rk and London

THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILS

Copyright, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, by Hamlin Garland
Copyright, 1916, by Harper & Brothers
Printed in the United States of America
Published April, 1916

CONTENTS

PAGE

FOREWORD ix

I. THE GRUB-STAKER 3

II. THE COW-BOSS 31

III. THE REMITTANCE MAN 57

IV. THE LONESOME MAN 81

V. THE TRAIL TRAMP 95

VI. THE PROSPECTOR 155

VII. THE OUTLAW 181

VIII. THE LEASER 237

IX. THE FOREST RANGER 253

AFTERWORD 381

ILLUSTRATIONS

"TAKE ME BACK--INSIDE," ALICE SAID. "I FEEL COLD HERE" _Frontispiece_

"YOU'RE PRETTY SWIFT, AREN'T YOU?" SHE SAID, CUTTINGLY _Facing p._ 38

THE WOMAN CARRIED HERSELF SO UNGRACEFULLY AND DRESSED
SO PLAINLY THAT EVEN THE SALOON-DOOR LOAFERS CAST
CONTEMPTUOUS GLANCES UPON HER _Facing p._ 254

THE AUTHOR AND A FOREST RANGER _Facing p._ 278

_THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD_

_Many changes have swept over the mountain West since twenty years ago,
but romance still clings to the high country. The Grub-Staker, hammer in
hand, still pecking at the float, wanders the hills with hopeful
patience, walking the perilous ledges of the cliffs in endless search of
gold._

_The Cow-Boss, reckless rear-guard of his kind, still urges his
watch-eyed bronco across the roaring streams, or holds his milling herd
in the high parks, but the Remittance Man, wayward son from across the
seas, is gone. Roused to manhood by his country's call, he has joined
the ranks of those who fight to save the shores of his ancestral isle._

_The Prospector still pushes his small pack-mule through the snow of
glacial passes, seeking the unexplored, and therefore more alluring,
mountain ranges._

_The Lonesome Man still seeks forgetfulness of crime in the solitude,
building his cabin in the shadow of great peaks._

_The Trail-Tramp, mounted wanderer, horseman of the restless heart,
still rides from place to place, contemptuous of gold, carrying in his
folded blanket all the vanishing traditions of the wild._

_The Fugitive still seeks sanctuary