title: The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas Legend
author: Mayne Reid
description: Mayne Reid was an Irish American novelist and the author of adventure tales in a similar vein to Robert Louis Stevenson. Born in 1818, he wrote nearly seventy-five novels that became favorites of a wide range of readers, including future president Theodore Roosevelt and author Vladimir Nabokov. The Headless Horseman was among his most well-known works. Reid died in London, at the age of 65, in 1883.
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  Falling For
  
  
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  Petticoat Physician
  
  
  
  
  
  By Clari Dees
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Copyright 2019 Clari Dees
  
  
  Published by: Forget Me Not Romances, a division of Winged Publications
  
  
  Cover Art: Cynthia Hickey
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are
  the product of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is
  coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## I
  
  Dakota Territory
  
  
  Spring, 1887
  
  
  
  
  
  “Lady, you gonna get on my coach or not?”
  
  
  Charley’s gaze jerked from the mud-splattered stagecoach to the owner of the
  gruff voice.
  
  
  Yesterday’s coach driver had been a wizened old gentleman with sparse white
  whiskers and a gap-toothed smile, but the man checking the harnesses of the
  six-horse team was no more wizened than a full-grown oak. And the thick,
  reddish-brown beard covering the lower half of his face emphasized the annoyed
  scowl 