By ANNA FULLER

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"THE PEAK WAS SUPERB THAT MORNING, BIG AND STRONG AND GLITTERING WITH SNOW."

Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch Book By Anna Fuller AUTHOR OF "A LITERARY COURTSHIP" "PRATT PORTRAITS," ETC. Illustrated by Emma G. Moore New York and London G. P. Putnam's Sons

TO ONE
TO WHOM I OWE
COLORADO
AND MUCH BESIDES
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED

PREFACE.

The sketches of Colorado life which make up this volume are little more than hints and suggestions caught from time to time by a single observer in a comparatively narrow field of observation. Narrow as the field is, however, it offers a somewhat unusual diversity of scene; for that most charming of health resorts known in these pages as Springtown, is the chance centre of many varying interests. In its immediate vicinity exists the life of the prairie ranch on the one hand and that of the mining-camp on the other; while dominating all as it were—town, prairie, and mountain fastness—rises the great Peak which has now for so many years been the goal of pilgrimage to men and women from the Eastern States in pursuit of health, of fortune, or of the free, open-air life of the prairie. If, from acquaintance with these fictitious characters set in a very real environment, the reader be led to form some slight impression of the stirring little drama which is going forward to-day in that pleasant Land of Promise, he will have incidentally endorsed the claim of these disconnected sketches to be regarded as a single picture.

May, 1894.

CHAPTER		PAGE
	Preface	[v]
I.	A Pilgrim in the Far West.	[1]
II.	Brian Boru.	[36]
III.	Jake Stanwood's Gal.	[60]
IV.	At the Keith Ranch.	[101]
V.	The Rumpety Case.	[123]
VI	The Lame Gulch Professor.	[151]
VII.	The Boss of the Wheel.	[187]
VIII.	Mr. Fetherbee's Adventure.	[217]
IX.	An Amateur Gamble.	[240]
X.	A Rocky Mountain Shipwreck.	[266]
XI.	A Stroke in the Game.	[301]
XII.	The Blizzard Picnic.	[335]
XIII.	A Golden Vista.	[369]

Note.—Of the thirteen sketches included in this volume six have previously appeared in periodicals, as follows:

A Pilgrim in the Far West in Harper's Weekly; Brian Boru in Worthington's Magazine; Jake Stanwood's Gal and At the Keith Ranch in The Century Magazine; The Rumpety Case in Lippincott's Magazine; and An Amateur Gamble in Scribner's Magazine. They were, however, all prepared with reference to their final use as a consecutive series.

A. F.

Illustrations

"The Peak was Superb that Morning, Big and Strong and Glittering with Snow."	[ Frontispiece]
"A Handful of Cottonwood trees Clustered About the House."	[24]
"The Vast Sea of the Prairie."	[46]
"Between his Cabin Door and 'The Range' Stretched Twenty Miles of Arid Prairie."	[61]
The Keith Ranch.	[104]
"A Half-Hearted Stream Known as 'The Creek.'"	[124]
"The Great Dome of Snow Towered in All its Grandeur."	[142]
"A Town of Rude Frame Huts had Sprung Up in the Hollow Below."	[156]
"On the Edge of a Dead Forest."	[212]
"It's a Kind of Double Back-Action Slant we've Got to Tackle this Time."	[228]
Pine Bluff.	[258]
"They Looked out at the Peak."	[288]
"The Brook, which Came Dashing Down from the Cañon, still Rioting on its Way."	[324]
"The Ranch Gate, which had Swung Half to on its Hinges."	[360]
"The Wild and Beautiful Gorge."	[378]
A Golden Vista.	[388]

PREFACE.

Contents

Illustrations

PEAK AND PRAIRIE