Transcriber’s Notes

Minor errors or omissions in punctuation have been fixed.

Page [6]: “sojurn in the gulches” changed to “sojourn in the gulches” and “sedate inhabiants” changed to “sedate inhabitants”

Page [8]: “source of “difficulites,”” changed to “source of “difficulties,””

Page [11]: “deringer” changed to “derringer” and “all prevading” changed to “all pervading”

Page [14]: “ruffians and marauder” changed to “ruffians and marauders”

Page [20]: “under the serveillance” changed to “under the surveillance”

Page [25]: “was jound naked” changed to “was found naked”

Page [31]: “unfortnuate pair” changed to “unfortunate pair” and “preceeding them” changed to “preceding them”

Page [33]: “to strike to the” changed to “to strike to thee”

Page [34]: “devine origin” changed to “divine origin”

Page [37]: “Friends, however, interferred” changed to “Friends, however, interfered”

Page [38]: “to wary to fall” changed to “too wary to fall” and “sieze hold of them” changed to “seize hold of them”

Page [41]: “assassinnation was” changed to “assassination was”

Page [42]: “lover of whiskey” changed to “love of whiskey”

Page [46]: “twelve o’clock M.” changed to “twelve o’clock P. M.” “would be enable” changed “to would be enabled”

Page [47]: “wollen scarf” changed to “woolen scarf”

Page [48]: “double-barrell” changed to “double-barrel”

Page [53]: “wandered what had become” changed to “wondered what had become”

Page [55]: “ows its euphonious appellation” changed to “owes its euphonious appellation”

Page [56]: “seasonable conviction” changed to “reasonable conviction”

Page [58]: “two Road Agent” changed to “two Road Agents”

Page [59]: “You’r the man” changed to “You’re the man”

Page [61]: “tremenduous roar” changed to “tremendous roar”

Page [69]: “friends, sweetharts” changed to “friends, sweethearts”

Page [70]: “burry Dillingham” changed to “bury Dillingham”

Page [76]: “of coarse” changed to “of course”

Page [77]: “eithers of the robbers” changed to “either of the robbers”

Page [78]: “the milenium” changed to “the millennium”

Page [80]: “ceasless and active wickedness” changed to “ceaseless and active wickedness”

Page [82]: “embryo or the order” changed to “embryo of the order”

Page [83]: “Demsey’s Ranch” changed to “Dempsey’s Ranch” and “emergining half drowned” changed to “emerging half drowned”

Page [86]: “little experience prevent” changed to “little experience prevented”

Page [89]: “far to astute” changed to “far too astute” and “befor Ives” changed to “before Ives”

Page [93]: “exhile from Montana” changed to “exile from Montana”

Page [94]: “acqueous sympathy” changed to “aqueous sympathy”

Page [96]: “was ubiquitious” changed to “was ubiquitous”

Page [102]: “to strong for” changed to “too strong for” “one of the crisis” changed to “one of the crises” “they were to strong” changed to “they were too strong”

Page [104]: “matters to extremeties” changed to “matters to extremities” and “simpathies of all men” changed to “sympathies of all men”

Page [105]: “possossion of a citizen” changed to “possession of a citizen” “Romain said” changed to “Romaine said”

Page [111]: “enlivend the spirits” changed to “enlivened the spirits”

Page [114]: “his quondom” changed to “his quondam”

Page [116]: “calm and quite” changed to “calm and quiet” “lantarn and some stools” changed to “lantern and some stools”

Page [117]: “A lable” changed to “A label”

Page [120]: “there red perplexity” changed to “there read perplexity”

Page [121]: “the of charge” changed to “of the charge”, “to accouut” changed to “to account” and “caused alleged received” changed to “cause alleged received”

Page [124]: “Dueth John” changed to “Dutch John” and “close wacth” changed to “close watch”

Page [128]: “chained own” changed to “chained down” and “without much strugle” changed to “without much struggle”

Page [130]: “preceeding chapters” changed to “preceding chapters”

Page [134]: “for repentence” changed to “for repentance”

Page [139]: “addressed a gentlman” changed to “addressed a gentleman” and “Arbor Resturant” changed to “Arbor Restaurant”

Page [141]: “hung in pnblic” changed to “hung in public”

Page [144]: “dis dying regards” changed to “his dying regards” and “to hang to long” changed to “to hang too long”

Page [147]: “GEROGE SHEARS” changed to “GEORGE SHEARS”

Page [149]: “instantly siezed” changed to “instantly seized”

Page [150]: “two hundred and fity” changed to “two hundred and fifty”

Page [154]: “its perpetratration” changed to “its perpetration” and “Magruder” changed to “Mugruder”

Page [159]: “the neighberhood” changed to “the neighborhood”

Page [161]: “therunto belonging” changed to “thereunto belonging”

Page [162]: “off the trial” changed to “off the trail”

Page [163]: “have forgotton” changed to “have forgotten”

Page [164]: “to hard” changed to “too hard”, “six time” changed to “six times” and “had everything been manged” changed to “had everything been managed”

Page [171]: “what was intendend” changed to “what was intended”

Page [173]: “seemed imposssible” changed to “seemed impossible”

Page [175]: “his enemey” changed to “his enemy”

Page [178]: “if ho” changed to “if he”

Page [179]: “attendeant surgeons” changed to “attendant surgeons”

Page [185]: “rode of with him” changed to “rode off with him” “regailing themselves” changed to “regaling themselves”

Page [186]: “unanimously condemed” changed to “unanimously condemned” “wagon-boss order them” changed to “wagon-boss ordered them”

Page [187]: “burry him” changed to “bury him”

Page [193]: “impared his usefulness” changed to “impaired his usefulness”

Page [195]: “diggins struck” changed to “diggings struck”

Page [196]: “overpower by superior” changed to “overpowered by superior”

Page [197]: “I am the gentlemen.” changed to “I am the gentleman.”

Page [207]: “consciense oppressed” changed to “conscience oppressed”

Page [209]: “loose his brains” changed to “lose his brains”

Page [217]: “eroneous constitution” changed to “erroneous constitution”

Page [218]: “been recommeded” changed to “been recommended”

Page [220]: “sdeuction of” changed to “seduction of”

Page [222]: “came to Calfornia” changed to “came to California”

Page [223]: “believed the accoent” changed to “believed the account”

Page [224]: “gang of mauraders” changed to “gang of marauders”

Page [225]: “caused a by wound” changed to “caused by a wound” and “In Helana,” changed to “In Helena,”

There are two chapters labeled XII in the original and no chapter labeled XXXII. This has not been changed.

For a portion of the original book, Aleck Carter’s first name was spelled Alick. This has been fixed to reduce confusion.