# Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks by H. Irving Hancock has 47,292 words.

## At a glance

- **Author:** [H. Irving Hancock](https://musael.com/books/authors/h-irving-hancock.md) (1868–1922)
- **Genre:** adventure
- **Readers:** middle grade

## How long it takes to read

- **Words:** 47,292
- **Reading time:** 3 h 9 min (at 250 words a minute)
- **Listening time:** 5 h 5 min (audiobook pace, 155 words a minute)

| Reading speed | Whole book | At 30 minutes a day |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 200 wpm | 3 h 56 min | 8 days |
| 250 wpm | 3 h 9 min | 7 days |
| 300 wpm | 2 h 38 min | 6 days |

## Read or listen

Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks is in the public domain: these editions are free to download, read and share.

- Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27680

## Counted from the text

Automated estimates from the selected Project Gutenberg text; it may include a preface or notes.

- Words in the text: 47,292
- Chapters: 24
- Dialogue: 44% of the words are inside quotation marks
- Average sentence: 11.9 words

## Where the numbers come from

The word count comes from the sources below.

- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27680 (word count)
- https://openlibrary.org/works/OL40858811W
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27680

Checked on 2026-10-27. Page counts change from edition to edition.

Source: https://musael.com/books/uncle-sams-boys-in-the-ranks