TO
A. W. BALLANTYNE
The Sheriff of Badger
CONTENTS
[CHAPTER I. Lafe Johnson Arrives at Lazy L Ranch]
[CHAPTER II. Certain Complications Result]
[CHAPTER III. Concerning a Baby's Wail]
[CHAPTER IV. Out of a Job]
[CHAPTER V. An Incipient Love Affair]
[CHAPTER VI. Discomfiture of a Gunfighter]
[CHAPTER VII. Johnson is Elected Sheriff of Badger]
[CHAPTER VIII. A Feud and What Came of It]
[CHAPTER IX. An Inquest and a Surprise]
[CHAPTER X. A Journey To Satan's Kingdom]
[CHAPTER XI. A Waitress to the Rescue]
[CHAPTER XII. The Sheriff Settles a Conjugal Dispute]
[CHAPTER XIII. And Hetty Comes to Badger to Live]
[CHAPTER XIV. The Sheriff Ensnared]
[CHAPTER XV. How He Won a Wife]
[CHAPTER XVI. The Gunfighter Returns and Delays Wedding]
[CHAPTER XVII. Johnson Meets a Friend of Hetty's]
[CHAPTER XVIII. A Sacrifice and Its Punishment]
[CHAPTER XIX. Buffalo Jim Gives Wise Counsel]
[CHAPTER XX. The Sheriff Purges Town of Badger]
[CHAPTER XXI. A Fight in the Dark]
[CHAPTER XXII. Capture of Moffatt, the Gunman]
[CHAPTER XXIII. The Wedding]
[CHAPTER XXIV. The Bride is Lost]
[CHAPTER XXV. Johnson Becomes Boss of the Anvil]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Enters Trouble]
[CHAPTER XXVII. A Clever Woman and a Misunderstanding]
[CHAPTER XXVIII. Reconciliation—Mrs. Vining Experiences a Change of Heart]
[CHAPTER XXIX. Lafe Helps a Deserter]
[CHAPTER XXX. And Discovers Hetty's Brother]
[CHAPTER XXXI. Great Expectations in Johnson Family]
[CHAPTER XXXII. Birth of Lafe Johnson, Jr.]
[CHAPTER XXXIII. Johnson Once More in Role of Sheriff]
[CHAPTER XXXIV. He Arrests a Suspect]
[CHAPTER XXXV. The Death Dice]
[CHAPTER XXXVI. Responsibility Sits Heavily on Lafe]
[CHAPTER XXXVII. But the Boss Again Proves His Mettle]
[CHAPTER XXXVIII. How a Moffatt Henchman Was Ousted]
[CHAPTER XXXIX. News from Buffalo Jim]
[CHAPTER XL. He Arrives To Visit the Johnsons]
[CHAPTER XLI. A Night Ride and Death of Buffalo Jim]
[CHAPTER XLII. Middle Life]
[CHAPTER XLIII. Moffatt Once More]
[CHAPTER XLIV. The Duel in the Malpais]
[CHAPTER XLV. The End]