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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Iron Furrow, by George C. Shedd This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Iron Furrow Author: George C. Shedd Illustrator: Henry A. Botkin Release Date: November 18, 2005 [EBook #17088] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE IRON FURROW *** Produced by David Garcia, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net * * * * * +-----------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: A number of very obvious | | typographical errors have been corrected in this | | text. For a complete list please see the bottom of | | the document. | +-----------------------------------------------------+ * * * * * [Illustration: "UNDER THE HAT BRIM DRAWN FORWARD TO HIS LINE OF VISION HIS EYES ... GAZED FORTH KEEN AND OBSERVANT"] THE IRON FURROW BY GEORGE C. SHEDD FRONTISPIECE BY HENRY A. BOTKIN A.L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with Doubleday, Page & Company COPYRIGHT, 1919, 1920, BY DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y. THE IRON FURROW THE IRON FURROW CHAPTER I The Ventisquero Range stretches across the circumference of one's vision in a procession of mountains that come tall and blue out of the distant north and seemingly march past to vanish in the remote south like azure phantoms. The mountains wall the horizon and dominate the mesa, their black forest-clad flanks crumpled and broken and gashed by canons, lifting above timber-line peaks of bare brown rock that pierce the clouds floating along the range. At sunrise they cast immense shadows upon the mesa spreading westward from their base; and at sunset they reflect golden and purple glows upon the plain until the earth appears swimming in some iridescent sea of ether; while over them from d
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