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Title: Bucky O'Connor

Author: William MacLeod Raine

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BUCKY O'CONNOR

A Tale of the Unfenced Border

By William MacLeod Raine

To My Brother

EDGAR C. RAINE

MY DEAR WANDERER:

I write your name on this page that you may know we hold you not less in
our thoughts because you have heard and answered again the call of the
frozen North, have for the time disappeared, swallowed in some of its
untrodden wilds. As in those old days of 59 Below On Bonanza, the long
Winter night will be of interminable length. Armed with this note of
introduction then, Bucky O'Connor offers himself, with the best bow
of one Adventurer to another, as a companion to while away some few of
those lonely hours.

March, 1910, Denver.

BUCKY O'CONNOR

CONTENTS

1. Enter "Bear-Trap" Collins
2. Taxation Without Representation
3. The Sheriff Introduces Himself
4. A Bluff is Called
5. Bucky Entertains
6. Bucky Makes a Discovery
7. In the Land of Revolutions
8. First Blood!
9. "Adore Has Only One D"
10. The Hold-Up of the M. C. P. Flyer
11. "Stone Walls Do Not a Prison Make"
12. A Clean White Man's Option
13. Bucky's First-Rate Reasons
14. Le Roi Est Mort; Vive Le Roi
15. In the Secret Chamber
16. Juan Valdez Scores
17. Hidden Valley
18. A Dinner for Three
19. A Villon of the Desert
20. Back to God's Country
21. The Wolf Pack
22. For a Good Reason

CHAPTER 1. ENTER "BEAR-TRAP" COLLINS

She had been aware of him from the moment of his spectacular entrance,
though no slightest sign of interest manifested itself in her indolent,
incurious eyes. Indeed, his abundant and picturesque area was so vivid
that it would have been difficult not to feel his presence anywhere, let
alone on a journey so monotonous as this was proving to be