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Title: Dave Porter at Star Ranch
Or, The Cowboy's Secret

Author: Edward Stratemeyer

Illustrator: Lyle T. Hammond

Release Date: August 9, 2006 [EBook #19016]

Language: English

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[Illustration: As Dave clucked again, Hero shot ahead.--Page 121.]

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Dave Porter Series

DAVE PORTER AT STAR RANCH
OR
THE COWBOY'S SECRET

BY
EDWARD STRATEMEYER

Author of "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," "The Gun Club Boys of Lakeport,"
"Old Glory Series," "Colonial Series," "Pan-American Series," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED BY LYLE T. HAMMOND_

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

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Published, August, 1910

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

_All rights reserved_

DAVE PORTER AT STAR RANCH

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Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
Norwood, Mass.
U. S. A.

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PREFACE

"Dave Porter at Star Ranch" is a complete tale in itself, but forms the
sixth volume in a line issued under the general title of "Dave Porter
Series."

In the first book of the series, called "Dave Porter at Oak Hall," the
reader was introduced to a typical American lad of to-day, and was
likewise shown the workings of a modern boarding school--a little world
in itself.

There was a cloud over Dave's parentage, and to solve the mystery he
took a long sea voyage, as related in the second volume, called "Dave
Porter in the South Seas." Then he came back to Oak Hall, to help win
several important games, as the readers of "Dave Porter's Return to
School" already know.

So far, although Dave had heard of his father, he had not met his
parent. He resolved to go on a hunt for the one who was so dear to him,
and what that led to was