Peak and Prairie

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Fuller Anna. Peak and Prairie

Peak and Prairie

Table of Contents

PREFACE

Illustrations

PEAK AND PRAIRIE

I

A PILGRIM IN THE FAR WEST

II

BRIAN BORU

III

JAKE STANWOOD'S GAL

IV

AT THE KEITH RANCH

V

THE RUMPETY CASE

VI

THE LAME GULCH PROFESSOR

VII

THE BOSS OF THE WHEEL

VIII

MR. FETHERBEE'S ADVENTURE

IX

AN AMATEUR GAMBLE

X

A ROCKY MOUNTAIN SHIPWRECK

XI

A STROKE IN THE GAME

XII

THE BLIZZARD PICNIC

XIII

A GOLDEN VISTA

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Anna Fuller

From a Colorado Sketch-book

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Jacob Stanwood was not the only college-bred man, stranded more or less like a disabled hull, upon the prairie sea of Colorado. Within the radius of a hundred miles—no great distance as prairie miles are reckoned—there were known to be some half dozen of the fraternity, putting their superior equipment to the test, opposing trained minds and muscles to the stubborn resistance of an ungenial nature. The varying result of the struggle in different cases would seem to indicate that it is moral fibre which nature respects and submits to, rather than any acquired advantages.

"BETWEEN HIS CABIN DOOR AND 'THE RANGE' STRETCHED TWENTY MILES OF ARID PRAIRIE."

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