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Title: Winston of the Prairie

Author: Harold Bindloss

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WINSTON OF THE PRAIRIE

by

HAROLD BINDLOSS

Author of _Alton of Somasco_, _The Cattle-Baron's Daughter_,
_The Dust of Conflict_, etc.

Illustrated by W. Herbert Dunton

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

1907

[Illustration: Cover Art]

[Frontispiece: Floundering on foot beside them
he urged the team through the powdery drifts.]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. RANCHER WINSTON
II. LANCE COURTHORNE
III. TROOPER SHANNON'S QUARREL
IV. IN THE BLUFF
V. MISS BARRINGTON COMES HOME
VI. ANTICIPATIONS
VII. WINSTON'S DECISION
VIII. WINSTON COMES TO SILVERDALE
IX. COURTHORNE DISAPPEARS
X. AN ARMISTICE
XI. MAUD BARRINGTON'S PROMISE
XII. SPEED THE PLOW
XIII. MASTERY RECOGNIZED
XIV. A FAIR ADVOCATE
XV. THE UNEXPECTED
XVI. FACING THE FLAME
XVII. MAUD BARRINGTON IS MERCILESS
XVIII. WITH THE STREAM
XIX. UNDER TEST
XX. COURTHORNE BLUNDERS
XXI. THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
XXII. COLONEL BARRINGTON IS CONVINCED
XXIII. SERGEANT STIMSON CONFIRMS HIS SUSPICIONS
XXIV. THE REVELATION
XXV. COURTHORNE MAKES REPARATION
XXVI. WINSTON RIDES AWAY
XXVII. REINSTATEMENT

ILLUSTRATIONS

FLOUNDERING ON FOOT BESIDE THEM HE URGED THE TEAM
THROUGH THE POWDERY DRIFTS . . . . . Frontispiece

MAUD BARRINGTON LAUGHED A LITTLE

HE COULD SEE THE WHEAT ROLL IN SLOW RIPPLES BACK
INTO THE DISTANCE

[Transcriber's note: The "He could see..." illu