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Title: Kid Wolf of Texas
A Western Story

Author: Ward M. Stevens

Release Date: August 26, 2008 [EBook #22057]

Language: English

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Kid Wolf Of Texas

A Western Story

By

WARD M. STEVENS

CHELSEA HOUSE

79 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y.

PUBLISHERS

Kid Wolf Of Texas

Copyright, 1930, by CHELSEA HOUSE

Printed in the U. S. A.

All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE LIVING DEAD
II. A THANKLESS TASK
III. THE GOVERNOR'S ANSWER
IV. SURPRISES
V. THE CAMP OF THE TERROR
VI. ON THE CHISHOLM TRAIL
VII. MCCAY'S RECRUIT
VIII. ONE GAME HOMBRE
IX. THE NIGHT HERD
X. TUCUMCARI'S HAND
XI. A BUCKSHOT GREETING
XII. THE S BAR SPREAD
XIII. DESPERATE MEASURES
XIV. AT DON FLORISTO'S
XV. GOLIDAY'S CHOICE
XVI. A GAME OF POKER
XVII. POT SHOTS
XVIII. ON BLACKSNAKE'S TRAIL
XIX. THE FANG OF THE WOLF
XX. BATTLE ON THE MESA
XXI. APACHES
XXII. THE RESCUE
XXIII. TWO OPEN GRAVES
XXIV. PURSUIT
XXV. BLIZZARD'S CHARGE

KID WOLF OF TEXAS

CHAPTER I

THE LIVING DEAD

"Oh, I want to go back to the Rio Grande!
The Rio!
That's where I long to be!"

The words, sung in a soft and musical tenor, died away and changed to a
plaintive whistle, leaving the scene more lonely than ever. For a few
moments nothing was to be seen except the endless expanse of
wilderness, and nothing was to be heard save the mournful warble of the
singer. Then a horse and rider were suddenly framed where the sparse
timber opened out upon the plain.

Together, man and mount made a striking picture; yet it would have been
hard to say which was the more picturesque--the rider or the horse.
The latter w