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They Crossed the Gila at Flood Tide (page 188).
Thirty Years onThe Frontier
....BY....
ROBERT McREYNOLDS,
AUTHOR OF
Rodney Wilkes,” “The Luxury of Poverty,” “A Modern Jean Valjean,” “Facts and Fancies.”
EL PASO PUBLISHING CO.
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO.
1906
Copyright by
Robert McReynolds.
1906.
To
Louis Taliaferro,
Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER. PAGE. I. In Days of Innocence 1 II. Out for a Fortune 9 III. Black Hills Days 16 IV. The Custer Massacre 21 V. The Shadow Scout 31 VI. Indian Fight in Colorado 39 VII. A Cow Boy Duel 47 VIII. Pleasant Halfacre’s Revenge 53 IX. Capturing Wild Horses 63 X. An Expedition That Failed 72 XI. Across the Palm
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Desert 79 XII. The Last Stand of a Dying Race 87 XIII. The Tragedy of the Lost Mine 98 XIV. The Land of the Fair God 107 XV. Outlawry in Oklahoma 115 XVI. A New Land of Canaan 125 XVII. Told Around the Camp Fire 134 XVIII. The Lone Grave on the Mesa 141 XIX. Under the Black Flag 148 XX. In Cuban Jungles 156 XXI. Emulous of Washington 164 XXII. On the Round Up 169 XXIII. The Egypt of America 179 XXIV. In the Dome of the Sky 190 XXV. Where Nature is at her Best 197 XXVI. When the West was New 207