Prince Dusty: A Story of the Oil Regions
Prince Dusty: A Story of the Oil Regions by Kirk Munroe is available here as the complete text, split into 464 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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Prince Dusty: A Story of the Oil Regions
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II A Present from a Fairy Godmother
- Chapter III Brace Barlow the Moonlighter
- Chapter IV A Torpedo Man’s Peril
- Chapter V Arthur and His Cousins
- Chapter VI A Gallant Rescue and Its Reward
- Chapter VII Uncle Phin’s Plan
- Chapter VIII Awakened at Midnight
- Chapter IX A Hurried Flight
- Chapter X On Board the Ark
- Chapter XI Uncle Phin’s Danger
- Chapter XII A Torrent of Flame
- Chapter XIII How the Ark Was Saved
- Chapter XIV A Camp of Tramps
- Chapter XV Arthur’s Fight to Save Rusty
- Chapter XVI The Meaning of Some Queer Signs
- Chapter XVII Pleasant Driftings
- Chapter XVIII The Ark Is Stolen
- Chapter XIX Penniless Wanderers in a Strange City
- Chapter XX A Railroad Experience
- Chapter XXI
- Chapter XXII Saving the Keystone Express
- Chapter XXIII Crossing the Alleghanies
- Chapter XXIV A Brave Struggle with Poverty
- Chapter XXV Finding a Home
- Chapter XXVI Colonel Dale of Dalecourt
- Chapter XXVII A “Genuine Chump.”
- Chapter XXVIII A Few Facts Concerning Petroleum
- Chapter XXIX Locating an Oil Well
- Chapter XXX The Dale-Dustin Mystery
- Chapter XXXI
- Chapter XXXII Shooting a “Duster.”
- Chapter XXXIII Saved by the Sign of the Tramp
- Chapter XXXIV An Oil Scout Outwitted
- Chapter XXXV Developing an Oil Region
- Chapter XXXVI Arthur Remembers His Friends
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