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Title: The Rover Boys on the Plains
The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch

Author: Arthur Winfield

Release Date: August 3, 2008 [EBook #26182]

Language: English

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Produced by W. R. Marvin

THE ROVER BOYS ON THE PLAINS

or

THE MYSTERY OF RED ROCK RANCH

By Arthur M. WinField

Grosset & Dunlap Publishers

Copyright 1906 by the Mershon Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ON THE HOUSEBOAT
II. THE BIG LUMBER RAFT
III. A "PEPPER" GHOST
IV. TROUBLE WITH NEGROES
V. DAN BAXTER APPEARS
VI. THE EFFECTS OF A BIG STORM
VII. A DAY ON THE ROAD
VIII. FUN AT THE HOTEL
IX. HANS AS A POET
X. A TWENTY-DOLLAR BILL
XI. A MIDNIGHT SCARE
XII. THE RUNAWAY STEER
XIII. JIM JONES, THE COWBOY
XIV. OUT OF AN UNPLEASANT SITUATION
XV. SOMETHING OF A MYSTERY
XVI. A SCENE FROM A TREETOP
XVII. THE BANK BILLS ON THE TABLE
XVIII. DICK AND SAM BECOME PRISONERS
XIX. PETER POLL, THE DOLT
XX. AN OFFER FROM THE ENEMY
XXI. THROUGH THE FOREST
XXII. IN A SNAKES' DEN
XXIII. JAMES MONDAY TAKES A HAND
XXIV. TOM CARRIES A LETTER
XXV. IN WHICH TOM IS EXPOSED
XXVI. TOGETHER ONCE MORE
XXVII. THE BURNING OF THE RANCH
XXVIII. FROM ONE SURPRISE TO ANOTHER
XXIX. ON THE TRAIL ONCE MORE
XXX. A ROUND-UP--CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION

My Dear Boys: "The Rover Boys on the Plains" is a complete story in
itself, but forms the tenth volume of a line known under the general
title of "The Rover Boys' Series for Young Americans."

Ten volumes make a great number, and, as I look back, I wonder how
I have been able to write so many. As I have said before, when I
started this series I had in mind to pen three volumes and possibly
a fourth. But no sooner had "The Rover Boys at School," "The Rover
Boys on the Ocean," "The Rover Boys in the Jungle" and "The Rover
Boys Out West" appeared than there was a demand for another volume,
and then more, and so I have had to take the boys