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Title: The Boy Land Boomer
Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma

Author: Ralph Bonehill

Illustrator: W. H. Fry

Release Date: February 18, 2007 [EBook #20618]

Language: English

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THE BOY
LAND BOOMER

OR

DICK ARBUCKLE'S
ADVENTURES IN OKLAHOMA

BY

CAPTAIN RALPH BONEHILL

AUTHOR OF

"THREE YOUNG RANCHMEN,"
"A SAILOR BOY WITH DEWEY," ETC.

[Illustration: "The youth had to cling fast around his neck to save
himself a lot of broken bones"]

ILLUSTRATED BY W. H. FRY

H. M. CALDWELL COMPANY
NEW YORK Publishers BOSTON

COPYRIGHT, 1902,
BY
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

Made by
Robert Smith Printing Co.,
Lansing, Mich.

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Transcriber's Note: Obvious printer errors have been corrected. All
other inconsistencies have been left as they were in the original.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

"The youth had to cling fast around his neck to save
himself a lot of broken bones" _Frontispiece_

"The next instant the boy was hurled headlong into
the boiling and foaming current" 62

"Dick had let fly the jagged stone, taking him directly
in the forehead and keeling him over like a tenpin" 179

"In a second more the two men were in a hand-to-hand
encounter" 220

PREFACE.

"The Boy Land Boomer" relates the adventures of a lad who, with his
father, joins a number of daring men in an attempt to occupy the rich
farming lands of Oklahoma before the time when that section of our
country was thrown open to settlement under the homestead act.

Oklahoma consists of a tract of land which formerly formed a portion of
the Indian Territory. This regio