They of the High Trails

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Garland Hamlin. They of the High Trails

THE AUTHOR'S FOREWORD

THE GRUB-STAKER

THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILS

I. THE GRUB-STAKER

THE COW-BOSS

II. THE COW-BOSS

THE REMITTANCE MAN

III. THE REMITTANCE MAN

THE LONESOME MAN

IV. THE LONESOME MAN

THE TRAIL TRAMP

V. THE TRAIL TRAMP

THE PROSPECTOR

VI. THE PROSPECTOR

THE OUTLAW

VII. THE OUTLAW

THE LEASER

VIII. THE LEASER

THE FOREST RANGER

IX. THE FOREST RANGER

AFTERWORD

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"There's gold in the Sierra Blanca country – everybody admits it," Sherman F. Bidwell was saying as the Widow Delaney, who kept the Palace Home Cooking Restaurant in the town of Delaney (named after her husband, old Dan Delaney), came into the dining-room. Mrs. Delaney paused with a plate of steaming potatoes, and her face was a mask of scorn as she addressed the group, but her words were aimed especially at Bidwell, who had just come in from the lower country to resume his prospecting up the gulch.

"It's aisy sayin' gould is in thim hills, but when ye find it rainbows will be fishin'-rods." As she passed the potatoes over Bidwell's head she went on: "Didn't Dan Delaney break his blessed neck a-climbin' the high places up the creek – to no purpis includin' that same accident? You min may talk and talk, but talk don't pay for petaties and bacon, mind that. For eight years I've been here and I'm worse off to-day than iver before – an' the town, phwat is it? Two saloons and a boardin'-house – and not a ton of ore dug – much less shipped out. Y'r large words dig no dirt, I'm thinkin', Sherm Bidwell."

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"Be off wid ye. Can't ye see the dawn is comin'?" A moment later she ran up to him and gave him a great hug. "There – now haste ye!"

"Be silent!"

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