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Title: Crooked Trails and Straight
Author: William MacLeod Raine D. C. Hutchison
Release Date: October 13, 2008 [EBook #26911]
Language: English
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CROOKED TRAILS AND STRAIGHT
BY WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE
AUTHOR OF BRAND BLOTTERS, BUCKY O'CONNOR, MAVERICKS, WYOMING, RIDGWAY OF MONTANA, A TEXAS RANGER, etc.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY D. C. HUTCHISON
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1913, by G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
Crooked Trails and Straight
CONTENTS
PART I
I. Following a Crooked Trail 9 II. Camping with Old Man Trouble 23 III. At the End of the Road 33 IV. The Cullisons 49 V. Laura London 60 VI. A Bear Trap 74 VII. Bad Medicine 84 VIII. A Rehearsed Quarrel 94 IX. Eavesdropping 110 X. "Stick to Your Saddle" 131
PART II
LUCK
I. At the Round Up Club 143 II. Luck Meets an Old Ac