,--a country where doors were left unlocked at
night and the windows of the mind were always open,--men who were
always kind to the weak and unprotected, even if they did have hoofs and
horns, men like William B. (Bat) Masterson and Wyatt Earp. They and
their kind made the frontier, that Great West which we can now look back
upon as the most romantic era of our American History._

_I love it; I love all that was ever connected with it; and to all those
who are in sympathy with my crude efforts to set forth what little I
know, to each and every boy who feels a choke in his throat when he
reads the closing lines of "In Memory," I say, I have a choke in my
throat too, and I am silently clutching your hand, for that red boy has
crossed the Big Divide and gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds and the
white boy is saying Farewell._

The Author

CONTENTS

I. An Arrival 1

II. A Surprise 13

III. Mystery 26

IV. Solution 39

V. Bunk-House Talk 51

VI. Boots 66

VII. Education and Other Things 77

VIII. Injun Talks 87

IX. Fish-Hooks and Hooky 115

X. A Hard Job 129

XI. The T Up and Down 139

XII. Felix the Faithless 150

XIII. A Fool's Errand 160

XIV. The Stampede 170

XV. The Cattle-Sheep War 185

XVI. "Medicine" 206

XVII. "The Pride of the West" 218

XVIII. Wonders 229

XIX. Threshing-Time 235

XX. The Story of the Custer Fight 247

XXI. Unrest 263

XXII. The New Order 271

XXIII. Pioneer Days 290

XXIV. "In Memory" 299

ILLUSTRATIONS

They couldn't shoot him--he was going
too fast _Frontispiece_

In Front of Them Stood Sitting Bull 16

Advancing into the Road with both Front
Paws Extended 120

The Man's Figure disappeared through
the Opening, the Bucket falling from
his Hands 202

INJUN AND WHITEY TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER I

AN ARRIVAL

There was no doubt that affairs were rather dull on the Bar O Ranch; at
least they seemed so to "Whitey," otherwise Alan Sherwood. Since he and
his pal, "Injun," had had the adventures incidental to the finding of
the gold in the mountains, there had been nothing doing. So life seemed
tame to Whitey, to whom so many exciting things had happened since he
had come West that he now had a taste for excitement.

It was Saturday, so there were no lessons, and it was a relief to be
free from the teachings of