Illustrated By Frederic Remington

Author Of “Pony Tracks”

First published in 1898

CONTENTS

CROOKED TRAILS

HOW THE LAW GOT INTO THE CHAPARRAL

THE BLUE QUAIL OF THE CACTUS

A SERGEANT OF THE ORPHAN TROOP

THE SPIRIT OF MAHONGUI

THE ESSENTIALS AT FORT ADOBE

MASSAI'S CROOKED TRAIL

JOSHUA GOODENOUGH'S OLD LETTER

CRACKER COWBOYS OF FLORIDA

THE STRANGE DAYS THAT CAME TO JIMMIE FRIDAY

THE SOLEDAD GIRLS

ILLUSTRATIONS

01 Texas Rangers Holding up Chapparal Bandits

02 A Bearer of Civilization

03 The Charge Anp Killing of Padre Jarante

04 We Struck Some Boggy Ground

05 Prisoners Drawing Their Beans

06 How the Law Got Into The Chaparral

07 Luncheon in the Desert

08 Supper in the Corral

09 On the Shore of The Tank—morning

10 Running Blue Quail

11 Too Big Game for Number Six

12 Mile After Mile Rushed the Little Column

13 The Horses Assembled in a Side Canyon

14 The Two Men Climbed Slowly

15 Brave Cheyennes Running Through the Frosty Hills

16 Through the Smoke Sprang The Daring Soldier

17 This Time the Air Grew Clear

18 This Was a Fatal Embarquation

19 The Omen of The Little Blue Birds

20 Ye Spirit Dog Strode from Ye Darkness

21 The Advance

22 Horse Gymnastics

23 Jumping on a Horse

24 A Tame Horse

25 The Pursuit

26 The Attack on The Cossack

27 Natastale

28 The Arrest of The Scout

29 Scouts

30 The Chief of Scouts

31 Not Much Fitted for Bush-ranging

32 The March of Rogers's Rangers

33 The Storming of Ticonderoga

34 Paddling the Wounded British Officer

35 The Capture of The French Grenadier

36 About Four Dollars Worth of Clothes Between Them

37 A Cracker Cowboy

38 Fighting over a Stolen Herd

39 In Wait for an Enemy

40 A Bit of Cow Country

41 Cowboys Wrestling a Bull

42 The Lawyer Had Become a Voyager

43 It is Strange How One Can Accustom Himself to 'pack'

44 Down the River on a Golden Morning

45 A Real Camp

46 Rough Water

47 The Indians Used 'setting-poles'

48 Trying Moments

49 The Half-wild Cattle Came Down from The Hills

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