A Texas Ranger (Western Classic). William MacLeod Raine

      William MacLeod Raine

      A Texas Ranger

      (Western Classic)

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      2017 OK Publishing

      ISBN 978-80-272-2046-5

      Table of 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

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      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 written:

      No loopholes now are framing

       Lean faces, grim and brown;

       No more keen eyes are aiming

       To bring the redskin down.

       The plough team’s trappings jingle

       Across the furrowed field,

       And sounds domestic mingle

       Where valor hung its shield.

       But every wind careering

       Seems here to breathe a song—

       A song of brave frontiering—

       A saga of the strong.

      Part I.

       The Man from the Panhandle

      (In Which Steve Plays Second Fiddle)

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      Chapter I.

       A Desert Meeting

       Table