The Flockmaster of Poison Creek
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George W. Ogden. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek
Table of Contents
The Flockmaster of Poison Creek
CHAPTER I
THE SHEEP COUNTRY
CHAPTER II
SWAN CARLSON
CHAPTER III
THE FIGHT
CHAPTER IV
KEEPER OF THE FLOCK
CHAPTER V
TIM SULLIVAN
CHAPTER VI
EYES IN THE FIRELIGHT
CHAPTER VII
THE EASIEST LESSON
CHAPTER VIII
THE SHEEP-KILLER
CHAPTER IX
A TWO-GUN MAN
CHAPTER X
WILD RIDERS OF THE RANGE
CHAPTER XI
HECTOR HALL SETS A BEACON
CHAPTER XII
ONE COMES TO SERVE
CHAPTER XIII
A FIGHT ALMOST LOST
CHAPTER XIV
THE LONESOMENESS
CHAPTER XV
ONLY ONE JACOB
CHAPTER XVI
REID BEGINS HIS PLAY
CHAPTER XVII
HERTHA CARLSON
CHAPTER XVIII
SWAN CARLSON’S DAY
CHAPTER XIX
NOT CUT OUT FOR A SHEEPMAN
CHAPTER XX
A MILLION GALLOPS OFF
CHAPTER XXI
TIM SULLIVAN BREAKS A CONTRACT
CHAPTER XXII
PHANTOMS OF FEVER
CHAPTER XXIII
CONCERNING MARY
CHAPTER XXIV
MORE ABOUT MARY
CHAPTER XXV
ONE MAN’S JOKE
CHAPTER XXVI
PAYMENT ON ACCOUNT
CHAPTER XXVII
A SUMMONS IN THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXVIII
SWAN CARLSON LAUGHS
CHAPTER XXIX
SHEEPMAN––AND MORE
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George W. Ogden
Published by Good Press, 2019
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His great laugh woke her, and she was home in this house, the light of day in her eyes. Swan was sitting beside her, merry in the thought of how he had cheated her out of her intention to die like an old ewe among the mountain drifts.
She was good for nothing, he said, but to sit at home like a cat. But he would make sure that she sat at home, to be there at his coming, and not running away from the bounty of a man who had taken a beggar to his bosom. Then he brought the chain and the anvil, and welded the red-hot iron upon her limb. He laughed when the smoke of her burning flesh rose hissing; laughed when he mounted his horse and rode away, leaving her in agony too great to let her die.
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