The Dare Boys Megapack
COPYRIGHT INFO
The Dare Boys Megapack is copyright © 2014 by Wildside Press, LLC. All rights reserved. Cover art © Patrimonio Designs / Fotolia.
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The Dare Boys of 1776 originally appeared in 1910.
The Dare Boys in Virginia originally appeared in 1910.
The Dare Boys with General Greene originally appeared in 1910.
A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
The “Dare Boys” are Dick and Tom Dare, two patriot youths, brothers, “from about three miles over in New Jersey.” They get caught up in key episodes of the United States’ Revolutionary War—and the years after—interacting with historically important figures along the way. This is a great series for readers interested in U.S. history.
The series originally ran for 12 books, but only three are available at this time. All three are included here.
The series consisted of:
1. The Dare Boys of 1776 (1910).
2. The Dare Boys on the Hudson (1910).
3. The Dare Boys in Trenton (1910).
4. The Dare Boys on the Brandywine (1910).
5. The Dare Boys in the Red City (1910).
6. The Dare Boys After Benedict Arnold (1910).
7. The Dare Boys in Virginia (1910).
8. The Dare Boys With General Greene (1910).
9. The Dare Boys With Lafayette (1910).
10. The Dare Boys and the “Swamp Fox” (1911).
11. The Dare Boys at Vincennes (1912).
12. The Dare Boys in the North West (1913).
Note: as with all books of this period, language, idiom, racial sensitivity, and appropriateness may not mesh with contemporary standards. For example, young readers of the era were expected to know terms like “sang froid” (literally “cold blood”—coolness under pressure), and some of the dialog is in dialect. (Sound it out and it will make sense.) Native Americans are also depicted as savage tools of the British.
These books are artifacts of the age in which they were written; please go in with this fact in mind.
—John Betancourt
Publisher, Wildside Press LLC
www.wildsidepress.com
ABOUT THE MEGAPACKS
Over the last few years, our “Megapack” series of ebook anthologies has grown to be among our most popular endeavors. (Maybe it helps that we sometimes offer them as premiums to our mailing list!) One question we keep getting asked is, “Who’s the editor?”
The Megapacks (except where specifically credited) are a group effort. Everyone at Wildside works on them. This includes John Betancourt (me), Carla Coupe, Steve Coupe, Bonner Menking, Colin Azariah-Kribbs, A.E. Warren, and many of Wildside’s authors…who often suggest stories to include (and not just their own!)
A NOTE FOR KINDLE READERS
The Kindle versions of our Megapacks employ active tables of contents for easy navigation…please look for one before writing reviews on Amazon that complain about the lack! (They are sometimes at the ends of ebooks, depending on your reader.)
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TYPOS
Unfortunately, as hard as we try, a few typos do slip through. We update our ebooks periodically, so make sure you have the current version (or download a fresh copy if it’s been sitting in your ebook reader for months.) It may have already been updated.
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