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CATTLE-RANCH TO COLLEGE

THE TRUE TALE OF A BOY'S ADVENTURES IN THE FAR WEST

BY

RUSSELL DOUBLEDAY

"A GUNNER ABOARD THE YANKEE"

NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE Co
MDCCCXCIX


Copyright, 1899, by
DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO

TO MY MOTHER,
KINDLY CRITIC, COUNSELLOR, AND FRIEND,
THIS BOOK IS
AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

PREFACE.

This is a true tale of a boy's life in the West twenty-five years ago. It is an account of his amusements, his trials, his work, his play. The incidents described actually happened and are described substantially as "the boy" related them to the writer.

The "wild and woolly" West is fast vanishing, and a great deal of the adventurous life is going with it. Buffalo hunts are things of the past; encounters with Indians that were experienced in the time of John Worth's boyhood are now happily very rare; railroads have penetrated the cattle country, and vast herds of cattle are no longer driven long distances to the shipping point, so that the consequent danger, hardship, and excitement are largely done away with.

In places the great prairies have been fenced, in others grain grows where heretofore only buffalo, cattle, and horses ranged, and much of the free, wild life of the cowboy, the ranchman, and the miner is gone for all time.

It is hoped that this book will be of interest, not because of its novelty but of its truthfulness. The author feels that the story of a boy who has passed through the stern training of a frontier life to an honorable place in an Eastern university will be acceptable to boys young and old.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. An Indian Attack 1

II. The Young Brave's Daring 20

III. A Narrow Escape 36

IV. Hitting the Trail 54

V. In a Mining Camp 73

VI. A Snowshoe Race 91

VII. A Buffalo Hunt 106

VIII. A Close Finish 122

IX. A "Bad Man's" End 140

X. Battle Royal 157

XI. A Trying Journey 177

XII. A Change of Scene 195

XIII. Herding Horses and Panning Gold 214

XIV. A Migration 229

XV. "Range-Riding" 245

XVI. A Broncho Buster 261

XVII. A Cow-Puncher in Earnest 273

XVIII. A Midnight Stampede 289

XIX. An Awakening 304

XX. A Transformation 317

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