The Night Riders: A Romance of Early Montana
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Cullum Ridgwell. The Night Riders: A Romance of Early Montana
CHAPTER I. IN THE HANDS OF THE PHILISTINES
CHAPTER II. MOSQUITO BEND
CHAPTER III. THE BLIND MAN
CHAPTER IV. THE NIGHT-RIDERS
CHAPTER V. TRESLER BEGINS HIS EDUCATION
CHAPTER VI. THE KILLING OF MANSON ORR
CHAPTER VII. WHICH DEALS WITH THE MATTER OF DRINK
CHAPTER VIII. JOE NELSON INDULGES IN A LITTLE MATCH-MAKING
CHAPTER IX. TRESLER INVOLVES HIMSELF FURTHER; THE LADY JEZEBEL IN A FREAKISH MOOD
CHAPTER X. A WILD RIDE
CHAPTER XI. THE TRAIL OF THE NIGHT-RIDERS
CHAPTER XII. THE RISING OF A SUMMER STORM
CHAPTER XIII. THE BEARDING OF JAKE
CHAPTER XIV. A PORTENTOUS INTERVIEW
CHAPTER XV. AT WILLOW BLUFF
CHAPTER XVI. WHAT LOVE WILL DO
CHAPTER XVII. THE LIGHTED LAMP
CHAPTER XVIII. THE RENUNCIATION
CHAPTER XIX. HOT UPON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XX. BY THE LIGHT OF THE LAMP
CHAPTER XXI. AT WIDOW DANGLEY’S
CHAPTER XXII. THE PURSUIT OF RED MASK
CHAPTER XXIII. A RETURN TO THE LAND OF THE PHILISTINES
CHAPTER XXIV. ARIZONA
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Forks died away in a shimmering haze of heat as Tresler rode out over the hard prairie trail. Ten miles they had told him it was to Mosquito Bend; a ten-mile continuation of the undulating plains he had now grown accustomed to. He allowed his horse to take it leisurely. There was no great hurry for an early arrival.
John Tresler had done what many an enterprising youngster from the New England States has done since. At the age of twenty-five, finding himself, after his university career at Harvard, with an excellent training in all athletics, particularly boxing and wrestling and all those games pertaining to the noble art of self-defense, but with only a limited proficiency in matters relating to the earning of an adequate living, he had decided to break new ground for himself on the prairie-lands of the West. Stock-raising was his object, and, to this end, he had sought out a ranch where he could thoroughly master the craft before embarking on his own enterprise.
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There was no pretense of courtesy between them. Neither offered to shake hands. Jake blurted out his greeting in a vicious tone.
“Say, didn’t you hear me callin’?” he asked sharply.
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