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.