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Title: The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River
or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers

Author: Willard F. Baker

Illustrator: Howard L. Hastings

Release Date: October 29, 2008 [EBook #27096]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOY RANCHERS ON ROARING RIVER ***

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[Transcriber's note: Extensive research found no evidence
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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: "AND WIN HE DID." _Boy Ranchers on Roaring River._]

THE

BOY RANCHERS

ON ROARING RIVER

OR

_Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers_

By

WILLARD F. BAKER

Author of

"The Boy Ranchers,"
"The Boy Ranchers in Camp,"
"The Boy Ranchers at Spur Creek,"
"The Boy Ranchers in the Desert," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED_

NEW YORK

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

THE BOY RANCHERS SERIES

By WILLARD F. BAKER

12mo. Cloth. Frontispiece

THE BOY RANCHERS
Or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X

THE BOY RANCHERS IN CAMP
Or the Water Fight at Diamond X

THE BOY RANCHERS ON THE TRAIL
Or Diamond X after Cattle Rustlers

THE BOY RANCHERS AMONG THE INDIANS
Or Diamond X Trailing the Yaquis

THE BOY RANCHERS AT SPUR CREEK
Or Diamond X Fighting the Sheep Herders

THE BOY RANCHERS IN THE DESERT
Or Diamond X and the Lost Mine

THE BOY RANCHERS ON ROARING RIVER
Or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, New York

COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY

CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

THE BOY RANCHERS ON ROARING RIVER

Printed in U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A DANGEROUS MISSION
II A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE
III A SUSPICIOUS VISITOR
IV THE HIDDEN GUNMAN
V ARRIVAL AT THE RANCH
VI THE THREAT
VII A SHEEPLESS SHEEP RANCH
VIII CYCLONE
IX DELTON RETURNS
X BUD FINDS A NOTE
XI JOE HAWKINS'S VISIT
XII THE STORY OF SMUGGLING
XIII TRAPPED
XIV TO-MORROW NIGHT
XV BILLEE DOBB'S STORY
XVI BUD'S ESCAPE
X