34
V. STARTING FOR THE GRAND CANYON 46
VI. BUCKSKIN ON GUARD 54
VII. STANDING BY THE LAW 62
VIII. THE MOQUI WHO WAS CAUGHT NAPPING 71
IX. "TALK ABOUT LUCK!" 79
X. THE COPPER-COLORED MESSENGER 87
XI. AT THE GRAND CANYON 98
XII. HOW THE LITTLE TRAP WORKED 105
XIII. GOING DOWN THE CANYON TRAIL 116
XIV. THE HOME OF THE CLIFF DWELLERS 124
XV. THE TREACHEROUS GUIDE 135
XVI. A WONDERFUL DISCOVERY 143
XVII. THE WINDOWS IN THE ROCKY WALLS 151
XVIII. FINDING A WAY UP 158
XIX. FORTUNE STILL FAVORS THE BRAVE 167
XX. ANOTHER SURPRISE 175
XXI. THE LITTLE OLD MAN OF ECHO CAVE 184
XXII. TURNING THE TABLES--CONCLUSION 195
THE SADDLE BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON
CHAPTER I
THE WORK OF THE WOLF PACK
"Hold up, Bob!"
"Any signs of the lame yearling, Frank?"
"Well, there seems to be something over yonder to the west; but the sage
crops up, and interferes a little with my view."
"Here, take the field glasses and look; while I cinch my saddle girth,
which has loosened again."
Frank Haywood adjusted the glasses to his eye. Then, rising in his
saddle, he gazed long and earnestly in the direction he had indicated.
Meanwhile his companion, also a lad, a native of Kentucky, and answering
to the name of Bob Archer, busied himself about the band of his saddle,
having leaped to the ground.
Frank was the only son of a rancher and mine owner, Colonel Leonidas
Haywood, who was a man of some wealth. Frank had blue eyes, and
tawny-colored hair; and, since much of his life had been spent on the
plains among the cattle men, he knew considerable about the ways of
cowboys and hunters, though always ready to pick up information from
veterans of the trail.
Bob had come to the far Southwest as a tenderfoot; but
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