After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life.

While in China on business in the 1920s, a young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River.

J. Frank Dobie's stories of memorable characters from Texas history. 287 pages, frontis, illustrations. Trail drives, outlaws, Bigfoot Wallace, buffalo, Indian fights, etc. Herd 691, Six-Guns 602 "Has some information on Clay Allison and other gunmen." Trail drives, outlaws, Bigfoot Wallace, buffalo, Indian fights, cowboys, Texas, ranching, Gunmen.

Amantha Starr, who was sent to Ohio at age nine to receive an education, does not return to her father's Kentucky plantation until she learns of his death. At his graveside she is shocked to learn that her mother had been a plantation slave, and now she, Amantha, is being sold by her father's creditors. This is her story for a search of freedom.