The Fighting Shepherdess

by Caroline Lockhart

E-text prepared by Roger Frank
and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
(http://www.pgdp.net)

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Kate was sitting on a rock--a dark picturesque silhouette against the sky.
See page 235.

[LINK TO FULL-RESOLUTION IMAGE]

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The Fighting Shepherdess By CAROLINE LOCKHART With Frontispiece By M. LEONE BRACKER A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with Small, Maynard & Company

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Copyright, 1919,
By SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(Incorporated)

SECOND PRINTING, FEBRUARY, 1919
THIRD PRINTING, MARCH, 1919
FOURTH PRINTING, MARCH, 1919
FIFTH PRINTING, MAY, 1919
SIXTH PRINTING, JUNE, 1919

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Contents

CHAPTER			PAGE
I		The Sand Coulee Roadhouse	[1]
II		An Historic Occasion	[13]
III		Prouty	[28]
IV		Disillusionment	[40]
V		For Always	[52]
VI		The Wolf Scratches	[58]
VII		The Blood of Jezebel	[75]
VIII		The Man of Mystery	[85]
IX		The Summons	[98]
X		The Bank Puts on the Screws	[109]
XI		Kate Keeps Her Promise	[120]
XII		The Dude Wrangler	[131]
XIII		Mrs. Toomey’s Friendship is Tested	[139]
XIV		Like Any Other Herder	[156]
XV		One More Whirl	[165]
XVI		Straws	[175]
XVII		Extremes Meet	[189]
XVIII		A Warning	[207]
XIX		An Old, Old Friend	[212]
XX		The Fork of the Road	[228]
XXI		“Heart And Hand”	[253]
XXII		Mullendore Wins	[263]
XXIII		When the Black Spot Hit	[274]
XXIV		Toomey Goes Into Something	[283]
XXV		The Chinook	[298]
XXVI		Taking Her Medicine	[309]
XXVII		The Sheep Queen	[322]
XXVIII		The Surprise of Mr. Wentz’s Life	[333]
XXIX		Toomey Distinguishes Himself	[344]
XXX		Her Day	[353]

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