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Title: The Mountain Divide

Author: Frank H. Spearman

Illustrator: Armand Both

Release Date: August 10, 2009 [EBook #29656]

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THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE

BOOKS BY FRANK H. SPEARMAN

PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

ROBERT KIMBERLY. Illustrated by James
Montgomery Flagg. 12mo Net $1.30

WHISPERING SMITH. A Story of Rocky Mountain
Life. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. 12mo $1.50

THE DAUGHTER OF A MAGNATE. Illustrated. 12mo $1.50

DOCTOR BRYSON. A Novel. 12mo $1.50

THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE. Illustrated. 12mo Net $1.25

THE STRATEGY OF GREAT RAILROADS.
With Maps. 12mo Net $1.50

[Illustration: AS BUCK'S STRAINING EYE FOLLOWED THE MOVEMENT, THE SECOND
INDIAN STRUCK THE CLUB DOWN.]

THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE

BY

FRANK H. SPEARMAN

ILLUSTRATED BY

ARMAND BOTH

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

NEW YORK :: 1912

Copyright, 1912, by

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

Published September, 1912

THIS STORY WITHOUT LOVE,

IS NONE THE LESS LOVINGLY INSCRIBED

TO

MY YOUNGEST SON

ARTHUR DUNNING SPEARMAN

ILLUSTRATIONS

As Buck's straining eye followed the movement, the
second Indian struck the club down. _Frontispiece_
It was only after a moment that the lineman could be
seen to gain. 92
"Let that gate alone or I'll brain you," he cried. 250
For Scott to draw and fire was but one movement. 300

THE MOUNTAIN DIVIDE

CHAPTER I

Night had fallen and a warm rain drifting down from the mountains hung
in a mist over the railroad yards and obscured the lights of Medicine
Bend. Two men dismounting from their drooping horses at the foot of
Front Street threw the reins to a man in