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Title: The Plow-Woman

Author: Eleanor Gates

Release Date: January 31, 2010 [EBook #31139]

Language: English

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THE
PLOW-WOMAN

BY
ELEANOR GATES

Author of The Biography of a Prairie Girl

[Illustration]

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMVI

_Copyright, 1906, by_
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, September, 1906

Copyright, 1906, by The Pearson Publishing Company

_To
Robert Underwood Johnson, Esq._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. IN THE FURROW 3

II. A TRIP AND TROUBLE AHEAD 17

III. DALLAS MAKES A FRIEND 30

IV. MISUNDERSTANDINGS 41

V. THE DESPISED 52

VI. FROM DODGE CITY 62

VII. OUT OF THE SKY 76

VIII. BEFORE THE WARPED DOOR 86

IX. A HAND IN THE FUN 96

X. AN APPEAL TO HEADQUARTERS 106

XI. A LITTLE STRATEGY 118

XII. A CONFESSION 129

XIII. A PROPOSAL AND A PROMISE 134

XIV. ANOTHER PROMISE 145

XV. NECESSITY 151

XVI. BACK FROM THE WINTER CAMP 169

XVII. THE AWAKENING 178

XVIII. THE SMOKING MOUNTAIN 191

XIX. AL BRADEN OF SIOUX FALLS 200

XX. A CHARGE 210

XXI. A MEETING BY THE FORD 216

XXII. A FIRST WARNING 223