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Title: The Flying U's Last Stand

Author: B. M. Bower

Posting Date: October 5, 2008 [EBook #1740]
Release Date: May, 1999

Language: English

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THE FLYING-U'S LAST STAND

By B. M. Bower

CONTENTS

1. OLD WAYS AND NEW

2. ANDY GREEN'S NEW ACQUAINTANCE

3. THE KID LEARNS SOME THINGS ABOUT HORSES

4. ANDY TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME

5. THE HAPPY FAMILY TURN NESTERS

6. THE FIRST BLOW IN THE FIGHT

7. THE COMING OF THE COLONY

8. FLORENCE GRACE HALLMAN SPEAKS PLAINLY

9. THE HAPPY FAMILY BUYS A BUNCH OF CATTLE

10. WHEREIN ANDY GREEN LIES TO A LADY

ll. THE MOVING CHAPTER IN EVENTS

12. SHACKS, LIVESTOCK AND PILGRIMS PROMPTLY AND PAINFULLY
REMOVED

13. IRISH WORKS FOR THE CAUSE

14. JUST ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER

15. THE KID HAS IDEAS OF HIS OWN

16. "A RELL OLD COWPUNCHER"

17. "LOST CHILD"

18. THE LONG WAY ROUND

19. HER NAME WAS ROSEMARY

20. THE RELL OLD COWPUNCHER GOES HOME

21. THE FIGHT GOES ON

22. LAWFUL IMPROVEMENTS

23. THE WATER QUESTION AND SOME GOSSIP

24. THE KID IS USED FOR A PAWN IN THE GAME

25. "LITTLE BLACK SHACK'S ALL BURNT UP!"

26. ROSEMARY ALLEN DOES A SMALL SUM IN ADDITION

27. "IT'S AWFUL EASY TO GET LOST"

28. AS IT TURNED OUT

THE FLYING U'S LAST STAND

CHAPTER 1. OLD WAYS AND NEW

Progress is like the insidious change from youth to old age, except that
progress does not mean decay. The change that is almost imperceptible
and yet inexorable is much the same, however. You will see a community
apparently changeless as the years pass by; and yet, when the years have
gone and you look back, there has been a change. It is not the same.
It never will be the same. It can pass through further change, but it
cannot go back. Men look back sick sometimes with longing for the things
that were and that can be no more; they live the old d