The Heart of Canyon Pass
The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes is available here as the complete text, split into 1072 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Heart of Canyon Pass by Thomas K. Holmes. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #36953.
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The Heart of Canyon Pass
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Discontent at Ditson Corners
- Chapter III A Shadow Thrown Before
- Chapter IV Philosophy Bound in Homespun
- Chapter V How the Passonians Took It
- Chapter VI The Approach
- Chapter VII The First Trick
- Chapter VIII A Flower in the Mire
- Chapter IX A Beginning
- Chapter X Mutterings of a Storm
- Chapter XI The Storm About to Burst
- Chapter XII Tolley’s Tale
- Chapter XIII Plans Are Made
- Chapter XIV The Great Day Arrives
- Chapter XV Pep and a Little Pepper
- Chapter XVI Love and Longing
- Chapter XVII A Battle in a Girl’s Heart
- Chapter XVIII The Shadow on Betty’s Path
- Chapter XIX A Good Deal of a Man
- Chapter XX Murder Will Out
- Chapter XXI The Drama of a Lie
- Chapter XXII A Face in the Storm
- Chapter XXIII A Great Light Dawns
- Chapter XXIV The Barrier Down—for a Moment
- Chapter XXV Understanding
- Chapter XXVI Threatening Weather
- Chapter XXVII Several Conclusions
- Chapter XXVIII Catastrophe
- Chapter XXIX His Last Card
- Chapter XXX Clearing Skies
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