The Broncho Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers Or, The Capture of the Smugglers on the Rio Grande

"By George!" exclaimed Billie, as he advanced to meet Pedro, "you surely did come right in the nick of time. I thought I'd have to become dog-meat, just to keep the others out o...

Mustering his band, the captain of the rurales quickly formed his plan of attack. Ten of the company were to seize the two boats at the mouth of the creek and take their positio...

An hour later Billie and Pancho Villa stood before Gen. Sanchez. It was then ten o'clock and the sun would arise shortly before five. Neither Billie nor Villa had any doubt that...

It was not until two hours after daylight that the complete result of Villa's strategy was apparent. At that hour the battle was over and the Federals took possession of the cit...

The _hacienda_ which Billie had discovered in his search for the lost pack mule was located about a mile from the Rio Grande on the Mexican side of the river, and appeared to be...

Fifteen minutes later, just as the last rays of daylight were fading away, three horsemen were seen to dash out of the Federal lines and head straight for the intrenchments whic...

Feeling assured that the trap was well baited with the forgotten guns, Capt. Peak determined to omit no detail which would insure the complete capture of the gun-runners when th...

By the time the boys reached the little cluster of adobe buildings, the rain was descending in torrents, and, in spite of the tropical surroundings, the air was much too cold to...

The soft purling of water was the first sound which greeted Billie's ear when he was again able to collect his thoughts. He was lying upon his back and looking up into darkness....

When the boys reported for duty to Lieut. Grant at seven o'clock they found that conditions across the river had developed rapidly. The revolutionists had taken possession of Pr...

Of course both Donald and Billie had heard of the Texas Rangers, that daring body of the Texas militia which has done so much in maintaining law and order along the Mexican fron...

"Crack!" went Broncho Billie's revolver and the silver dollar which had been tossed into the air as a target went spinning into the yellow waters of the Rio Grande as a result o...

"Who's showing the white feather?" demanded Billie, with much spirit. "I'm just as anxious as anyone to put a stop to lawlessness; but you wouldn't call any man a coward, would...

"By George!" he finally exclaimed, "I believe I've got it. You see these hills form a little ridge leading to the creek. Somewhere in here there is a cave which opens onto the c...

Adrian did not have to lead his captive far, for, when he reached the place where his horse was waiting for him, he saw the others returning. They had become concerned at his de...

After what seemed an age to Billie, although the time actually consumed could not have been more than fifteen minutes, the boat reached the shore at a spot with which he was mos...

"What can I do for you?" again asked Villa, as the boys did not at once reply, not knowing exactly what to say, nor how to say it in the presence of a third person.

It was a couple of hours later and the Broncho Rider Boys had just seen the rurales ride away toward Presidio del Norte with their prisoners. The two hours had been spent in a v...

"It sure does seem good to feel your pony between your knees," exclaimed Donald, after they had galloped along a couple of miles at a lively rate, the horses themselves setting...

Five minutes later they were seated before a breakfast table that seemed to have been fixed for their special benefit, for not only did the bill of fare contain ham and eggs, bu...

In order to explain Guadalupe's presence at the grated window in the top of Billie's prison-house, it is necessary to recount the happenings at the Hacienda del Rio and vicinity...

Promptly at the appointed hour--the darkest hour in the whole twenty-four, the hour before dawn--Pancho Villa appeared at the door of General Sanchez's headquarters. Almost simu...

But quick as were the Mexicans, the Broncho Rider Boys were quicker! Evading the outstretched hands which would hold them, the boys dashed for the door, striking right and left...

As the bullets whizzed overhead and all about the boat, and as Billie saw the oarsman pitch forward, he had two thoughts in his mind--one to keep from being hit by the bullets,...

Overhead he could hear the sound of stamping feet and the sound of shots. After a couple of minutes there was silence, which was more ominous than the sound of fighting.

It might have been expected that, as Billie plunged into the water, his chief thought would have been regarding his safety. But such is the vagary of the human mind, that safety...

Midway between the Hacienda del Rio and the _hacienda_ of Don Pablo Ojeda, near the source of the little mountain stream across which the Broncho Rider Boys chased the horse thi...

So sudden had been Billie's assault and escape that it was several minutes before those in and about the _hacienda_ could understand what had occurred. But when they did at last...

Guadalupe was a girl of spirit. Through her veins flowed the blood of fighting ancestors, and, when she felt herself so suddenly seized upon, she had no mind to give up her free...

Despite the escape of Don Rafael, the expedition had been a great success. All the other gun-runners, with the possible exception of the one whom Adrian knocked into the river,...