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Title: The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

Author: Edgar Beecher Bronson

Release Date: August 17, 2007 [EBook #22350]

Language: English

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THE RED-BLOODED

HEROES OF THE FRONTIER

BY

EDGAR BEECHER BRONSON

Author of "Reminiscences of a Ranchman"

HODDER AND STOUGHTON

LONDON ---- NEW YORK ---- TORONTO

COPYRIGHT

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1910

Published September 10, 1910

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London, England

_The author acknowledges his indebtedness to the
editors of periodicals in which some of this material
has appeared, for permission to use the same in this
volume._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
LOVING'S BEND

CHAPTER II
A COW-HUNTERS' COURT

CHAPTER III
A SELF-CONSTITUTED EXECUTIONER

CHAPTER IV
TRIGGERFINGERITIS

CHAPTER V
A JUGGLER WITH DEATH

CHAPTER VI
AM AERIAL BIVOUAC

CHAPTER VII
THE EVOLUTION OF A TRAIN ROBBER

CHAPTER VIII
CIRCUS DAY AT MANCOS

CHAPTER IX
ACROSS THE BORDER

CHAPTER X
THE THREE-LEGGED DOE AND THE BLIND BUCK

CHAPTER XI
THE LEMON COUNTY HUNT

CHAPTER XII
EL TIGRE

CHAPTER XIII
BUNKERED

CHAPTER XIV
THEY WHO MUST BE OBEYED

CHAPTER XV
DJAMA AOUT'S HEROISM

CHAPTER XVI
A MODERN COEUR-DE-LION

CHAPTER I

LOVING'S BEND

From San Antonio to Fort Griffin, Joe Loving's was a name to conjure
with in the middle sixties. His tragic story is still told and retold
around camp-fires on the Plains.

One of the thriftiest of the pioneer cow-hunters, he was the first to
realize that if he would profit by the fruits of his labor he must push
out to the north in search of a market for his cattle. The Indian
agencies and mining camps of northern New Mexico and Colorado, and the
Mormon settlements of Utah, were the first markets to attract
attention. The problem of reaching them seemed almost hopeless of
solution. Immediately to the north of them the country was trackless