From 1884-94, he lived in the Washington Square district of New York, which would inspire his works about old New York, including this volume....
Contents PAGE THE CHRISTMAS KALENDS OF PROVENCE 1 A FEAST-DAY ON THE RHÔNE 133 THE COMÉDIE FRANÇAISE AT ORANGE 209Illustrations 'TO THE HEALTH OF THE COUNT!' ...
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"The Aztec Treasure-House, billed as ""A Romance of Contemporaneous Antiquity,"" is a lost-race novel, as the narrator travels to Mexico and finds a lost tribe of Aztecs, hidden treasure, and gold.
Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913) was an Ameri...
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" ...]you were a brave man-and he told how you had spiked those last two guns Parbleu, but for that message you would have died When they brought you in here you were nearly gone ' "'And the lieutenant who ran away?' I asked. "'Oh, he was killed-as...
Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913) was an American story-writer and historian, born in Philadelphia of Provencal descent. He received a public school education, then worked in Philadelphia for newspapers from 1870-81. In 1878 he married Catharine An...
Captain Luke Chilton counted over the five-dollar notes with a greater care than I thought was necessary, considering that there were only ten of them; and cautiously examined each separate one, as though he feared that I might be trying to pay for m...
Thomas Allibone Janvier (1849-1913) was an American story-writer and historian, born in Philadelphia of Provencal descent. He received a public school education, then worked in Philadelphia for newspapers from 1870-81. In 1878 he married Catharine An...
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