William MacLeod Raine
A Texas Ranger
(Western Classic)
Published by
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- Advanced Digital Solutions & High-Quality eBook Formatting -
2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2046-5
Table of Contents
Part I. The Man from the Panhandle
Chapter II. Lieutenant Fraser Interferes
Chapter V. Larry Neill to the Rescue
Chapter VI. Somebody’s Acting Mighty Foolish
Chapter VIII. Would You Worry About Me?
Chapter IX. Down the Jackrabbit Shaft
Chapter X. In a Tunnel of the Mal Pais
Chapter XI. The Southerner Takes a Risk
Chapter XIII. Steve Offers Congratulations
Part II. The Girl of Lost Valley
Chapter IV. The Warning of Mantrap Gulch
Chapter V. Jed Briscoe Takes a Hand
Chapter VI. A Sure Enough Wolf
Chapter VIII. The Broncho Busters
Chapter IX. A Shot From Bald Knob
Chapter XI. The Fat in the Fire
Chapter XV. The Texan Pays a Visit
Chapter XVII. On the Road to Gimlet Butte
Chapter XVIII. A Witness in Rebuttal
Foreword to Ye Gentle Reader
Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority. The frontier has gone to join the good Indian. In place of the ranger who patrolled the border for “bad men” has come the forest ranger, type of the forward lapping tide of civilization. The place where I write this—Tucson, Arizona—is now essentially more civilized than New York. Only at the moving picture shows can the old West, melodramatically overpainted, be shown to the manicured sons and daughters of those, still living, who brought law and order to the mesquite.
As Arthur Chapman, the Western poet, has written:
No loopholes now are framing
Lean faces, grim and brown;
No more keen eyes are aiming
To bring the redskin down.
The plough team’s trappings jingle
