Copyright 1920
SANDERS PUBLISHING CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

To My Mother:

Who shared with me many of the dangers and hardships of the old days on the ranges of the Southwest, these stories are affectionately dedicated.

Washington, D. C.
September 1st, 1919.

Contents

[Sunrise on the Desert (poem)]xi
[The Blue-Roan "Outlaw"]1
[Campin' Out]23
[Popgun Plays Santa Claus]32
["Just Regulars"]45
[The Stampede on the Turkey Track Range]58
[The Navajo Turquoise Ring]74
[An Arizona Etude]86
[Stutterin' Andy]94
[The Passing of Bill Jackson]104
[The Tenderfoot from Yale]114
["Dummy"]123
[The Mummy from the Grand Cañon]140
[Jumping at Conclusions]149
[Lost in the Petrified Forest]163
["Camel Huntin'"]174
[The Trinidad Kid]184
["Pablo"]195
[The Shooting up of Horse Head]206

Illustrations

[The whole herd swam the Pecos in safety]8
[Say, Dad, did you ever pack a burro?]23
[Gibson managed to get everything in the two Kyacks carried by the mule]36
[Apache squaw and baby]45
[The men on day herd could hold them easily]58
[Some prehistoric people had carved queer hieroglyphics on it]71
[He was a picture of savage finery]78
[Now the Navajos are famous silversmiths]78
[The mess wagon was backed up into the shade]86
[Andy done built a little log house]97
[We had a fire lookout station]115
[Out on the range 1200 ewes were grazing]128
[He had a Navajo Squaw weaving blankets]144
[He knows where there's a bunch of Cliff Dwellings]148
[The sails of the wind mill flashed in the sunlight]153
[We were camped over in the petrified forest]165
[Hawk met a forest ranger leading a pack mule]197
[They gave the money to Jackson, the Cross J boss]210