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Title: Crooked Trails and Straight

Author: William MacLeod Raine
D. C. Hutchison

Release Date: October 13, 2008 [EBook #26911]

Language: English

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CROOKED TRAILS AND STRAIGHT

BY
WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE

AUTHOR OF
BRAND BLOTTERS, BUCKY O'CONNOR, MAVERICKS,
WYOMING, RIDGWAY OF MONTANA, A TEXAS RANGER, etc.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
D. C. HUTCHISON

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1913, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

Crooked Trails and Straight

CONTENTS

PART I

CURLY

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Following a Crooked Trail 9
II. Camping with Old Man Trouble 23
III. At the End of the Road 33
IV. The Cullisons 49
V. Laura London 60
VI. A Bear Trap 74
VII. Bad Medicine 84
VIII. A Rehearsed Quarrel 94
IX. Eavesdropping 110
X. "Stick to Your Saddle" 131

PART II

LUCK

I. At the Round Up Club 143
II. Luck Meets an Old Acquaintance 151
III. An Initialed Hat 157
IV. Kate Uses Her Quirt 169
V. "Ain't She the Gamest Little Thoroughbred?" 178
VI. Two Hats On A Rack 194
VII. Anonymous Letters 200
VIII. A Message in Cipher 213
IX. "The Friends of L. C. Serve Notice" 220
X. Cass Fendrick Makes a Call