Ralph Henry Barbour (1870–1944) was an American author best known for his sports and adventure novels for young readers. His works, including “The Half-Back” and “Left Tackle Thayer,” captured the spirit of youth and sportsmanship in early 20th-century America.
Short Stories written by Ralph Henry Barbour
- A College Santa Clause 1902 - Satherwaite, '02, threw his overcoat across the broad mahogany table, regardless of the silver and cut-glass furnishings, shook the melting… ... Read more
- A Death-Bed Confession 1902 - And so you think I shall go to heaven when I die, sir! And why? Because I have spent my… ... Read more
- A Race with the Waters 1902 - Roy Milford pulled the brim of his faded sombrero further over his blue eyes and urged Scamp into a trot,… ... Read more
- Acting for the Best 1902 - I have no patience with people who talk that kind of nonsense about marrying for love and the like. For… ... Read more
- Barring the Way 1902 - I don't know how she could have done it. I couldn't have done it myself. At least, I don't think… ... Read more
- Coals of Fire 1902 - All my life I've lived on a barge. My father, he worked a barge from London to Tonbridge, and 'twas… ... Read more
- Grandsire Triples 1902 - I was promised to William, in a manner of speaking, close upon seven year. What I mean to say is,… ... Read more
- Guilty 1902 - It was my first place and my last, and I don't think we should have got on in business as… ... Read more
- Her Marriage Lines 1902 - I I had never been out to service before, and I thought it a grand thing when I got a… ... Read more
- His First Assignment 1902 - Tom Collins read again the inscription on the directory at the foot of the stairs: Room 36 City Editor and… ... Read more
- McTurkle, the Band 1902 - We had had hard luck at Harvard all that fall. First Phinney, our 208-pound left guard, dislocated his shoulder in… ... Read more
- One Way of Love 1902 - You don't believe in coincidences, which is only another way of saying that all things work together for good to… ... Read more
- Patsy 1902 - He made his first appearance one afternoon a week or so before the Fall Handicap Meeting. Mosher, Fosgill, Alien, Ronimus,… ... Read more
- Pemberton’s Fluke 1902 - For an hour and a half Yale and Princeton had been battling on the gridiron; for an hour and a… ... Read more
- Son and Heir 1902 - Sir Jasper was always the best of masters to me and to all of us; and he had that kind… ... Read more
- The Dub 1902 - "BRIGGS, Bayard Newlyn, Hammondsport, Ill., I L, H 24." That's the way the catalogue put it. Mostly, though, he was… ... Read more
- The New Boy at Hilltop 1902 - I Hilltop School closed its fall term with just ninety-five students; it opened again two weeks later, on the third… ... Read more
- The Proving of Jerry 1902 - "I'm awfully sorry," said Ned Gaynor earnestly, "but it isn't as though you had been blackballed, Jerry." "I don't see… ... Read more
- The Seventh Tutor 1902 - "I'm being perfectly honest with you," said dad. "I tell you frankly that I don't expect you to succeed, Mr.… ... Read more
- The Triple Play 1902 - "If they hadn't gone and made Don captain last year," said Satterlee, 2d, plaintively. "That's where the trouble is." "How… ... Read more
- The Triumph of “Curly” 1902 - "Curly" sat with head in hands, elbows on desk, and eyes fixed unseeingly on the half-opened door. The afternoon sunlight… ... Read more