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Eli Colter. Blood on the Range
BLOOD. ON THE. RANGE
CHAPTER I. BEHIND THE HILL
CHAPTER II. A DESERT-BRED HORSE
CHAPTER III. ON THE DEVIL’S DANCE FLOOR
CHAPTER IV. VANDOVER’S DEFIANCE
CHAPTER V. HARDIN’S RETURN
CHAPTER VI. THE SHERIFF’S STORY
CHAPTER VII. MORNING
CHAPTER VIII. LEAVE-TAKING
CHAPTER IX. ELK CROSSING
CHAPTER X. THE PUZZLE
CHAPTER XI. IN PEELE’S CAMP
CHAPTER XII. LOBO SWAMP
CHAPTER XIII. DRIFTING COWBOY
CHAPTER XIV. ON THE TRAIL
CHAPTER XV. A BIT OF NEWS
CHAPTER XVI. THREE FROM TEN
CHAPTER XVII. SWEDE ARRIVES
CHAPTER XVIII. ANOTHER MURDER
CHAPTER XIX. RIDERS IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XX. A PECULIAR COMMUNICATION
CHAPTER XXI. SMOKING TRAIL
CHAPTER XXII. SALT RIVER’S REVOLT
CHAPTER XXIII. A MESSAGE FOR PEELE
CHAPTER XXIV. GASTON TALKS
CHAPTER XXV. PEELE COMES CLEAN
CHAPTER XXVI. PAYING A DEBT
CHAPTER XXVII. THE POSSE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE LAST CHIP
CHAPTER XXIX. AT DEVIL’S FLAT
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Eli Colter
DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC.
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Before long, however, he dropped down over a rim and once more emerged on rangeland that was scrubby and sage-grown, far different from the rolling green acres on which his own cows fattened at the Circle Crossbar—when they were not brutally slaughtered or rustled.
It was the slaughtering that Gage Hardin could not understand. Rustling was all in a day’s work. But too often of late he had found fine cattle killed, or wounded and left to die in agony. “Why?” had been the great, insistent question in his mind, but he was not even thinking of that now. More important questions had to be answered, and the pain in his heart left no room for material matters of business.
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