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BLAZED TRAIL STORIES
OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR
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[Illustration: Thomas Fogarty "FOR A MOMENT HE POISED ERECT IN THE GREAT CALM OF THE PUBLIC PERFORMER." (Page 6)]
BLAZED TRAIL STORIES
AND STORIES OF THE WILD LIFE
BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE
NEW YORK McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMIV
Copyright 1904, by Stewart Edward White Published September, 1904
Copyright 1899, 1902, 1903, by The S. S. McClure Co. Copyright 1901, by The Century Company. Copyright 1899, 1900, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright 1902, by Perry Mason Company. Copyright 1901, by Truth Company.
CONTENTS
PART I BLAZED TRAIL STORIES
The Riverman 3
The Foreman 22
The Scaler 39
The River-Boss 58
The Fifth Way 73
The Life of the Winds of Heaven 83
PART II STORIES OF THE WILD LIFE
The Girl Who Got Rattled 111
Billy's Tenderfoot 132
The Two Cartridges 153
The Race 180
The Saving Grace 198
The Prospector 222
The Girl in Red 246
BLAZED TRAIL STORIES AND STORIES OF THE WILD LIFE
I
THE RIVERMAN
I first met him one Fourth of July afternoon in the middle eighties. The sawdust streets and high board sidewalks of the lumber town were filled to the brim with people. The permanent population, dressed in the stiffness of its Sunday best, escorted gingham wives or sweethearts; a dozen outsiders like myself tried not to be too conspicuous in a city smartness; but the great multitude was composed o