THE GREAT K. & A. TRAIN-ROBBERY
Reading edition
The Great K. & A. Robbery
By Paul Leicester Ford Author of The Honorable Peter Stirling
New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1897
Copyright, 1896, By J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1897, By Dodd, Mead and Company. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.
TO MY TRAVELLING COMPANIONS ON SPECIALS 218 AND 97 THIS ENDEAVOR TO WEAVE INTO A STORY SOME OF OUR OVERLAND HAPPENINGS AND ADVENTURES IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.
TO MISS GEORGE BARKER GIBBS.
My dear George:
At your request I originally inscribed this skit to our whole party. In its republication, however, I can but feel that the dedication should be more particular. Written because you asked it, first read aloud to beguile our ride across the great American desert, and finally printed because you wished a copy as a souvenir of our journeyings, no one can so naturally be called upon to stand sponsor to the little tale. Should the story but give its readers a fraction of the pleasure I owe to your kindness, its success is assured.
Faithfully yours,
PAUL LEICESTER FORD.