Front matter
Reading edition
Neither spoke, a daze over them, the dull shock of death’s close passing bewildering and deep. Page 120
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek BY G. W. OGDEN AUTHOR OF THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE, THE LAND OF LAST CHANCE, Etc. FRONTISPIECE BY P. V. E. IVORY
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
Copyright A. C. McClurg & Co. 1921
Published March, 1921
Copyrighted in Great Britain
CONTENTS
I The Sheep Country 1
II Swan Carlson 15
III The Fight 27
IV Keeper of the Flock 34
V Tim Sullivan 49
VI Eyes in the Firelight 57
VII The Easiest Lesson 67
VIII The Sheep-Killer 76
IX A Two-Gun Man 87
X Wild Riders of the Range 97
XI Hector Hall Sets a Beacon 111
XII One Comes to Serve 127
XIII A Fight Almost Lost 136
XIV The Lonesomeness 149
XV Only One Jacob 160
XVI Reid Begins His Play 173
XVII Hertha Carlson 181
XVIII Swan Carlson’s Day 195
XIX Not Cut out for a Sheepman 207
XX A Million Gallops Off 212
XXI Tim Sullivan Breaks a Contract 222
XXII Phantoms of Fever 233
XXIII Concerning Mary 239
XXIV More About Mary 252
XXV One Man’s Joke 262
XXVI Payment on Account 270
XXVII A Summons in the Night 287
XXVIII Swan Carlson Laughs 296
XXIX Sheepman––And More 308