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Title: The Flockmaster of Poison Creek

Author: George W. Ogden

Illustrator: P. V. E. Ivory

Release Date: August 11, 2009 [EBook #29668]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Neither spoke, a daze over them, the dull shock of death's
close passing bewildering and deep. _Page_ 120]

THE FLOCKMASTER OF POISON CREEK

BY

G. W. OGDEN

AUTHOR OF

THE DUKE OF CHIMNEY BUTTE, THE LAND OF LAST CHANCE, Etc.

FRONTISPIECE BY P. V. E. IVORY

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

Copyright

A. C. McClurg & Co.

1921

Published March, 1921

Copyrighted in Great Britain

CONTENTS

I The Sheep Country 1
II Swan Carlson 15
III The Fight 27
IV Keeper of the Flock 34
V Tim Sullivan 49
VI Eyes in the Firelight 57
VII The Easiest Lesson 67
VIII The Sheep-Killer 76
IX A Two-Gun Man 87
X Wild Riders of the Range 97
XI Hector Hall Sets a Beacon 111
XII One Comes to Serve 127
XIII A Fight Almost Lost 136
XIV The Lonesomeness 149
XV Only One Jacob 160
XVI Reid Begins His Play 173
XVII Hertha Carlson 181
XVIII Swan Carlson's Day