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Title: The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

Author: Henry Herbert Knibbs

Illustrator: Stanley L. Wood and R. M. Brinkerhoff

Release Date: August 14, 2005 [EBook #16530]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: The Ridin' Kid]

THE RIDIN' KID FROM POWDER RIVER

_By_

HENRY HERBERT KNIBBS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BOSTON AND NEW YORK.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY HENRY HERBERT KNIBBS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

I. YOUNG PETE
II. FIREARMS AND NEW FORTUNES
III. A WARNING
IV. JUSTICE
V. A CHANGE OF BASE
VI. NEW VISTAS
VII. PLANS
VIII. SOME BOOKKEEPING
IX. ROWDY--AND BLUE SMOKE
X. "TURN HIM LOOSE!"
XI. POP ANNERSLEY'S BOY
XII. IN THE PIT
XIII. GAME
XIV. THE KITTY-CAT
XV. FOUR MEN
XVI. THE OPEN HOLSTER
XVII. A FALSE TRAIL
XVIII. THE BLACK SOMBRERO
XIX. THE SPIDER
XX. BULL MALVEY
XXI. BOCA DULZURA
XXII. "A DRESS--OR A RING--PERHAPS"
XXIII. THE DEVIL-WIND
XXIV. "A RIDER STOOD AT THE LAMPLIT BAR"
XXV. "PLANTED--OUT THERE"
XXVI. THE OLLA
XXVII. OVER THE LINE
XXVIII. A GAMBLE
XXIX. QUERY
XXX. BRENT'S MISTAKE
XXXI. FUGITIVE
XXXII. EL PASO
XXXIII. THE SPIDER'S ACCOUNT
XXXIV. DORIS
XXXV. "CAUGHT IT JUST IN TIME"
XXXVI. WHITE-EYE
XXXVII. "CLOSE THE CASES"
XXXVIII. GETTING ACQUAINTED
XXXIX. A PUZZLE GAME
XL. THE MAN DOWNSTAIRS
XLI. "A LAND FAMILIAR"
XLII. "OH, SAY TWO THOUSAND"
XLIII. A NEW HAT--A NEW TRAIL
XLIV. THE OLD TRAIL
XLV. HOME FOLKS
XLVI. THE RIDIN' KID FROM POWDER RIVER

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE RIDIN' KID . . . . _Colored Frontispiece_

_Drawn by Stanley L. Wood_

"SAY, AIN'T WE PARDNERS?"

PETE

COTTON HEARD PETE'S HAND STRIKE THE BUTT OF HIS GUN
AS THE HOLSTER TILTED UP