With their cabins rudely fashioned and their camp-fires’ ruddy light;

Who builded great towns and cities, who swung the Golden Gate,

And hewed from the mighty ashlar the form of a sovereign state.

I drink alone in silence to the builders of the West—

“Long life to the hearts still beating, and peace to the hearts at rest.”

CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Pony Express Rider[1]
II.“Hurrah for Washoe!”[8]
III.The Night Ride[15]
IV.Scot McClintock Introduces Himself[27]
V.Scot Passes the Hat[39]
VI.Hugh Sits in[53]
VII.Vicky Tells Secrets[65]
VIII.Scot Offers Health Hints[75]
IX.Scot Talks on Mother Love[80]
X.Till Tapping[90]
XI.“Twenty-Four Hours to Get Out”[99]
XII.“Git Out de Way, Ole Dan Tucker”[106]
XIII.The “Stranglers”[121]
XIV.Colonel McClintock Agrees with Vicky[130]
XV.Hugh Learns Old Grimes Is Still Dead[139]
XVI.In the Pit of Night[150]
XVII.A Knife with Fourteen Notches[159]
XVIII.Apply to Hugh McClintock[165]
XIX.McClintock Bills the Town[171]
XX.“Little Vicky”[179]
XXI.In the Blizzard[187]
XXII.A Haven of Refuge[196]
XXIII.Two Plus One Makes Three[208]
XXIV.Old Dog Tray Barks[221]
XXV.The Killer Strikes[229]
XXVI.Hugh Hits the Trail[238]
XXVII.Trapped[244]
XXVIII.“As Good as the Wheat”[252]
XXIX.Vicky Finds a Way[261]
XXX.At Bell’s Camp[270]
XXXI.Hugh Takes the Stump[277]
XXXII.Father Marston Prophesies[283]
XXXIII.The Booming of the Forty-Fives[293]
XXXIV.The Bald Knob Strike[298]
XXXV.McClintock Reads Tennyson[310]
XXXVI.Signed by William Thornton[316]
XXXVII.Hugh Explains[324]
XXXVIII.The Battle of Bald Knob[329]
XXXIX.Sleuthing[338]
XL.In the Mesh of His Own Net[344]
XLI.From the Junipers[350]
XLII.Hugh Rides to an Appointment[357]
XLIII.The Sacrifice[363]
XLIV.Under the Stars[367]

BONANZA