The Night Riders

Wood, Henry Cleveland, 1855-Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Word count: 283K words
Chapters: 29

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.The Night Riders by Henry Cleveland WoodAuthor: Wood, Henry Cleveland, 1855-,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Jun 21, 2011

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Wood, Henry Cleveland, 1855- Author · 1855

Henry Cleveland Wood (born 1855) is an author whose life dates and biographical details are largely unknown, and available public information about him is limited. According to existing bibliographic records, he was born in 1855, his year of death is unknown, and his works appeared mainly in English-language publications; only one of his works is held in this collection, namely The Night Riders. Judging from the title and the known publication context, the book tends toward narrative writing with local color and dramatic tension, possibly dealing with night riders or frontier stories, though the specific plot and writing style are difficult to describe in detail because of the lack of sources. With no biographical materials, his nationality, education, and writing career cannot be confirmed, and only this one surviving work allows a brief sketch of the man and his writing.