#Treasure Island 1881-1883

[daywalkers-fic]

12. why the 1880s?

something about this decade really sings to me. I find in particular, nearing the end of the nineteenth century, so much was happening on around the world in terms of arts, politics, technology, colonization. world events and global news don’t personally reach the day-to-day lives of the everyday folk, but they are an important part in gauging what life, thought, and society was about—what things were important then and now?

basically for myself, reminding me of notable things that occured during the 1880s—some thematic, some of relevance to context and characters, and the rest just ?? interesting and/or wild?

cocaine is a hot new cure for everything and anything. perscribed, sold in foods and more. heroine introduced as a lesser-addictive substitute for morphine…

lots of developments in fields of psychology; many experiments and happenings; Freud starts his work 1886.

1880-1914 had +twenty million immigrants to the United States: Germany, Ireland, England, China had the most arrivals.

William Dorsey Swann, the first self-proclaimed drag queen, organizes a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C. 1880-1890s.

Jack the Ripper claims his “first” victim in 1888 White Chapel, London. big scare.

Sherlock Holmes first appears in Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study In Scarlet as part of the British magazine’s Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887.

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is published in 1886. Gothic fiction, drawing from emerging fields of science and psychology. & Treasure Island was published earlier in 1883 by him too!

Mark Twain drops The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1889).

Bel-Ami, Guy de Maupassant’s second novel is published in 1885. about a man who seduces and manipulates high society French women in the French colonies for power and wealth. MOVIE WAS ADAPTED IN 2012 STARTING ROBERT PATTINSON LOL

western European art movements very romantic and swirly and pretty: Monet, Debussy xoxo.

meanwhile, African American ragtime music becomes the “pop” music across the pond here.

North Dakota (1889), South Dakota (1889), Montana (1889), Washington (1889) become states.

train segregation laws flag beginning of Jim Crow; Civil Rights Movement of 1875 voided, making discrimination in private is not illegal, and prohibiting state intervention to personal or commercial segregation. l*nching continues throughout the south. slavery may be over on paper, but indentured labour is legal.

1882 infamous O.K Corral gunfight.

Gold Rush continues, all over the world—South Africa, to British Columbia, to California, to Argentina, to Russia-China borders.

centuries of American “Indian” wars continue.

American Dawes Act of 1887 granted American government authorization to regulate indigenous lands, including creating and assigning and enforcing reservations.

Sitting Bull’s 1883 speech of the atrocities experienced at the hands of white American settler colonists.

Canadian Pacific Railway 1881-1885. foreign labourers were hired to do a lot of heavy, dangerous, unwanted work. in America, more than 100,000km of tracks were laid by majority Chinese, Irish, Scandinavian workers.

America’s Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and Canada’s Chinese Immigration Act of 1885 was officiated, enforcing law of a Head Tax to be paid for every Chinese person entering North America. over the course of the next couple of decades, the fee of $1,500 was doubled to $5,000 was increased 500% to $25,000 in today’s currency—per person. this had devastating and lasting impacts on generations and societies of Chinese living both overseas and already in North America. propaganda at this time created many racist myths that persist today: there are too many Asians, they are taking our jobs, (the men) are gross and effeminate and a threat to (white) women, they shady and scheming people. these were the first and only major federal legislation to explicitly suspend immigration for a specific nationality in American and Canadian history. (I study Asian Canadian history, I can go on about this all day)

Tong Wars (1883-1913) had Chinatown gangs and factions in violent street wars across America, San Fransisco to New York.

large, targeted, and repeated anti-Jewish rioting (pogorm) and antisemitism rampant throughout Imperial Russia, 1881-1882 had more than two hundred anti-Jewish events alone. Jews continue to be racialized and othered.

fuck ton of colonization happening in Africa and the Middle East, Southeast Asia. Berlin conference 1884-1885 literally chopped up Africa to distribute to European powers.

Irish nationalist efforts to push forth Home Rule bill of sovereignty is defeated in British Parliament. Irish are not “white”, they are “othered” in Europe and in Americas.

use of photographic film pioneered by George Eastman, who started manufacturing film. his first camera (Kodak) was ready for sale in 1888.

Thomas Edison gets lit in New York 1883 with first electrical power station. next several year sees major cities being lit up with street lamps and public lighting with the science and works of a Nikolas Tesla (1886-1893).

hell of a lot more inventions in the works and patents being claimed. Hertz and radiowaves, Bell for telephone services.

“Between the years of 1850–1900, women were placed in mental institutions for behaving in ways the male society did not agree with”

way too much history to cram, obviously. here are some keywords for further research oki

prison industry / spiritualism / opium epidemic / irregular and uneven “modernizations” in rural vs. urban areas / class and poverty gaps / morality scares, checks, comparisons, gaps / new businesses and gadgets, products, tech to help with anything / fascination of the (colonial) Other; side shows, “freak shows” and other human zoos

[poebradleyknox]

Treasure Island

Treasure Island was written in 1883 by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson who also famously wrote The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Even after 140 year later Treasure Island is still prominent in the pirate genre.

The novel was originally published in a children’s magazine of the name Young Folks from 1881 to 1882 it was then officially published as a book in 1883 and since then has become one of the most popular novels.

The depictions of pirates in this novel have forever influenced how we see pirates. Treasure Island introduced the stereotypes of peg-legs, parrots perching on shoulders and drawing an X on a map.

I’ve actually visited Braemar Castle in Scotland where he wrote a partial amount of Treasure Island whilst visiting, he wrote the rest in a cottage in Braemar and around London.

Historian Luis Junco suggests that the story of Treasure Island is a mix of fact and fiction and takes inspiration from the story about the murder of Captain George Glas in 1765 and the taking of a ship named The Walrus off the coast of the island La Graciosa near Tenerife.

There have been over 50 film and TV adaptations of Treasure Island the first of which being in 1918, it was a silent film with prominently child actors but the film is a piece of lost media and the full length of the film is not known to exist anywhere.

1934 gave us the first version with sound and then 1950 was the first time it was adapted into colour and also Disney’s first live action film. This is the most popular film adaptation of the story, most likely because it is produced by Disney.

Other countries have had their own adaptations as well, in 1937 a loose adaptation was released with Soviet themes implemented in to the story.

In Japan a 52 minute anime special of Treasure Island (Shin Takarajima) was produced in 1965 and was directed by Osamu Tezuka, who’s most famous for writing the original manga of Astro Boy.

[missmeltycat]

The Great Barnaby Treasure

A Treasure Island sequel.

It's been 4 years since the treasure of Captain Flint was recovered from the island and everyone is extremely bored of retirement. It's a good thing that something new has come into Trelawney's possession which opens up a brand new adventure for all!

Treasure Island was a book written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It was serialised from 1881 to 1882 in the children's magazine Young Folks, under the title Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola and the book was first published on the 14 November 1883.

Treasure Island (1881-1883 onwards) is public domain and this sequel is written in accordance with public domain written works. - All credits for the original storyline, characters and concepts to the original author.

Chapter 1

It had been 4 years since the treasure of Captain Flint had been found on that wretched island, but for everyone involved it felt like an eternity. Retirement, while a sparkling and exciting prospect at first, became dull and dreary.

Alexander Smollett was languishing in his house, dreaming of his past glory days and wishing he was back at the helm, spitting away his orders at the menfolk aboard.

David Livesey was just as tired of the lifestyle that retirement had offered him. His brain needed something to keep busy, so he had ended up taking the odd medical commission here and there, despite his wealth and employment status. Or lack thereof.

Squire John Trelawney had become so wretchedly bored that he had begun to collect random objects and his home was filled to the brim with artefacts from all over. The stranger, the better. This was also where he had met his current fancy. A man named Elias Granger, a collector on paper, but more of an underhanded pickpocket and small-time cat burglar if truth was to be told.

Ben Gunn had all but vanished. No trace of him was to be found, but it was assumed that he was happy somewhere, partaking in his cheese-based hobbies.

Jim was possibly the most fortunate of the lot. Since he had returned with a sum of the treasure, he had helped his mother return the Admiral Benbow Inn to its former glory. No, perhaps even better than before. The Inn was heaving with activity and was always filled with laughter, merriment and the occasional soldier, or sailor. But the sign above the door made it extremely clear that pirates were NOT welcome. Not at all.

Jim had decided long ago that he would never return to the island again to retrieve the remnants of gold that he believed to still be there. He was content in his lot at the Inn, helping his mother and attending the guests. It was not a glittering profession, nor was it as exciting as the prospect of using the money to collect artefacts, but he was extremely satisfied and content. He would move for no man. Or so he told himself.

Elias Granger had been visiting Trelawney, as was usually the custom for a Tuesday evening. He had exited the front door, a slight flush to his cheeks and his hair somewhat dishevelled. As he took a number of steps down the street, he passed Livesey and gave a slight nod in acknowledgement, which was returned with grace and gratitude from the ever-smiling man.

Livesey knocked on the door and waited for the doors to open, before he stomped his way inside and made his way up to the lounge where he knew that his friend the Squire would be.

As the door heaved open, Trelawney raised his head with a cheeky smile, and it almost caught David off guard. He let out a long and almost, melodious laugh as he waved a hand. “I say, my good fellow, what has you so enthused this evening?”

Usually, the man was very happy after one of Elias’ visits, but this time he was extra pleased with himself and Livesey needed to know why. Trelawney’s whims often had a habit of dragging him into them, so he needed to be aware of any potential dangers of that cheeky grin.

“I have just come into possession of something that might interest you.” The Squire was almost bouncing with excitement as he placed the small, neatly wrapped package on the table in front of him.

“Oh no, not one of your rude little carvings again. I told you, Trelawney, once you’ve seen one, you’ve seen them a-“ Livesey was cut off by his friend, who raised a hand to silence the Doctor and his smile, somehow, grew wider over his plump face. “This is not one of those. This is something entirely different.”

“Good. If I saw one more phallic pieces of jasper, I swore I was going to move to Jamaica.”

“Shh! Take a look!” The Squire slowly slid the package towards Livesey, who slowly reached for it with his gloved hands. After delicately fingering the string free of it’s knot, he unfurled the hessian and stared at the contents in silence for a moment. Trelawney almost held his breath waiting for a reaction from the large man in front of him.

“It’s a rock.”

“Not just any rock!”

“Yes, it’s schist!”

“Language, Livesey, tsk tsk!”

Livesey let out a laugh that almost shook the walls. “No, no, Trelawney. Schist. The rock. A medium-grained metamorphic rock!”

“Well, regardless of what it is, it’s very important.”

“Oh? How so?” Livesey turned the rock in his hand, holding it between his forefinger and thumb, before looking at it from underneath and above. “It looks rather ordinary to me.”

“That’s what they want you to think!”

He lowered the rock and blinked curiously at Trelawney. “Pardon me? Who is ‘they’?”

The Squire leaned half across the table, his feet raising from the floor and wiggling in an almost comical manner as he whispered as if the very walls had ears. “Captain Barnaby!”

David knew who Captain Barnaby was. He was part of many children’s games and the subject of many a fantastical tale. He was a pirate who had reputedly left treasure in a secret location and had set up a very secret and hard to follow trail to find it. Only those in the know, who were very brave, or with nothing left to lose could stand to find the treasure.

The usual grinning countenance of the Doctor faded into an almost alien expression of distrust and his voice lowered in tone.

“John.”

Trelawney batted him away dismissively with a groan. “Don’t call me by my first name like that! I know what you are thinking! But this legend could have basis in fact! Just look at Flint’s trove, that was real and we found it!”

“Even if it was real, there were several occasions in our last venture in which we almost came to a grizzly end. All of us.”

“Yes, that is true, but surely you…” He thrust out a finger at the Doctor and wiggled it accusingly. “Surely you of all people can’t tell me that you wouldn’t be just a LITTLE interested in this.”

Livesey rolled his eyes, his smile returning once again. “OK, Trelawney, let’s hear about your little rock friend.”

Satisfied that he was now listening and taking him seriously, the Squire plopped back down on his rear end with a smile, took the rock and pointed to it. “This particular type of rock can be found in a number of places. But, there is a location where there is only a small amount of it.”

“Go on.”

Trelawney reached for the small piece of parchment that had lined the hessian parcel and handed it to Livesey, who proceeded to examine it carefully.

“I see. So, this location has what exactly?” He wanted him to spell it out exactly, because to his ears it almost sounded as if he was about to burst out of his front door and hop on a ship that very moment.

“The next clue!”

Another wry laugh left Livesey’s lips. “So, why don’t you hire someone to go and see? How about that Granger fellow you see every Tuesday?”

“He’s the one who got this schist in the first place.”

“Tut tut, Squire. And you told me about my language.”

A moment of silence passed between the two, before they each erupted with laughter.

“Oh Livesey, just think! We could find this lost treasure like we did before!”

“Are you not rich enough? Are we all not rich enough?”

“Livesey, I am NEVER rich enough, but that’s entirely besides the point. It’s not about the gold. It’s about the adventure! It’s about all four of us, Jim, Smollett, you and I setting off on a grand adventure once again!”

“Hah, I highly doubt that you would be able to convince Smollett to join us, or Jim for that matter. Last I saw, the dear boy was very content at the Benbow Inn taking care of his customers.”

“Tosh! Once we explain it to them I have no doubt in my mind that they will leap at the chance for another adventure, by jove!”

The Squire gesticulated so enthusiastically that he knocked over a goblet of wine and it rolled onto the floor. Livesey’s eyes followed it and never left it as he suddenly realised what had been said. “Pardon me? We? I do hope you mean the royal we.”

“Heaven’s David! Of course I want you to help me with this. They wouldn’t listen to just me alone, would they? Your words hold weight. Jim trusts you.”

“There you go using first names.” Livesey’s eyes snapped back to his friend and a brow slowly raised. “And that is precisely what concerns me. Jim does trust me and I would hate to lead him astray or into danger when he is doing so well now.”

“Nonsense. He’s still young. This is what young people live for! Let us find out, shall we?” With that, Trelawney hopped to his feet and began marching his way to the door. “That is, if you are so convinced he will say no.”

“I guarantee it!”

“How about we wager that?”

“Trelawney, gambling is a slippery slope, you know.” Livesey got to his feet and stomped his way over, before shaking the man’s hand. “Deal.”

“Good man. Let us make haste!”

The pair bolted down the stairs and to the foyer, almost giving the staff a heart attack with their urgency.

“My carriage at once!” The Squire raised a finger triumphantly, if a little melodramatic.

Livesey chimed in to attempt to soften the request. “If you would be so kind.”

It didn’t take them long to hitch the horses to the carriage and bring it around and the two men climbed aboard, Trelawney clutching the rock and parchment, an almost childishly excited expression on his face.

“So, about our wager. I was thinking one thousand pounds should Jim accept!”

“Good gracious,” laughed Livesey, “That’s extravagant of you.”

“Scared you will lose?”

“Not at all, I’m actually more scared that you will be crying into your teacup later due to losing some money to me when I prove you wrong.” The Doctor reclined, a smug sort of grin on his face as he watched Trelawney’s face drop into a petulant frown. “You’ll see! I’ll make you eat your hat!”

“Now now, a monetary wager is fine by my, there’s no need to bring my poor hat into it.” Livesey patted his headgear with a hand. “Besides, I simply couldn’t do that to my poor digestion.”

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It didn’t take them too long to arrive at the Admiral Benbow Inn and once they pulled up, they exited the carriage and Livesey opened the door to the inn with one hand, while the other gestured for the Squire to enter.

Inside, the place was bustling with guests, all sat around laughing and enjoying the fireplace. Jim was no doubt tending the bar area in the adjoining room and so they opened the door and stepped in. The buzz of the room was almost disorienting, and Trelawney grasped hold of Livesey’s coat to keep himself from falling over.

Jim was indeed at the bar, filling up mugs for the guests and wiping with his cloth. He had matured rather strikingly over the 4 years that had past and he had blossomed into a fine-looking young man.

His mother was the first to notice the two men in the doorway and came swooping over. “Squire! Doctor! What brings you here on this fine evening?”

The pair lowered their hat and gave a small, respectful bow to the woman, before Trelawney piped up in response to her question. “We are here to speak to Jim. We have-“

Livesey elbowed him sharply in the side of the head. Had the man been taller, he would have hit his ribs, but since he wasn’t, the head would have to do. “OOCH!” There was no sense in revealing everything to Jim's mother, after all, she could be instantly worried and throw them out. Even if that lost Trelawney the thousand pounds, it was not worth breaking trust.

“Oh, I do beg your pardon, my old friend, it’s just so terribly cramped inside this doorframe!”

“Oh!” Jim’s mother instantly took hold of their sleeves and dragged them towards a corner where a table was free. “I do apologise, I should have at least offered you a seat and a drink first!”

As the pair sat, they waved a hand at her dismissively, before she turned and walked to the bar to sort some drinks for them both. She returned quickly and paced them down in front of them. “Jim said he will only be a short while. As soon as he serves the three customers he has he will be right with you!” She smiled kindly and turned to serve the next customer who had flagged her over.

“Lovely lady,” Commented Trelawney.

“Quite.”

“I say, Livesey?”

“Yes?”

“Why is it that you never married?”

The Doctor was mid-sip of his drink when the Squire asked and he all but choked on it, spraying it back into his mug. After he hammered on his chest with his fist a few times to clear his airways of the liquid, he shot his companion such a stare that was enough to scare the spines off of a cactus.

“I’m simply asking! Why, you could do a lot worse…”

“You cannot be suggesting what I think you are suggesting.”

The Squire’s eyebrows did a suggestive dance across his forehead. “Why not go see if she is free for courting? A man such as yourself shouldn’t be a bachelor all of his life, hm?”

The mere suggestion sent an absolute blaze through Livesey’s blood to the point that his skin was as red as beets and he had to attempt to hide his face behind his hat for fear of combusting on the spot. “Why not go and see if Jim is ready to talk?”

Trelawney was about to rise from his seat when Jim came strolling over, adjusted his glasses and smiled at the pair happily. “Oh, it’s so good to see you both!” It was then he noted Livesey’s condition. “Doctor, are you OK?”

“Perfectly fine, my boy! Simply a momentary flash of heat, nothing more!” He placed his hat in his lap and gestured to the spare seat in front of them.

Jim sat down and sniffed. “So, what can I do for you tonight? My mother said you wished to speak to me.”

“Yes, we have something we…” Livesey was cut off by Trelawney, who was now bouncing in his seat like a puppy waiting for a ball to be thrown.

“Ohhhhh let me, Livesey! Let me tell him, please!”

[graaaaceeliz]

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1881-2 (book release ‘83)

Picking an image for this one was hard, but in the end I chose this early edition version with the map. According to Wikipedia, “The novel was originally serialised from 1881 to 1882 in the children's magazine Young Folks, under the title Treasure Island or the Mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883 by Cassell & Co.”  It is now widely recognised as one of the most fundamental entertainment stories. 

This one goes out to the NTLive Treasure Island discord gang. You know who you are. You should all go check out the tag, there’s some good laughs in there, like the LJS scale. It haunts me. 

No TI post is complete without a shout-out to that pinnacle of adaptive brilliance, The Muppets Treasure Island. The songs, the plot, the outfits, truly an unbeatable cinematic masterpiece. No need to make this book into a film again, really. 

So, what is this book actually about? 

An old sailor (pirate) lodges at an inn on the Bristol Channel. He, to cut out a bunch of detail, dies, and leaves the map to Jim (Jim Jimminy Jim JimJimJim) who takes Gonzo and Rizzo with him goes down to Bristol to hire a crew for an Adventure or pleasure cruise, if you are Rizzo trying to cut the losses which, as one would expect from the genre, is actually mostly pirates, one of whom in the infamous Long John Silver. 

Regarding adaptation for adultier audience, the NTLive version with Arthur Darvil and Patsy Ferran is a deliciously dark and broody take on what the Muppets made into a family favourite. Arthur provides an excellently “ratty” LJS, and Patsy an adventurous if youthfully naïve Jim. Definitely worth a watch. I even wrote fic about it. 

Why did I choose this book, then, if all I’ve talked about is the film-TV-stage adaptations? Because it’s foundational. Treasure Island is famous for a reason: it just actually is That Good. Take it on holiday with you sometime.  

[fuzzysparrow]

Who wrote 'The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys'?

'The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys' was the original title of a story about pirates and a treasure hunt on a tropical isle by Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1940). Stevenson aimed the story at children and started publishing chapters in the 'Young Folks' magazine between 1881 and 1882 under the title 'The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys'. Once all the chapters were written, it was printed as a book under the title 'Treasure Island' in 1883 by Cassell & Co. To date, it remains one of the most dramatised and adapted novels in history.

The story begins at the Admiral Benbow Inn in Bristol. Stevenson also mentioned other Bristol buildings, including the Spyglass Tavern, which may be the present-day Hole in the Wall pub, and the Llandoger Trow, a historic public house dating from 1664. 'Treasure Island' is about Jim Hawkins, a young boy who goes in search of treasure after finding a treasure map. After setting off in search of treasure that Captain Flint, an old pirate, left buried after his death, Jim faces a shipwreck, a pirate mutiny, and sword fights.

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on 13th November 1850 and died on 3rd December 1894 in Samoa. He spent much of his childhood sick in bed with lung concerns and spent a lot of his time writing. Whilst he studied law at Edinburgh University, he chose to become an author instead. Some of his best-known works are 'Treasure Island', 'Kidnapped' and 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'.

[compulsivecartographer]

Treasure Island, c. 1881.

The original map drawn for the book was lost in the mail on the way to the publisher.  Robert Louis Stevenson had to redraw it by referencing what he’d already. My date up there is estimated at the point when it was first published as a serial. I’m not entirely sure when he actually redrew the map. It could’ve been as late as 1883. I must also note that the date of 1750 is for, you know, the story. Read more about it here.

[allbestnet]

Top 100 Books 1850-1900

Anna Karenina (1877) by Leo Tolstoy

Crime and Punishment (1866) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Les Miserables (1862) by Victor Hugo

War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy

The Brothers Karamazov (1880) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Great Expectations (1861) by Charles Dickens

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) by Lewis Carroll

Heart of Darkness (1899) by Joseph Conrad

The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar Wilde

Middlemarch (1874) by George Eliot

The Idiot (1869) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker

The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells

Little Women (1868) by Louisa May Alcott

Madame Bovary (1857) by Gustave Flaubert

Leaves of Grass (1855) by Walt Whitman

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

Black Beauty (1877) by Anna Sewell

Treasure Island (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Moby-Dick (1851) by Herman Melville

Bleak House (1853) by Charles Dickens

Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) by Thomas Hardy

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Time Machine (1895) by H.G. Wells

The Woman in White (1860) by Wilkie Collins

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) by Jules Verne

David Copperfield (1850) by Charles Dickens

Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) by Thomas Hardy

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) by Mark Twain

North and South (1855) by Elizabeth Gaskell

Three Men in a Boat (1889) by Jerome K. Jerome

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) by Jules Verne

Jungle Book (1894) by Rudyard Kipling

Scarlet Letter (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jude the Obscure (1895) by Thomas Hardy

Thus Spake Zarathustra (1885) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Little Dorrit (1857) by Charles Dickens

Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins

The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) by Thomas Hardy

Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) by Mark Twain

Sister Carrie (1900) by Theodore Dreiser

Lorna Doone (1869) by R.D. Blackmore

Portrait of a Lady (1881) by Henry James

Hunger (1890) by Knut Hamsun

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) by Jules Verne

Sentimental Education (1869) by Gustave Flaubert

Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum

Kidnapped (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson

Germinal (1885) by Emile Zola

Lord Jim (1900) by Joseph Conrad

Turn of the Screw (1898) by Henry James

The Island of Dr Moreau (1896) by H.G. Wells

Villette (1853) by Charlotte Bronte

Mill on the Floss (1860) by George Eliot

A Study in Scarlet (1887) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev

The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) by Leo Tolstoy

Our Mutual Friend (1865) by Charles Dickens

Notes from the Underground (1864) by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Possessed (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Mysterious Island (1874) by Jules Verne

Walden (1854) by Henry David Thoreau

Prince and the Pauper (1881) by Mark Twain

Through the Looking Glass (1871) by Lewis Carroll

Hard Times (1854) by Charles Dickens

King Solomon's Mines (1885) by H. Rider Haggard

Beyond Good and Evil (1886) by Friedrich Nietzsche

Adam Bede (1859) by George Eliot

The Sign of Four (1890) by Arthur Conan Doyle

Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870) by Charles Dickens

Invisible Man (1897) by H.G. Wells

Pinocchio (1883) by Carlo Collodi

Bel-Ami (1885) by Guy de Maupassant

She: A History of Adventure (1887) by H. Rider Haggard

Demons (1872) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ben-Hur (1880) by Lew Wallace

Barchester Towers (1857) by Anthony Trollope

Flatland (1884) by Edwin A. Abbott

Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) by Mark Twain

Interpretation of Dreams (1899) by Sigmund Freud

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1892) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler

The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Way We Live Now (1875) by Anthony Trollope

Daniel Deronda (1876) by George Eliot

Tom Brown's Schooldays (1857) by Thomas Hughes

Quo Vadis (1895) by Henryk Sienkiewicz

Bartleby, the Scrivener (1853) by Herman Melville

Golden Bough (1890) by Sir James George Frazer

Return of the Native (1878) by Thomas Hardy

News from Nowhere (1890) by William Morris

Gray's Anatomy (1858) by Henry Gray

Cranford (1853) by Elizabeth Gaskell

Washington Square (1880) by Henry James

El filibusterismo (1891) by Jose Rizal

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 (1888) by Edward Bellamy

On Liberty (1859) by John Stuart Mill

Capital (1894) by Karl Marx

House of the Seven Gables (1851) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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La isla del tesoro (Treasure Island) es una novela de aventuras escrita por el escocés Robert Louis Stevenson, publicada en libro en Londres en 1883 (publicada originalmente por entregas en la revista infantil Young Folks, entre 1881 y 1882 con el título de The Sea Cook, or Treasure Island). Esta obra ha sido fuente de inspiración en el cine, en la televisión, en la literatura, en cómics e incluso en videojuegos. La novela adopta un tono crítico y una reflexión moral del protagonista hacia el dinero y la ambición. Este libro forma parte del catálogo digital de libros de dominio público de la Biblioteca Popular Monte Chingolo, los cuales pueden ser descargados de manera gratuita de la página web de la institución en formato .pdf para poder ser leídos en cualquier dispositivo electrónico. Los libros de dominio público son aquellos escritos y creados sin ningún tipo de licencia o escritos bajo licencias de dominio público, también lo son los libros que nunca han estado bajo derechos de autor o los libros en los que los derechos de autor han expirado. Descarga Gratuita: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YLzS1EmyeD3cimXV0osgd7Y4VZiZwnHS

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TREASURE ISLAND - FULL AudioBook by Robert Louis Stevenson - Adventure / Pirate Fiction

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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of “buccaneers and buried gold”. First published as a book on May 23, 1883, it was originally serialized in the children’s magazine Young Folks between 1881–82 under…

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Blockbuster Wyoming Discovery

by Peter Huntoon

Heritage Auctions is offering the monster discovery note illustrated from The First National Bank of Guernsey, Wyoming, in their 2020 FUN sale.

All 400 sheets of the $5 Guernsey notes that were printed were sent to the bank on Aug. 11, 1900. A highlight of this note from the top of the first sheet is the bold signatures of Harry G. Hay, cashier, and Henry G. Hay, president.

Back of the Guernsey note sporting a modified territorial seal.

The First National Bank of Guernsey was organized April 10, 1900, chartered April 20, and liquidated May 1, 1901. It was the shortest-lived note-issuing bank in the state. The bank had no predecessor or successor.

During its short life of a year and a few days, the bankers received a total of 3,048 $5, $10 and $20 brown backs, to maintain a circulation of $25,000. The bank ranks as having received the fifth smallest number of notes for a Wyoming bank.

This amounted to 400 sheets of 5-5-5-5 and 362 sheets of 10-10-10-20s. These total $26,100 so $1,100 had been redeemed before the bank was liquidated proving that the notes were put into active circulation as indicated on their 1900 report of condition.

All 400 sheets, the total amount printed, of $5s were sent from the Comptroller’s office as the first shipment to the bank on Aug. 11, 1900. The 10-10-10-20 sheets followed staggered in shipments inclusive of Aug. 14, 1900 and May 4, 1901. The last of the 10-10-10-20s was sent three days after the bank was liquidated because the liquidation papers had not arrived in Washington yet.

There are two very interesting features on this discovery note, the coat-of-arms on its back and, of course, the banker’s signatures.

The coat-of-arms is not the state seal, rather it is a modified territorial seal. Wyoming was granted statehood in 1890. However, the timely adoption of a state seal by the legislature was delayed owing to a prank where a drawing of a nude woman was substituted for a more decorous seal that had come out of the legislative committee charged with creating it on its way to the governor’s office for his signature. The bruhaha that ensued caused the adoption of a state seal to be delayed for three years. You can read that tale in Huntoon (2008).

An engraving of the state seal by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing did not become available until 1896 so the modified territorial seal was used in its stead on all the Series of 1875 and early Series of 1882 state notes. The modification consisted of the addition of the 1890 statehood year inside the top of the shield.

The BEP never did make Series of 1875 backplates for Wyoming with the state seal despite the fact that that last bank to receive those notes did so through 1901.

The Series of 1882 brown backplates with the state seal were certified near the end of 1896; however, by then the BEP had a stockpile of preprinted 1882 backs with the modified territorial seal so they worked through those first.

The $5 Guernsey note was printed in 1900, revealing that they were still working down the stock of obsolete $5 backs. This came as a surprise to me because I thought the changeover to the state seal would have occurred much sooner. However, only three banks in Wyoming were issuing $5 brown backs so the demand for them was small. The other banks were Douglas (3556) and Cheyenne (2652).

The most striking thing on the note are the strong bank signatures. They are Henry G. Hay, president, and Harry G. Hay, cashier. Harry was the president’s son, whose formal name was Henry G. Hay, Jr. Their middle initial “G” stood for Gurley.

They also used Henry and Harry on their organization certificate, as well as on their report of condition that was listed in the 1900 annual report of the Comptroller of the Currency.

The similarities between their signatures are striking. It almost appears that both were applied by the father as an expedient when the sheets arrived. However, Mark Drengson located a copy of Henry G. Hay Jr.’s draft registration card and his signature on it matches well that found on the note.

Henry G. Hay, Jr.’s World War I draft registration card with his signature that is an excellent match for that found on the Guernsey note.

Henry Hay became a prominent and wealthy banker in Cheyenne. He was born Oct. 31, 1847, and raised in Vincennes, Indiana, and graduated from the Eastman Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in 1866.

He went west to Readsville, Missouri, where he served as superintendent of a lead mine for four years, starting at the age of 19. From there he went to Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory, as a government surveyor, while also getting into the sheep business in a partnership with John Thomas on land nine miles south of Cheyenne. The sheep outfit was sold to Wyoming Senator Francis G. Warren in 1883.

About 1875, he also became a partner in Whipple and Hay, a large grocery enterprise that served as outfitter for the Black Hills and ranches. That business also was sold in 1883.

From 1883 to 1894, Whipple and Hay organized and operated the Laramie River Cattle Co. This along with his previous sheep operation were high-risk ventures that proved to be money sinks.

Relevant to this tale, Hay became a principal organizer of The Stock Growers National Bank of Cheyenne, which opened Dec. 19, 1881, first serving as cashier until 1894, then as president until 1903. The Stock Growers bank survived the panic of 1893 and eventually recovered during Hay’s tenure to become the largest bank in the region.

Note from The Stock Growers National Bank of Cheyenne with Henry G. Hay’s distinctive signature.

Hay also had a political life while in Cheyenne, wherein he was elected State Treasurer in 1894 and 1902.

Hay left the bank in 1903 at age 56 to become assistant treasurer of U. S. Steel Co. in New York City, where he worked under treasurer Richard Trimble. Trimble had solicited him for the position, having known and befriending him while both were running cattle in Wyoming before Hay’s banking days. Hay died Aug. 18, 1919, at 71, while still a resident of New York City.

Hay’s son, Henry G. Hay, Jr., was born on June 30, 1876. He became a lawyer and entered banking with his father in Cheyenne. Junior’s claim to fame in national banking, besides being involved in the Guernsey bank, was that he was a principal in the organization of The Wind River National Bank of Shoshoni and served as its first cashier in 1906. He went by his formal name in that endeavor. That bank was sold to The First National Bank of Shoshoni in 1908. Harry had left the bank by then and went east, eventually becoming president of the Gary State Bank in Indiana.

Harry had a son, Henry G. Hay III, born in 1900, who was too young to have been involved in any of this tale.

Guernsey was founded in 1900 by the Burlington Railroad, which was being built northwestward along the North Platte River and had entered Wyoming from Nebraska in 1900. It is obvious that Henry Hay saw an opportunity there and wanted to get in on the ground floor with a bank. A post office had just been established and the town was starting to take shape. Neither the town or bank flourished so the bank was folded a year later.

Within a few years, the town served as a shipping point for iron ore that was mined at the Sunrise mines at Hartville six miles to the north on a spur line. The area also looked favorable for farming but cattle ranching continued to dominate the agricultural sector.

The town of Guernsey was named for Charles. A. Guernsey, a cattle rancher who also founded the Wyoming Railway and Iron Company to exploit the iron deposits in the area.

The Guernsey breed of dairy cattle had nothing to do with Guernsey or the town. Rather, the breed originated on the Island of Guernsey, the northernmost island in the Channel Islands between England and France.

Guernsey is located halfway between Casper and Cheyenne astride the North Platte River, which flows toward the southeast there. The Oregon trail paralleled the southern bank of the river so today the major tourist attraction in Guernsey is deep wagon wheel ruts worn several feet into a resistant ledge of rock that caps a low bluff along the south bank of the river.

The emigrants had to climb over the bluff as they passed the future townsite in their Conestoga wagons drawn by oxen, mules and heavy draft horses. Some 400,000 migrants used the trail between the mid-1830s through late 1860s as they headed west to new lives.

Another attraction is Register Cliffs, now a state park. The cliffs are located southeast of town, also on the south side of the river where the immigrants carved their names or initials into sandstone outcrops. Historic Fort Laramie, an army outpost that protected the trail and later was involved in the Indian Wars, lies 13 miles to the southeast along the trail.

US 26 and the Burlington Northern Railroad now follow that route through eastern Wyoming, except both lie north of the river. The highway passes through the center of Guernsey. The town has a population of about 1,150 people.

Guernsey is situated in low rolling hills with the Great Plains stretching off to the east and the Laramie Mountain range on the horizon to the southwest.

A major facility located at Guernsey is Camp Guernsey, a military training center with operations in artillery, bombing, personnel and equipment airdrops, fixed-wing and helicopter aircraft, etc.

There now remain only three note-issuing banks out of 51 in Wyoming for which notes are unreported. They are The Cheyenne National Bank (3416), The First National Bank of Sundance (4343), and The Wind River National Bank of Shoshoni (8232), the latter being the bank that Henry G. Hay, Jr. helped organize.

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the first book I read from start to finish

November 13, 1850

On this day in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is born in Scotland.

Stevenson studied civil engineering and law, but decided to pursue a career as a writer and began publishing essays and travel pieces. His decision alienated his parents, who expected him to follow the family trade of lighthouse keeping. The family wasn’t reconciled for years.

In 1876, Stevenson fell in love with an American woman named Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who was separated from her husband. When she returned to San Francisco in 1879, Stevenson followed her. The couple married and returned to Scotland in 1880. Stevenson published a collection of essays in 1881, and Treasure Island, one of his most popular books, in 1883. In 1885, he published the first version of the popular nursery-rhyme book A Child’s Garden of Verse. In 1846, he published Kidnapped, and in 1886 he published Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

In 1888, the family set off for the South Seas, seeking a healthier climate for Stevenson’s tuberculosis. The family finally settled in Samoa, where Stevenson died in 1894.

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Treasure Island is an adventure novel by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, narrating a tale of "buccaneers and buried gold". Its influence is enormous on popular perceptions of pirates, including such elements as treasure maps marked with an "X", schooners, the Black Spot, tropical islands, and one-legged seamen bearing parrots on their shoulders.  Treasure Island is traditionally considered a coming-of-age story and is noted for its atmosphere, characters, and action. It is one of the most frequently dramatized of all novels. It was originally serialized in the children's magazine Young Folks between 1881 through 1882 under the title Treasure Island, or the mutiny of the Hispaniola, credited to the pseudonym "Captain George North". It was first published as a book on 14 November 1883, by Cassell & Co.