A TEXAS RANGER

By William MacLeod Raine,

1910

CONTENTS

FOREWORD TO YE GENTLE READER.

PART I — THE MAN FROM THE PANHANDLE

CHAPTER I — A DESERT MEETING

CHAPTER II — LIEUTENANT FRASER INTERFERES.

CHAPTER III — A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER IV — LOST!

CHAPTER V — LARRY NEILL TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER VI — SOMEBODY'S ACTING MIGHTY FOOLISH.

CHAPTER VII — ENTER MR. DUNKE

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 XII — EXIT DUNKE

CHAPTER XIII — STEVE OFFERS CONGRATULATIONS

PART II — THE GIRL OF LOST VALLEY

CHAPTER I — IN THE FIRE ZONE

CHAPTER II — A COMPACT

CHAPTER III — INTO LOST VALLEY

CHAPTER IV — THE WARNING OF MANTRAP GULCH

CHAPTER V — JED BRISCOE TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER VI — A SURE ENOUGH WOLF

CHAPTER VII — THE ROUND-UP

CHAPTER VIII — THE BRONCHO BUSTERS

CHAPTER IX — A SHOT FROM BALD KNOB

CHAPTER X — DOC LEE

CHAPTER XI — THE FAT IN THE FIRE

CHAPTER XII — THE DANCE

CHAPTER XIII — THE WOLF HOWLS

CHAPTER XIV — HOWARD EXPLAINS

CHAPTER XV — THE TEXAN PAYS A VISIT

CHAPTER XVI — THE WOLF BITES

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