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Title: Santa Fe's Partner
Being Some Memorials of Events in a New-Mexican Track-end Town

Author: Thomas A. Janvier

Release Date: October 28, 2009 [EBook #30352]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "'LOOK! LOOK! THERE BY THOSE LITTLE BUSHES!'"]

Santa Fe's Partner

Being Some Memorials of Events in a

New-Mexican Track-end Town

By

Thomas A. Janvier

Author of

"The Passing of Thomas" "The Uncle of an Angel"
"The Aztec Treasure-House" "In the Sargasso Sea" Etc. Etc.

New York and London

Harper & Brothers Publishers

1907

Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.

All rights reserved.

Published September, 1907.

TO

C. A. J.

CONTENTS

I. PALOMITAS 1
II. THE SAGE-BRUSH HEN 15
III. HART'S NEPHEW'S HOLD-UP 44
IV. SANTA FE CHARLEY'S KINDERGARTEN 77
V. BOSTON'S LION-HUNT 127
VI. SHORTY SMITH'S HANGING 163
VII. THE PURIFICATION OF PALOMITAS 208

Illustrations

"'LOOK! LOOK! THERE BY THOSE LITTLE BUSHES!'" _Frontispiece_
"HER LEFT HAND WAS LAYING IN HER LAP, AND THE OLD
GENT GOT A-HOLD OF IT" 22
"WROTE OUT A NOTICE THAT WAS TACKED UP ON THE DEEPO
DOOR" 84
"'ONE OF THE NEW GERMAN KINDERGARTEN APPLIANCES'" 120
"STARING 'ROUND THE PLACE SAME AS IF HE'D STRUCK A
MENAGERIE" 132
"'IT'S HOTTER THAN SAHARA!' SAID THE ENGLISHMAN" 166
"AND DOWN HART WENT IN A HEAP ON THE FLOOR" 196
"'DON'T HANG HIM, SIR!' SHE GROAN