Ben Blair / The Story of a Plainsman - 1

Ben Blair
The Story of a Plainsman
by
Will Lillibridge
Author of "Where the Trail Divides," etc.

Published October 21, 1905

Second Edition October 28, 1905

Third Edition November 29, 1905

Fourth Edition December 9, 1905

Fifth Edition December 14, 1905

Sixth Edition February 28, 1907

To My Wife

Florence touched his arm. "Ben," she pleaded, "Ben, forgive me. I've hurt you. I can't say I love you." Page 114.

Contents
I.	In Rude Border Land	[1]
II.	Desolation	[9]
III.	The Box R Ranch	[23]
IV.	Ben's New Home	[37]
V.	The Exotics	[44]
VI.	The Soil and the Seed	[53]
VII.	The Sanity of the Wild	[66]
VIII.	The Glitter of the Unknown	[74]
IX.	A Riffle of Prairie	[83]
X.	The Dominant Animal	[94]
XI.	Love's Avowal	[106]
XII.	A Deferred Reckoning	[117]
XIII.	A Shot in the Dark	[134]
XIV.	The Inexorable Trail	[148]
XV.	In the Grip of the Law	[164]
XVI.	The Quick and the Dead	[185]
XVII.	Glitter and Tinsel	[193]
XVIII.	Painter and Picture	[204]
XIX.	A Visitor from the Plains	[217]
XX.	Club Confidences	[230]
XXI.	Love in Conflict	[242]
XXII.	Two Friends Have It Out	[258]
XXIII.	The Back-Fire	[270]
XIV.	The Upper and the Nether Millstones	[287]
XV.	Of What Avail?	[304]
XVI.	Love's Surrender	[318]

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