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Title: Brand Blotters
Author: William MacLeod Raine
Illustrator: Clarence Rowe
Release Date: December 7, 2008 [EBook #27436]
Language: English
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BRAND BLOTTERS
By
WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE
Author Of
Wyoming, Bucky O'Connor, Mavericks, A Texas Ranger, Ridgway Of Montana, Etc.
Illustrations By
CLARENCE ROWE
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1909, by J. B. Lippincott Co.
Copyright, 1911, by Street & Smith
Copyright, 1912, by G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
Brand Blotters
TO FRANK N. SPINDLER
In Memory of Certain Sunday Afternoon Tramps Long Ago, During Which We Solved the Problems of the Nation
CONTENTS
PART I
I A Crossed Trail 11 II Brand Blotting 18 III An Accusation 35 IV The Man with the Chihuahua Hat 49 V T