Baker Willard F.. The Boy Ranchers: or, Solving the Mystery at Diamond X
THE BOY RANCHERS
CHAPTER I "SOME RIDIN'!"
CHAPTER II. A CALL FOR HELP
CHAPTER III. A MYSTERIOUS SEARCH
CHAPTER IV. SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER V. HITTING THE TRAIL
CHAPTER VI. THE RUSTLERS
CHAPTER VII. A CRY IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER VIII "THE PROFESSOR!"
CHAPTER IX "WHAT DOES IT MEAN?"
CHAPTER X. DEL PINZO
CHAPTER XI. BAD BUSINESS
CHAPTER XII. RIDING HERD
CHAPTER XIII. THE ATTEMPT FOILED
CHAPTER XIV. THE STAMPEDE
CHAPTER XV. LOST
CHAPTER XVI. THE VISION
CHAPTER XVII. THE NIGHT CAMP
CHAPTER XVIII. QUEER OPERATIONS
CHAPTER XIX. PRISONERS
CHAPTER XX. THE DIAMOND X BRAND
CHAPTER XXI. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXII. BACK TO THE RANCH
CHAPTER XXIII. CLOSING IN
CHAPTER XXIV. THE FIGHT
CHAPTER XXV. THE TRICERATOPS
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Two riders slumped comfortably in their saddles as the ponies slowly ambled along. The sun was hot, and the dust stifling, a cloud of it forming a floating screen about the horsemen and progressing with them down the trail.
One of the riders, a tall, lanky and weather-beaten cowboy, taking a long breath, raised his voice in what he doubtless intended to be a song.
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"Maybe I'll go," offered Bud. "If it should happen to be sheepers, dad'll want to know it."
"He shore will, son. But – Zow hippy! What's going on here?" cried Slim. He pointed toward the corral of the ranch – a fenced-off field where the cowboys kept their string of ponies when the animals were not in use. Here, too, spare animals were held against the time of need.
