TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
Reading edition
Both words ‘ranche’ and ‘rancho’ appear numerous times in the text. Did not change either.
Added the word ‘less’ between the words ‘a’ and ‘exposed’ on p. 169.
Changed ‘did’ to ‘died’ on p. 209.
Changed ‘Probable’ to ‘Probably’ on p. 228.
Changed ‘me’ to ‘himself’ on p. 311.
Changed ‘recurred’ to ‘occurred’ on p. 331.
Silently corrected typographical errors.
Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.