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Title: The Fighting Shepherdess

Author: Caroline Lockhart

Release Date: November 3, 2007 [eBook #23296]

Language: English

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THE FIGHTING SHEPHERDESS

by

CAROLINE LOCKHART

With Frontispiece by M. Leone Bracker

[Illustration: Kate was sitting on a rock--a dark picturesque silhouette
against the sky. See page 235.]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with Small, Maynard & Company

Copyright, 1919,
By Small, Maynard & Company
(Incorporated)

Second Printing, February, 1919
Third Printing, March, 1919
Fourth Printing, March, 1919
Fifth Printing, May, 1919
Sixth Printing, June, 1919

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I The Sand Coulee Roadhouse 1
II An Historic Occasion 13
III Prouty 28
IV Disillusionment 40
V For Always 52
VI The Wolf Scratches 58
VII The Blood of Jezebel 75
VIII The Man of Mystery 85
IX The Summons 98
X The Bank Puts on the Screws 109
XI Kate Keeps Her Promise 120
XII The Dude Wrangler 131
XIII Mrs.