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Title: Jack, the Young Ranchman

A Boy's Adventures in the Rockies

Author: George Bird Grinnell

Release Date: May 22, 2014 [eBook #45720]

Language: English

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JACK, THE YOUNG RANCHMAN

"JACK COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE CALF HAD NOT BEEN CHOKED TO DEATH."—Page 101.

OR

A BOY'S ADVENTURES IN THE ROCKIES

BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
Author of "Pawnee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lodge Tales," Etc.

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1899,
By Frederick A. Stokes Company

Nineteenth Printing

Printed in the United States of America

Far away in the west, close to the backbone of the continent, lies the sage-brush country where the happenings described in the following pages took place.

The story is about real things and about real people, many of whom are alive to-day. The ranch lies in the Rocky Mountains, in a great basin, walled in by mountains on every hand, and 7,500 feet above the level of the sea.

The life there was exciting. There was good hunting—antelope and elk and bears and buffalo; and, far away—yet near enough to be very real—there were wild Indians.

It is a pleasure to review those days in memory.