The Outdoor Chums on the Lake; Or, Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island by Allen
"The Outdoor Chums on the Lake; Or, Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island" by Captain Quincy Allen is a fictional adventure novel written in the early 20th century. The story follows a group of young boys known as the Outdoor Chums—Frank, Jerry, Bluff, and Will—as they embark on an exciting camping trip to Wildcat Island. Their adventure quickly escalates as they encounter a series of mishaps, including a steamboat fire and a robbery,
setting the stage for deeper mysteries and potential danger ahead. At the start of the novel, the Outdoor Chums are engaged in a canoe race on Lake Camalot when they notice smoke coming from the steamboat "Eastern Star". Rushing to help, they find themselves in the midst of a chaotic fire situation, where Frank leads a heroic effort to extinguish the flames and assist the panicked passengers. The plot thickens as a passenger announces the theft of a valuable packet during the chaos, implicating two suspicious tramps who had boarded the steamboat. As the boys pursue the fugitives, they decide to embark on a camping expedition to Wildcat Island, where they hope to uncover both the identity and motives of these two rogues, while also facing the thrilling prospect of encountering a mysterious wild man rumored to inhabit the island. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Allen, Quincy |
|---|---|
| Title | The Outdoor Chums on the Lake; Or, Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island |
| Credits |
Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 81.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres |
| Subject | Islands -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Adventure and adventurers -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Boys -- Societies and clubs -- Juvenile fiction |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 37486 |
| Release Date | Sep 20, 2011 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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