The Warden of the Plains, and Other Stories of Life in the Canadian North-west

THE WARDEN OF THE PLAINS
AND OTHER STORIES OF LIFE IN THE CANADIAN NORTH-WEST
JOHN MACLEAN, M.A., PH.D.,
Author of Canadian Savage Folk, etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY J. E. LAUGHLIN
TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS WESLEY BUILDINGS MONTREAL: C. W. COATES ——— HALIFAX: S. F. HUESTIS 1896
Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, at the Department of Agriculture.
CONTENTS.

In the wide western plains at the base of the Rocky Mountains, where countless buffalo once found luxuriant feeding-grounds, the white man's cattle were roaming in tens of thousands. It was the time of the round up. The cowboys had been scouring the plain for hundreds of miles gathering in the cattle and horses, banding them and driving them into the corral, there to be counted and the young branded.