A Breath of Prairie and other stories
AND OTHER STORIES
BREATH of PRAIRIE
AND OTHER STORIES
WILL LILLIBRIDGE
AUTHOR OF “BEN BLAIR,” “THE DOMINANT DOLLAR,” ETC.
WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR BY J. N. MARCHAND
CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG & CO.
1911
Copyright A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1911
Published April, 1911
Will Lillibridge
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A BREATH OF PRAIRIE
A TRIBUTE
A BREATH OF PRAIRIE
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THE DOMINANT IMPULSE
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THE STUFF OF HEROES
ARCADIA IN AVERNUS
Chapter I––Prelude
Chapter II––The Leap
Chapter III––The Wonder of Prairie
Chapter IV––A Revelation
Chapter V––The Dominance of the Evolved
Chapter VI––By a Candle’s Flame
Chapter VII––The Price of the Leap
JOURNEY’S END
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A PRAIRIE IDYL
THE MADNESS OF WHISTLING WINGS
Chapter I––Sandford the Exemplary
Chapter II––The Presage of the Wings
Chapter III––The Other Man
Chapter IV––Capitulation
Chapter V––Anticipation
Chapter VI––“Mark the Right, Sandford!”
Chapter VII––The Bacon What Am!
Chapter VIII––Feathered Bullets
Chapter IX––Oblivion
Chapter X––Upon “Wiping the Eye”
Chapter XI––The Cold Gray Dawn
A FRONTIER ROMANCE: A TALE OF JUMEL MANSION
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THE CUP THAT O’ERFLOWED: AN OUTLINE
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UNJUDGED
THE TOUCH HUMAN
A DARK HORSE
THE WORTH OF THE PRICE