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Starlight Ranch, by Charles King
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Title: Starlight Ranch and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier
Author: Charles King
Release Date: July 27, 2008 [EBook #26137]
Language: English
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STARLIGHT RANCH
AND
OTHER STORIES OF ARMY LIFE ON THE FRONTIER.
BY
CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U.S.A.,
AUTHOR OF "MARION'S FAITH," "THE COLONEL'S DAUGHTER," ETC.
PHILADELPHIA: J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY. 1891.
Copyright, 1890, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.
CONTENTS.
STARLIGHT RANCH
WELL WON; OR, FROM THE PLAINS TO "THE POINT"
FROM "THE POINT" TO THE PLAINS
THE WORST MAN IN THE TROOP
VAN
STARLIGHT RANCH.
We were crouching round the bivouac fir