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Title: Colorado Jim

Author: George Goodchild

Release Date: December 8, 2008 [eBook #27453]

Language: English

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"COLORADO JIM"

by

GEORGE GOODCHILD

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers--New York
Published by arrangement with W. J. Watt & Company
Printed in U. S. A.

Copyright, 1922, by
W. J. Watt & Company
All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A SON OF THE WEST 1
II. THE BRIGHT LIGHTS 14
III. SOCIAL ADVANCEMENT 28
IV. ANGELA 48
V. FROST AND FIRE 69
VI. THE GREAT AWAKENING 86
VII. THE CLIMAX 100
VIII. THE WHITE TRAIL 114
IX. HIGH STAKES 127
X. ANGELA MEETS A FRIEND 144
XI. FRUITLESS TOIL 157
XII. INTO THE WILDERNESS 171
XIII. THE TERROR OF THE NORTH 186
XIV. THE BREAKING-POINT 198
XV. THE QUEST 208
XVI. THE GREAT LIE 224
XVII. A CHANGE OF FRONT 234
XVIII. A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE 245
XIX. THE CRISIS 258
XX. COMPLICATIONS 268
XXI. NATALIE TRIES HER LUCK 279
XXII. GOLD 291
XXIII. DEPARTURE 302
XXIV. CONCLUSION 311

COLORADO JIM

CHAPTER I

A SON OF THE WEST

Out of the brooding darkness was born the first timid blush of the morn.
It sprang to life along the serried edge of the Medicine Bow, a broadening
band of blood-red light. For one instant it seemed that some titan breath
had blown at the source, darkening the red to purple; and then, with
startling suddenness, the whole wide range flamed up. The full red rim of
the sun smote aloft, sending the shades scuttling down the valleys, to
van