Jack the Young Cowboy: An Eastern Boy's Experiance on a Western Round-up

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by George Bird Grinnell


  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I THE TRAGEDY AT POWELL'S 1

  II A ROBBER TURNED LOOSE 13

  III TO THE ROUND-UP CAMP 24

  IV OLD FRIENDS 34

  V CUTTING AND BRANDING 42

  VI RIDING CIRCLE 55

  VII A BULL FIGHT 66

  VIII A BUFFALO STORY 78

  IX VICENTE, COWHAND 88

  X THE FENCELESS LAND 98

  XI TANNING A BUCKSKIN 110

  XII INDIAN STORIES 120

  XIII BIG WOLVES 133

  XIV A BAD MAN 144

  XV AN ENGLISHMAN IN CAMP 155

  XVI A LESSON IN ROPING 165

  XVII DRIFTING 176

  XVIII A STAMPEDE 187

  XIX COW HORSES AND THEIR WORK 200

  XX ROPING A BEAR 211

  XXI A CALIFORNIA BEAR HUNT 221

  XXII HUNTING WITH A SIX-SHOOTER 230

  XXIII A LOAD OF MEAT 240

  XXIV FLAGGING AN ANTELOPE 252

  XXV THE DANCE AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE 266

  ILLUSTRATIONS

  Cowboy starting for the round-up camp _Frontispiece_

  FACING PAGE

  "The cow started straight off over the prairie" 48

  Branding in the corral 170

  Gentling a wild one 250

  JACK, THE YOUNG COWBOY

 

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