FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

MCMXXIV

Copyright, 1924, by

Frederick A. Stokes Company

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS
I[The Arrival]
II[An Affair of the Heart]
III[The Firing Squad]
IV[The Doll]
V[Poor Charley]
VI[A Child’s World]
VII[The Norther]
VIII[A Christmas Valentine]
IX[Stockings and Shoes]
X[The Carriage]
XI[The Roping Match]
XII[The Fugitive]
XIII[The-Boy-on-the-Train]
XIV[Some One Rides Away]
XV[No Questions Asked]
XVI[“Twen-ty-Sev-en-Hun-dred-Cat-tle!”]
XVII[With the Trail-Herd]
XVIII[Sunday Comes Back]
XIX[Hilda and the Flying M’s]
XX[Hilda and the Blue Roan]
XXI[Another Chance]
XXII[Young Wings]
XXIII[At the Alamositas]
XXIV[“Invitation to the Dance”]
XXV[The Dance at Grainger’s]
XXVI[As Maybelle Saw It]
XXVII[Old Man Hipp’s Steer]
XXVIII[The Closing of a Door]
XXIX[The Resurrection Plant]
XXX[The Return]
XXXI[A Telegram]
XXXII[An Arrival]

A GIRL OF THE PLAINS COUNTRY

CHAPTER I
THE ARRIVAL

The little girl on the back seat of the stage clung to one of the uprights of the vehicle as though she feared that when it stopped she would, in her enthusiasm, hurl herself bodily from it, and into this strange, interesting, dusty life of the plains country.