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“With a boldness that gripped his throat he slipped his hand along the back of the arbor seat”
JUSTIN WINGATE, RANCHMAN By JOHN H. WHITSON Author of “The Rainbow Chasers,” “Barbara, a Woman of the West,” etc. With Illustrations from Drawings by ARTHUR E. BECKER Boston Little, Brown, and Company
Copyright, 1905, by Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved. Published April, 1905. Printers, S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, U. S. A.
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE—THE PREPARATION
CHAPTER I—THE DREAMER AND THE DREAM
CHAPTER II—WINGATE JOURNEYS ON
CHAPTER III—CLAYTON’S VISITORS
CHAPTER IV—SIBYL
CHAPTER V—THE INVASION OF PARADISE
CHAPTER VI—WHEN LOVE WAS YOUNG
CHAPTER VII—WILLIAM SANDERS
CHAPTER VIII—AND MARY WENT TO DENVER
CHAPTER IX—A REVELATION OF CHARACTER
CHAPTER X—PIPINGS OF PAN
CHAPTER XI—THE TRAGEDY OF THE RANGE
CHAPTER XII—WITH SIBYL AND MARY
CHAPTER XIII—WHEN AMBITION CAME
CHAPTER XIV—IN THE STORM
CHAPTER XV—A FLASH OF LIGHTNING
CHAPTER XVI—BEN DAVISON’S TRIUMPH
BOOK TWO—THE BATTLE
CHAPTER I—COWARDICE AND HEROISM
CHAPTER II—THE HARVEST OF THE FIRE
CHAPTER III—LEES OF THE WINE
CHAPTER IV—IN THE WHIRLPOOL
CHAPTER V—HARKNESS AND THE SEER
CHAPTER VI—THE MOTH AND THE FLAME
CHAPTER VII—THE COMPACT
CHAPTER VIII—THE THRALL OF THE PAST
CHAPTER IX—SANDERS TELLS HIS STORY
CHAPTER X—IN THE CRUCIBLE
CHAPTER XI—FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER XII—CHANGING EVENTS
CHAPTER XIII—IN PARADISE VALLEY
CHAPTER XIV—THE DOWNWARD WAY
CHAPTER XV—MARY’S DESPAIR
CHAPTER XVI—THE WAGES OF SIN
CHAPTER XVII—SHADOWS BEFORE
CHAPTER XVIII—PHILOSOPHY GONE MAD
CHAPTER XIX—SIBYL AND CLAYTON
CHAPTER XX—THE RIDE WITH DEATH
CHAPTER XXI—RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XXII—THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
“With a boldness that gripped his throat he slipped his hand along the back of the arbor seat” “The woman sitting there on her chafing horse stared back at him” “Sanders twisted round in his chair and began to draw from his pocket a grimy memorandum book” “Behind them broke a bellowing tumult, as the foremost cattle began to plunge downward into the cañon”
JUSTIN WINGATE, RANCHMAN
BOOK ONE—THE PREPARATION