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Title: The Range Dwellers

Author: B. M. Bower

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THE RANGE DWELLERS

by

B. M. BOWER
(B. M. SINCLAIR)

Author of _Chip of the Flying U_, _The Lonesome Trail_, _Her Prairie
Knight_, _The Lure of the Dim Trails_, _The Happy Family_, _The Long
Shadow_, etc.

Illustrated By Charles M. Russell

New York; Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers

1906

[Illustration: "She turned her back on me, and went imperturbably on with
her sketching." (Frontispiece)]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. The Reward of Folly

II. The White Divide

III. The Quarrel Renewed

IV. Through King's Highway

V. Into the Lion's Mouth

VI. I ask Beryl King to Dance

VII. One Day Too Late

VIII. A Fight and a Race for Life

IX. The Old Life--and the New

X. I Shake Hands with Old Man King

XI. A Cable Snaps

XII. I Begin to Realize

XIII. We Meet Once More

XIV. Frosty Disappears

XV. The Broken Motor-car

XVI. One More Race

XVII. The Final Reckoning

CHAPTER I.

The Reward of Folly.

I'm something like the old maid you read about--the one who always knows
all about babies and just how to bring them up to righteous maturity; I've
got a mighty strong conviction that I know heaps that my dad never thought
of about the proper training for a healthy male human. I don't suppose
I'll ever have a chance to demonstrate my wisdom, but, if