A Texas Ranger
A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine is available here as the complete text, split into 1229 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #4993.
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A Texas Ranger
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Lieutenant Fraser Interferes
- Chapter III A Discovery
- Chapter IV Lost!
- Chapter V Larry Neill to the Rescue
- Chapter VI Somebody's Acting Mighty Foolish
- Chapter VII Enter Mr. Dunke
- Chapter VIII Would You Worry About Me?
- Chapter IX Down the Jackrabbit Shaft
- Chapter X In a Tunnel of the Mal Pais
- Chapter XI The Southerner Takes a Risk
- Chapter XII Exit Dunke
- Chapter XIII Steve Offers Congratulations
- Chapter XIV In the Fire Zone
- Chapter XV A Compact
- Chapter XVI Into Lost Valley
- Chapter XVII The Warning of Mantrap Gulch
- Chapter XVIII
- Chapter XIX A Sure Enough Wolf
- Chapter XX The Round-Up
- Chapter XXI The Broncho Busters
- Chapter XXII A Shot from Bald Knob
- Chapter XXIII Doc Lee
- Chapter XXIV The Fat in the Fire
- Chapter XXV The Dance
- Chapter XXVI The Wolf Howls
- Chapter XXVII Howard Explains
- Chapter XXVIII
- Chapter XXIX The Wolf Bites
- Chapter XXX On the Road to Gimlet Butte
- Chapter XXXI A Witness in Rebuttal
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How long does A Texas Ranger take to read?
About 512 minutes of reading across 1229 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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- Foreword
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- Gentle
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- Reader
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