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Title: Sundown Slim

Author: Henry Hubert Knibbs

Illustrator: Anton Fischer

Release Date: July 20, 2005 [EBook #16334]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: "You!" she exclaimed. "You!"]

SUNDOWN SLIM

BY

HENRY HERBERT KNIBBS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

ANTON FISCHER

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY HENRY HERBERT KNIBBS

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published May 1915

DEDICATED TO

EVERETT E. HARASZTHY

Contents

Chapter

ARIZONA
I. SUNDOWN IN ANTELOPE
II. THE JOKE
III. THIRTY MILES TO THE CONCHO
IV. PIE; AND SEPTEMBER MORN
V. ON THE CANON TRAIL
VI. THE BROTHERS
VII. FADEAWAY'S HAND
VIII. AT "THE LAST CHANCE"
IX. SUNDOWN'S FRIEND
X. THE STORM
XI. CHANCE--CONQUEROR
XII. A GIFT
XIII. SUNDOWN, VAQUERO
XIV. ON THE TRAIL TO THE BLUE
XV. THEY KILLED THE BOSS!
XVI. SUNDOWN ADVENTURES
XVII. THE STRANGER
XVIII. THE SHERIFF--AND OTHERS
XIX. THE ESCAPE
XX. THE WALKING MAN
XXI. ON THE MESA
XXII. WAIT!
XXIII. THE PEACEMAKER
XXIV. AN UNEXPECTED VISIT
XXV. VAMOSE, EH?
XXVI. THE INVADERS
XXVII. "JUST ME AND HER"
XXVIII. IMPROVEMENTS
XXIX. A MAN'S COUNTRY

List of Illustrations

"You!" she exclaimed. "You!" . . . " . . . _Frontispiece_

"God A'mighty, sech things is wrong."

Arizona

Across the wide, sun-swept mesas the steel trail of the railroad runs
east and west, diminishing at either end to a shimmering blur of
silver. South of the railroad these level immensities, rich in their
season with ripe bunch-grass and grama-grass roll up to the barrier of
the far blue hills of spruce and pine. The red, ragged shoulders of
buttes blot the sky-line here and there; wind-worn and grotesque
silhouettes of gigantic fortifications, castles and villages wrought by
some volcanic Cyclops who grew tired of hi