Category: Novels
This extract from McClelland’s report, later appearing as preface to some fourteen volumes of Pacific Railroad explorations, evidently acted as a direct challenge to the pioneering spirit of a country that was young. Following immediately upon its publication, as if in a conce...
This extract from McClelland’s report, later appearing as preface to some fourteen volumes of Pacific Railroad explorations, evidently acted as a direct challenge to the pioneer...
2. Part 2Lassiter grinned and turned suddenly toward the door. It occurred to Carver that the youth was starting forth to retrieve that twenty-dollar reserve which was cached in the dres...
3. Part 3“Then maybe he was mistaken about how you felt,” said Carver. “He gave me my instructions straight enough. ‘If you strike trouble down there just go right to the Half Diamond H...
4. Part 4“I’ll have a little deal on this fall after round-up,” he said. “And I’d like to have you cut in with me, provided you don’t hang out at Crowfoot’s. I’m not over-squeamish and t...
5. Part 5Far up the valley, a mere speck in the distance, the Half Diamond H wagon led the way while the others trailed at intervals. Two hundred riders, the personnel probably including...
6. Part 6“It won’t leave you short-handed now if Bart Lassiter and I lay off,” Carver suggested. “You lend me a team and wagon from the home place and we’ll snatch out those fences for w...
7. Part 7“They’d sign up quick enough,” Younger stated. “Jump at the chance in fact. But if the owners themselves figure they can’t prorate the expense of a trip like that and come out a...
8. Part 8They pulled up their horses, having returned to the point of their original stand. Judd Armstrong seemed never to have shifted in his seat and the emaciated horses drooped conte...
9. Part 9“Thank you, son,” she said. “You’ve done us a big favor. This is better ground than any we’ve crossed through. I was beginning to be just a mite worried for fear we mightn’t fin...
10. Part 10A few months back she had resided in an isolated line camp on Turkey Creek with no other habitation within a dozen miles. Now she was blocked in on all sides by neighbors; Mrs....
11. Part 11“There’s been one shooting in the family within the past few hours. She despises Noll and thinks considerable of me. Why should she feel worse about my shooting him than about h...
12. Part 12First he studied the character of Noll’s retreat,--a depression similar to the one which afforded him shelter, a trifle deeper perhaps and of slightly greater area. But Noll cou...
13. Part 13“That’s how I came to leave home,” he resumed. “If ever you note any symptoms of madness in one of your pupils, why instead of chastizing him regardless, I’d suggest that you in...
14. Part 14“And right after that he started connecting you and me up with it,” Carver said. “He’s been exerting himself to inquire among folks about your horse being found up near where yo...
15. Part 15The girl found the fair a mixture of the old way and the new. The exhibits were those of the settlers but the sports and amusements were those of an earlier day, a condition whi...