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Copper Streak Trail, by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
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Title: Copper Streak Trail
Author: Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Release Date: December 31, 2004 [eBook #14545]
Language: English
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COPPER STREAK TRAIL
by
EUGENE MANLOVE RHODES
Author of Stepsons Of Light, Good Men And True, West Is West, etc.
1917
TO THE READER OF THIS BOOK FROM ONE WHO SAW LIFE UNSTEADILY AND IN PART
CHAPTER I
The stage line swung aside in a huge half-circle, rounding the northern end of the Comobabi Range and swinging far out to skirt the foothills. Mr. Peter Johnson had never been to Silverbell: his own country lay far to the north, beyond the Gila. But he knew that Silverbell was somewhere east of the Comobabi, not north; and confidently struck out to find a short cut through the hills. From Silverbell a spur of railroad ran down to Redrock. Mr. Johnson's thought was to entrain himself for Tucson.
The Midnight horse reached along in a brisk,