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Title: In the Musgrave Ranges

Author: Jim Bushman

Release Date: May 22, 2009 [EBook #28931]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: THE OUTPOST OF DEATH _Page 253_]

IN THE

MUSGRAVE RANGES

BY

JIM BUSHMAN

Author of "The Golden Valley" &c.

BLACKIE & SON LIMITED

LONDON AND GLASGOW

1922

[Transcriber's Note: "Jim Bushman" is a pseudonym of Conrad H. Sayce.]

Blackie's Imperial Library

Ann's Great Adventure. E. E. Cowper.
The Golden Magnet. G. Manville Fenn.
Every Inch a Briton. Meredith Fletcher.
'Twixt Earth and Sky. C. R. Kenyon.
In the Musgrave Ranges. Jim Bushman.
No Ordinary Girl. Bessie Marchant.
Norah to the Rescue. Bessie Marchant.
What Happened to Kitty. Theodora Wilson Wilson.

Contents

CHAP.

I. A TORNADO
II. CAMELS
III. A MESSAGE FROM THE UNKNOWN
IV. WILD CATTLE
V. RIDING TESTS
VI. SMOKE SIGNALS
VII. STEALTHY FOES
VIII. FIRST SIGHT OF THE MUSGRAVES
IX. DISASTER
X. A SANDSTORM
XI. THIRST
XII. THE RESCUE
XIII. SIDCOTINGA STATION
XIV. A MAD BULL
XV. A NIGHT ALARM
XVI. MUSTERING
XVII. THE BRANDED WARRAGUL
XVIII. REVENGE
XIX. CHIVALRY IN THE DESERT
XX. THE BULL-ROARER
XXI. HORSESHOE BEND
XXII. FACING DEATH
XXIII. A FRIEND AND A FOE
XXIV. A PRISONER
XXV. THE OUTPOST OF DEATH
XXVI. ARRKROO, THE HATER
XXVII. THE DANCE OF DEATH
XXVIII. CONCLUSION

IN THE MUSGRAVE RANGES

CHAPTER I

A Tornado

Towards the end of a long hot day, a shabby mixed train stopped at one
of the most wonderful townships in the world, Hergott Springs, the
first of the great cattle-trucking depots of Central Australia. It was
dark, but a hurricane lantern, swung under a veranda, showed that the
men who were waiting for the train were not ordinary men. They were
men of the desert. Most of them were tall, thin,