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Title: Lorimer of the Northwest

Author: Harold Bindloss

Illustrator: Alfred James Dewey

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Language: English

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LORIMER OF THE NORTHWEST

[Illustration: We Were in the canyon, Shooting Down the Mad Rush
of a Rapid toward Eternity.--Page 170.]

LORIMER OF THE NORTHWEST

By HAROLD BINDLOSS
Author of By Right of Purchase, Etc.

With Frontispiece By
ALFRED JAMES DEWEY

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers--New York

Copyright, 1909, by

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

All rights reserved

January, 1909

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The First Sowing 7
II. The Church Parade 16
III. "The Land of Promise" 25
IV. An Unpleasant Apprenticeship 35
V. A Bid for Fortune 46
VI. The First Crop 56
VII. Harvest Home 66
VIII. Held Up 77
IX. A Reckoning 91
X. A Forward Policy 105
XI. On the Railroad 117
XII. The Unexpected 128
XIII. Advocates of Temperance 138
XIV. The Hired Teamster 151
XV. Under the Shadow of Death 163
XVI. When the Waters Rose 175
XVII. The Return 184
XVIII. The Opening of the Line 195
XIX. A Generous Offer 209
XX. The Return to the Prairie 220
XXI. The Stolen Cattle 231
XXII. A Race with Time 242
XXIII. On the Gold Trail 253
XXIV. The Brink of Eternity 267
XXV. Ormond's Last Journey 280
XXVI. The Trial 291