By Edgar Rice Burroughs
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(Part 1)

Cover art by Frank E. Schoonover

I have never told this story. I know the human mind will not believe what it cannot understand. I cannot explain what happened to me. I can only tell of the ten years my dead body lay in a cave in Arizona.

My name is John Carter. I am from the state of Virginia. At the end of the Civil War I found myself without a home, without money, and without a job. I decided the best plan was to search for gold.

I spent a...