I [Tex Returns]
II [H. Whitby Booth is Shown How]
III [Buck Makes Friends]
IV [The Foreman of the Double Y]
V ["Comin' Thirty" has Notions]
VI [An Honest Man and a Rogue]
VII [The French Rose]
VIII [Tex Joins the Enemy]
IX [Any Means to an End]
X [Introducing a Parasite]
XI [The Man Outside]
XII [A Hidden Enemy]
XIII [Punctuation as a Fine Art]
XIV [Fighting the Itch]
XV [The Slaughter of the Innocents]
XVI [The Master Mind]
XVII [Hopalong's Night Ride]
XVIII [Karl to the Rescue]
XIX [The Weak Link]
XX [Misplaced Confidence]
XXI [Pickles Tries to Talk]
XXII ["A Ministering Angel"]
XXIII [Hopalong's Move]
XXIV [The Rebellion of Cock Murray]
XXV [Mary Receives Company]
XXVI [Hunters and Hunted]
XXVII [Points of the Compass]
XXVIII [The Heart of a Rose]
Illustrations
So she stood, silently regarding him . . . Frontispiece
(missing from source book)
[The rifle belonging to Hopalong never missed—and besides, he had made his wish]
[Rose flung herself from the saddle and ran to him]
[As he spoke he hurled his horse against Hopalong's, while his right hand flashed to his hip]
Buck Peters, Ranchman
CHAPTER I
TEX RETURNS
Johnny Nelson reached up for the new, blue flannel shirt he had hung above his bunk, and then placed his hands on hips and soliloquized: "Me an' Red buy a new shirt apiece Saturday night an' one of 'em 's gone Sunday mornin'; purty fast work even for this outfit."