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Title: The Saddle Boys of the Rockies
Lost on Thunder Mountain

Author: James Carson

Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19120]

Language: English

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[Illustration: THE BIG POWERFUL BLACK ACTED AS THOUGH HE HAD GONE WILD.]

The Saddle Boys of the Rockies

Or

Lost on Thunder Mountain

BY

CAPTAIN JAMES CARSON

AUTHOR OF

"THE SADDLE BOYS IN THE GRAND CANYON,"
"THE SADDLE BOYS ON THE PLAINS,"
"THE SADDLE BOYS AT CIRCLE RANCH," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

Copyrighted 1913, by

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

THE SADDLE BOYS OF THE ROCKIES

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. ACCEPTING A CHALLENGE
II. THE STRANGE ACTIONS OF DOMINO
III. OLD HANK COOMBS BEARS A MESSAGE
IV. A NOTE OF WARNING AT THE SPRING HOLE
V. THE VOICE OF THE MOUNTAIN
VI. A SECOND ALARM
VII. THE "RUSTLERS"
VIII. A STARTLING DISCOVERY
IX. WHAT HAPPENED TO PEG
X. THREATS OF TROUBLE
XI. THE BLACK NIGHT
XII. LOSING THEIR BEARINGS
XIII. THE SMOKE TRAIL
XIV. A CALL FOR HELP
XV. SPANISH JOE DROPS A HINT
XVI. THE VENT HOLE IN THE WALL
XVII. FRANK HOLDS THE HOT STICK
XVIII. A GUESS THAT HITS THE BULLSEYE
XIX. THE WORKING OF THE GOLD LODE
XX. TRAPPED IN THE CANYON
XXI. A CLOSE CALL
XXII. ONCE MORE AT CIRCLE RANCH--CONCLUSION

THE SADDLE BOYS OF THE ROCKIES

CHAPTER I

ACCEPTING A CHALLENGE

"Hello! what brought you here, Frank Haywood, I'd like to know?"

"Well, I reckon my horse, Buckskin, did, Peg."

"And who's this with you--your new chum; the boy from Kentucky?"

"That's who it is, Peg--Bob Archer; and he's come out West to see how
life on the plains suits him."

"Oh! a greenhorn, eh?"

"Perhaps some people might call him that, though he knows a heap about
horses. But seems to me, Peg, 'twasn't so very long ago that you
yourself dropped in on us here. Since when did you climb up out