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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
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