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Title: Boy Scouts on the Great Divide
or, The Ending of the Trail

Author: Archibald Lee Fletcher

Release Date: March 3, 2010 [EBook #31487]

Language: English

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Boy Scouts on the Great Divide;

or, The Ending of the Trail

By Archibald Lee Fletcher

Chicago

M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY

Copyright 1913

MADE IN U.S.A.

CONTENTS

I--A BOY SCOUT

II--THE RUNAWAY

III--THE CASE IS STATED

IV--A CHASE IN THE NIGHT

V--A DETECTIVE AND A ROBBER

VI--THE CALL OF THE BEAVER

VII--ARRESTED AS SPIES

VIII--A MIDNIGHT BEAR HUNT

IX--LYNCHING IS THREATENED

X--ONE DANGER TO ANOTHER

XI--A WYOMING HOLD-UP

XII--AN INTERRUPTED WIG-WAG

XIII--TOMMY GOES AFTER BEAR STEAK

XIV--A PAIR OF PRISONERS

XV--AN UNDERGROUND CHANNEL

XVI--CULLEN LOSES HIS STAR

XVII--A MEETING UNDER GROUND

XVIII--THE FINDING OF WAGNER

XIX--SHERIFF PETE'S WINK

XX--DETECTIVES IN TROUBLE

XXI--CONCLUSION

Boy Scouts on the Great Divide;

or, The Ending of the Trail

CHAPTER I

A BOY SCOUT CAMP

On a sunny September afternoon two shelter tents stood in a mountain
valley, on the south bank of a creek which, miles and miles below,
becomes the Sweetwater river.

Above the flap of each tent lifted a yellow pennant, in the center of
which a blue beaver stood in an alert and listening attitude, his flat
tail outstretched.

A campfire blazed in front of the two tents, and some distance away four
bronchos fed noisily on the sweet grass of the valley. Tinned provisions
and cooking utensils were scattered here and there in front of the
blaze, and four boys wearing the khaki uniform of the Boy Scouts of
America were busily engaged in preparing supper.

Those who have read the previous volumes of this series will require no
introduction to Will Smith, George Benton, Charley (Sandy) Green, or
Tommy Gregory. As will be re