Lost in the Cañon
Lost in the Cañon by A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun is available here as the complete text, split into 654 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
Lost in the Cañon The Story of Sam Willett's Adventures on the Great Colorado of the West by A. R. (Alfred Rochefort) Calhoun. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #37466.
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- Chapter I A Remarkable Camp
- Chapter II Looking Backward and Forward
- Chapter III Sam’s Trials Begin
- Chapter IV A Perilous Situation
- Chapter V At Hurley’s Gulch
- Chapter VI Why the Papers Were Not Brought
- Chapter VII The Wonderful Voyage Begins
- Chapter VIII Mr. Willett and Hank Tims
- Chapter IX A Fruitless Effort
- Chapter X A Night of Awful Gloom
- Chapter XI A Trying Situation
- Chapter XII The Voyage Is Resumed
- Chapter XIII Whirled Away
- Chapter XIV Order and Disorder
- Chapter XV The Provisions All Gone
- Chapter XVI Danger Ahead
- Chapter XVII Mr. Willett Learns the News
- Chapter XVIII In the Rapids
- Chapter XIX Afloat Again
- Chapter XX The Trial Begins
- Chapter XXI A Break in the Clouds
- Chapter XXII "Joy! Joy! It Is Ulna Again!"
- Chapter XXIII The Trial in Progress
- Chapter XXIV Out of the Depths
- Chapter XXV From Safety into Danger
- Chapter XXVI The Trial Ends
- Chapter XXVII The Apaches Have Their Way
- Chapter XXVIII A Bold Move
- Chapter XXIX The Verdict and Sentence
- Chapter XXX Surprise for Hurley’s Gulch
- Chapter XXXI How It Fared with Sam and His Friends
- Chapter XXXII In Greater Peril Still
- Chapter XXXIII In a Trap
- Chapter XXXIV A Brief Truce and What Followed It
- Chapter XXXV A Night Battle
- Chapter XXXVI To the Rescue
- Chapter XXXVII Sam’s Devotion Is Rewarded
- Chapter XXXVIII The Last, but Not the Least Important
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