THE IRON
FURROW

By GEORGE C. SHEDD

FRONTISPIECE BY

HENRY A. BOTKIN

A.L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York

Published by arrangement with Doubleday, Page & Company

COPYRIGHT, 1919, 1920, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
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TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

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AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

THE IRON FURROW

Table of Contents

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CHAPTER I

The Ventisquero Range stretches across the circumference of one's vision in a procession of mountains that come tall and blue out of the distant north and seemingly march past to vanish in the remote south like azure phantoms. The mountains wall the horizon and dominate the mesa, their black forest-clad flanks crumpled and broken