Chapter I: Front Matter

The Rockspur Eleven

A FINE FOOTBALL STORY FOR BOYS

BY
BURT L. STANDISH
AUTHOR OF
“_The Merriwell Stories_”

STREET & SMITH, PUBLISHERS
79-89 SEVENTH AVE., NEW YORK CITY

Copyright, 1900
By STREET & SMITH

The Rockspur Eleven

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Letters of congratulation have been showered upon us from all over the country by enthusiastic readers who say that had we not announced that Mr. Cook wrote all of these stories, it would have been very difficult to determine it.

The reason is that Mr. Cook is a widely traveled man and has, therefore, been enabled to lay the plot of one of his stories in the “land of little rain,” another on the high seas, another in Spain and Spanish America, and to write a railroad story that a reader of thirty years’ experience decided must have been written by a veteran railroad man. If stories of vigorous adventure are wanted, stories that are drawn true to life and give that thrill which all really good fiction ought to give, the books listed here are what you want.

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_By WILLIAM WALLACE COOK_

1--The Desert Argonaut.
2--A Quarter to Four.
3--Thorndyke, of the _Bonita_.
4--A Round Trip to the Year 2000.
5--The Gold Gleaners.
6--The Spur of Necessity.
7--The Mysterious Mission.
8--The Goal of a Million.
9--Marooned in 1492.
10--Running the Signal.
11--His Friend, the Enemy.
12--In the Web.
13--A Deep Sea Game.
14--The Paymaster’s Special.
15--Adrift in the Unknown.
16--Jim Dexter, Cattleman.
17--Juggling With Liberty.
18--Back From Bedlam.
19--A River Tangle.
20--An Innocent Outlaw.
21--Billionaire Pro Tem and the Trail of the Billy Doo.
22--Rogers of Butte.
23--In the Wake of the _Simitar_.
24--His Audacious Highness.
25--At Daggers Drawn.
26--The Eighth Wonder.

To Be Published During July.

27--The Catspaw.

To Be Published During October.

28--The Cotton Bag.

To Be Published During January.

29--Little Miss Vassar.

THE ROCKSPUR ELEVEN.