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Title: Trail's End

Author: George W. Ogden

Release Date: February 28, 2007 [eBook #20712]

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TRAIL'S END

by

G. W. OGDEN

Author of
The Duke of Chimney Butte,
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek,
The Land of Last Chance, Etc.

Frontispiece by P. V. E. Ivory

[Illustration: Morgan, grim as judgment, stood among the crowd of
wastrels and women of poisoned lips (Page 229)]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York
Made in the United States of America

Copyright
A. C. McClurg & Co.
1921
Published September, 1921
Copyrighted in Great Britain

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I The Unconquered Land 1
II The Meat Hunter 11
III First Blood 23
IV The Optimist Explains 36
V Ascalon Awake 54
VI Riders of the Chisholm Trail 65
VII A Gentle Cowboy Joke 77
VIII The Atavism of a Man 87
IX News from Ascalon 101
X The Hour of Vengeance 111
XI The Penalty 124
XII In Place of a Regiment 141
XIII The Hand of the Law 157
XIV Some Fool With a Gun 165
XV Will His Luck Hold? 176
XVI The Meat Hunter Comes 187
XVII With Clean Hands 199
XVIII A Bondsman Breathes Easier