Rim o' the World

by B. M. Bower

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CONTENTS

I	The Rim and What Lay Beneath It	[1]
II	The Lorrigan Tree Grows Thriftily	[16]
III	Mary Hope Douglas Appears	[30]
IV	A Matter of Brands	[44]
V	They Ride and They Do Not Tell Where	[57]
VI	Belle Meets an Emergency in Her Own Way	[67]
VII	The Name	[82]
VIII	The Game	[90]
IX	A Little Scotch	[102]
X	The Lorrigan Way	[118]
XI	Lance Rides Ahead	[133]
XII	She Will, and She Won’t	[145]
XIII	A Way He Had With Him	[156]
XIV	In Which Lance Finishes One Job	[172]
XV	He Tackles Another	[180]
XVI	About a Piano	[192]
XVII	The Lorrigan Viewpoint	[204]
XVIII	Peddled Rumors	[219]
XIX	Mary Hope Has Much Trouble	[232]
XX	As He Lived, So He Died	[250]
XXI	Lance Trails a Mystery	[258]
XXII	Lance Rides Another Trail	[272]
XXIII	Lance Plays the Game	[283]
XXIV	When a Lorrigan Loves	[297]
XXV	Belle Lorrigan Wins	[312]
XVI	The Dope	[323]
XXVII	How One Trail Ended	[336]
XXVIII	The Making of New Trails	[345]

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1

RIM O’ THE WORLD

CHAPTER ONE

THE RIM AND WHAT LAY BENEATH IT

Not all of the West is tamed and trained to run smoothly on pneumatic tires and to talk more enthusiastically of the different “makes” of cars than of bits and saddles. There are still wide stretches unknown of tourists and movie men hunting locations for Western melodrama where men live in the full flavor of adventure and romance and never know it, because they have never known any other way to live.