Front matter
Reading edition
“DONALD PULLED IN MACDUFF, AND YELLED TO CARVER TO JUMP”
VIRGINIA OF
ELK CREEK VALLEY
By MARY ELLEN CHASE
AUTHOR OF
“The Girl from the Big Horn Country,” etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers
New York
Published by arrangement with The Page Company
Printed in U. S. A.
Copyright, 1917
BY THE PAGE COMPANY
All rights reserved
Made in U. S. A.
TO
My Mother
A REAL ONE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Joy of Anticipation 1
II. The Arrival 11
III. The Getting-Acquainted Trip 23
IV. The Bear Canyon Bear 33
V. Jean Macdonald—Homesteader 49
VI. Miss Green Again 68
VII. The Vigilantes Homestead 88
VIII. Aunt Deborah Hunter—Pioneer 109
IX. Mr. Crusoe of Cripple Creek 126
X. A Letter from Dorothy 146
XI. “Ever Vigilant” 161
XII. The Roman Emperor 180
XIII. On the Mesa 198
XIV. The New School-teacher in Bear Canyon 202
XV. Mr. Benjamin Jarvis Entertains 216
XVI. The Cinnamon Creek Forest Ranger 237
XVII. The Winthrop Coat-of-Arms 251
XVIII. A Good Sport 262
XIX. Carver Standish III Fits In 277
XX. Comrades 286
VIRGINIA
OF
ELK CREEK VALLEY