The Flockmaster of Poison Creek

The Flockmaster of Poison Creek
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The Flockmaster of Poison Creek is a western novel by George W. Ogden. Ogden was a prolific author of western novels. He often used to do original research for his books and settings. Excerpt: "So John Mackenzie had put his foot upon the road. This after he had reasoned it out as a mathematical problem, considering it as a matter of quantities alone. There was nothing in school-teaching at sixty dollars a month when men who had to carry a rubber stamp to sign their names to their checks were making fortunes all around him in sheep. That was the way it looked to John Mackenzie the morning he set out for Poison Creek to hunt up Tim Sullivan and strike him for a job. Against the conventions of the country, he had struck out on foot. That also had been reasoned out in a cool and calculative way. A sheepherder had no use for a horse, in the first place. Secondly and finally, the money a horse would represent would buy at least twelve head of ewes. With questioning eyes upon him when he left Jasper, and contemptuous eyes upon him when he met riders in his dusty journey, John Mackenzie had pushed on, his pack on his back…"

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George W. Ogden. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek

The Flockmaster of Poison Creek

Table of Contents

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

Western Novel

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The woman hesitated, her eyes grown great with fright.

“My man, he is the one who choked two sheepherders with his hands. You must have read in the paper–––”

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