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Title: Virginia of Elk Creek Valley

Author: Mary Ellen Chase

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VIRGINIA OF ELK CREEK VALLEY

by

MARY ELLEN CHASE

Author of
"The Girl from the Big Horn Country," etc.

[Illustration: "DONALD PULLED IN MACDUFF, AND YELLED TO CARVER TO JUMP"]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers
New York

Published by arrangement with The Page Company

Printed in U. S. A.

Copyright, 1917
by The Page Company
All rights reserved

Made in U. S. A.

TO

MY MOTHER

A REAL ONE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Joy of Anticipation 1
II. The Arrival 11
III. The Getting-Acquainted Trip 23
IV. The Bear Canyon Bear 33
V. Jean Macdonald--Homesteader 49
VI. Miss Green Again 68
VII. The Vigilantes Homestead 88
VIII. Aunt Deborah Hunter--Pioneer 109
IX. Mr. Crusoe of Cripple Creek 126
X. A Letter from Dorothy 146
XI. "Ever Vigilant" 161
XII. The Roman Emperor 180
XIII. On the Mesa 198
XIV. The New School-teacher in Bear Canyon 202
XV. Mr. Benjamin Jarvis Entertains 216
XVI. The Cinnamon Creek Forest Ranger 237
XVII. The Winthrop Coat-of-Arms 251
XVIII. A G