Contents
| CHAPTER | PAGE | ||
| Preface | [v] | ||
| I. | A Pilgrim in the Far West. | [1] | |
| II. | Brian Boru. | [36] | |
| III. | Jake Stanwood's Gal. | [60] | |
| IV. | At the Keith Ranch. | [101] | |
| V. | The Rumpety Case. | [123] | |
| VI | The Lame Gulch Professor. | [151] | |
| VII. | The Boss of the Wheel. | [187] | |
| VIII. | Mr. Fetherbee's Adventure. | [217] | |
| IX. | An Amateur Gamble. | [240] | |
| X. | A Rocky Mountain Shipwreck. | [266] | |
| XI. | A Stroke in the Game. | [301] | |
| XII. | The Blizzard Picnic. | [335] | |
| XIII. | A Golden Vista. | [369] |
Note.—Of the thirteen sketches included in this volume six have previously appeared in periodicals, as follows:
A Pilgrim in the Far West in Harper's Weekly; Brian Boru in Worthington's Magazine; Jake Stanwood's Gal and At the Keith Ranch in The Century Magazine; The Rumpety Case in Lippincott's Magazine; and An Amateur Gamble in Scribner's Magazine. They were, however, all prepared with reference to their final use as a consecutive series.
A. F.
Illustrations
| "The Peak was Superb that Morning, Big and Strong and Glittering with Snow." | [ Frontispiece] |
| "A Handful of Cottonwood trees Clustered About the House." | [24] |
| "The Vast Sea of the Prairie." | [46] |
| "Between his Cabin Door and 'The Range' Stretched Twenty Miles of Arid Prairie." | [61] |
| The Keith Ranch. | [104] |
| "A Half-Hearted Stream Known as 'The Creek.'" | [124] |
| "The Great Dome of Snow Towered in All its Grandeur." | [142] |
| "A Town of Rude Frame Huts had Sprung Up in the Hollow Below." | [156] |
| "On the Edge of a Dead Forest." | [212] |
| "It's a Kind of Double Back-Action Slant we've Got to Tackle this Time." | [228] |
| Pine Bluff. | [258] |
| "They Looked out at the Peak." | [288] |
| "The Brook, which Came Dashing Down from the Cañon, still Rioting on its Way." | [324] |
| "The Ranch Gate, which had Swung Half to on its Hinges." | [360] |
| "The Wild and Beautiful Gorge." | [378] |
| A Golden Vista. | [388] |