Ralph Henry Barbour
Born	1870
Died	1944 (aged 74)
Language	English
Genre	Adventure, Sports Fiction
Nationality	American
Gender	Male

Ralph Henry Barbour

Ralph Henry Barbour was an American author who primarily wrote in English.

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