Gaspar the Gaucho, by Captain Mayne Reid.
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This is another excellent book by the inventor of the Wild West genre.
Set in South America, in Paraguay, the hero and his band of friends have
many an adventure, just in the course of one voyage, or undertaking.
They frequently get themselves into dangerous and risky situations, but
always by their superior bush-craft manage to get themselves out of them
after having practically died, or at least having seen their horses die.
This is a good book, a vintage one from the Victorian era. The author
learnt his bushcraft during the American-Mexican War, and has given us
several books whose subject and manner arose from what he learnt in that
war.
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GASPAR THE GAUCHO, BY CAPTAIN MAYNE REID.