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Title: The Sagebrusher
A Story of the West

Author: Emerson Hough

Illustrator: J. Henry

Release Date: September 26, 2006 [EBook #19388]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: "You're a good sport," said Major Barnes]

THE SAGEBRUSHER

A STORY OF THE WEST

BY

EMERSON HOUGH

AUTHOR OF THE COVERED WAGON, THE BROKEN GATE, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY

J. HENRY

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY

EMERSON HOUGH

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. SIM GAGE AT HOME
II. WANTED: A WIFE
III. FIFTY-FIFTY
IV. HEARTS AFLAME
V. BEGGAR MAN--THIEF
VI. RICH MAN--POOR MAN
VII. CHIVALROUS; AND OF ABUNDANT MEANS
VIII. RIVAL CONSCIENCES
IX. THE HALT AND THE BLIND
X. NEIGHBORS
XI. THE COMPANY DOCTOR
XII. LEFT ALONE
XIII. THE SABCAT CAMP
XIV. THE MAN TRAIL
XV. THE SPECIES
XVI. THE REBIRTH OF SIM GAGE
XVII. SAGEBRUSHERS
XVIII. DONNA QUIXOTE
XIX. THE PLEDGE
XX. MAJOR ALLEN BARNES, M.D., PH.D.--AND SIM GAGE
XXI. WITH THIS RING
XXII. MRS. GAGE
XXIII. THE OUTLOOK
XXIV. ANNIE MOVES IN
XXV. ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE
XXVI. THE WAYS OF MR. GARDNER
XXVII. DORENWALD, CHIEF
XXVIII. A CHANGE OF BASE
XXIX. MARTIAL LAW
XXX. BEFORE DAWN
XXXI. THE BLIND SEE
XXXII. THE ENEMY
XXXIII. THE DAM
XXXIV. AFTER THE DELUGE
XXXV. ANNIE ANSWERS
XXXVI. MRS. DAVIDSON'S CONSCIENCE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"You're a good sport," said Major Barnes . . . _Frontispiece_

"You ought to hang!" said she

"You say I shall be able to see him--my husband?"

"Get a board, or something, boys"

THE SAGEBRUSHER

CHAPTER I

SIM GAGE AT HOME

"Sim," said Wid Gardner, as he cast a frowning glance around him, "take
it one way with another, and I expect this is a leetle the dirtiest
place in the Two-Forks Valley."

The man accosted did no more than