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Title: Oh, You Tex!

Author: William Macleod Raine

Release Date: August 15, 2007 [EBook #22328]

Language: English

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BOOKS BY WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
Published By
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

THE SHERIFF'S SON. Illustrated.
THE YUKON TRAIL. Illustrated.
STEVE YEAGER. Illustrated.
A MAN FOUR-SQUARE. With colored frontispiece.
OH, YOU TEX!

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OH, YOU TEX!

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[Illustration: TEXAS]

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OH, YOU TEX!

By
WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

Author of "A Man Four-Square," "The Sheriff's Son,"
"The Yukon Trail," Etc.

Boston and New York
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1920

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COPYRIGHT, 1919, by THE STORY-PRESS CORPORATION
COPYRIGHT, 1920, by WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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TO
SAM F. DUNN
OF AMARILLO, TEXAS
INSPECTOR OF CATTLE IN THE DAYS
OF THE LONGHORN DRIVES
TO WHOSE EXPERIENCE AND GENEROUS CRITICISM
I AM INDEBTED FOR AID IN THE
PREPARATION OF THIS BOOK

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CONTENTS

I. THE LINE-RIDER 3
II. "I'LL BE SEVENTEEN, COMING GRASS" 12
III. TEX TAKES AN INTEREST 18
IV. TEX GRANDSTANDS 26
V. CAPTAIN ELLISON HIRES A HAND 38
VI. CLINT WADLEY'S MESSENGER 44
VII. THE DANCE 54
VIII. RUTHERFORD MAKES A MISTAKE 62
IX. MURDER IN THE CHAPARRAL 69
X. "A DAMNED POOR APOLOGY FOR A MAN"