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Title: The One-Way Trail
A story of the cattle country

Author: Ridgwell Cullum

Release Date: September 27, 2009 [EBook #30113]

Language: English

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represented by pictographs. A pictograph of two stars side by side is
represented in this text by "[double star]" and a pictograph of a
diamond is represented by "[diamond]."

[Illustration: "There's a great big God--just such a God as you and I
have knelt to when we were bits of kiddies."]

THE ONE-WAY TRAIL

A Story of the Cattle Country

By Ridgwell Cullum

Author of "The Watchers of the Plains," "The Sheriff of Dyke Hole,"
"The Trail of the Axe," etc.

"... And the One-Way Trail is just the trail of Life. It's chock full of
pitfalls and stumbling blocks that make us cuss like mad. But it's good
for us to walk over it. There are no turnings or bye-paths, and no
turning back. And maybe when we get to the end something will have been
achieved in His scheme of things that our silly brains can't grasp...."

PHILADELPHIA

GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1911, by George W. Jacobs and Company

CONTENTS

I. A GENTLEMAN RANKER 7
II. A SHOOTING MATCH 18
III. IN BARNRIFF 28
IV. JIM PROPOSES 36
V. TO THE RED, DANCING DEVIL 53
VI. EVE AND WILL 71
VII. THE CHICKEN-KILLING 78
VIII. THE "BOYS" OF THE VILLAGE 86
IX. A WOMAN'S CARE 101
X. AN EVIL NIGHT 113
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