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Название: On the Cowboy's Trail: Western Boxed-Set

Автор: Coolidge Dane

Издательство: Bookwire

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       Dane Coolidge

      On the Cowboy’s Trail: Western Boxed-Set

      9 Adventure Novels, Gold Rush Tales & Stories of the Wild West

       Illustrator: Maynard Dixon

      e-artnow, 2021

       Contact: [email protected]

      EAN 4064066383084

      Table of Contents

       Hidden Water

       The Texican

       Bat Wing Bowles

       The Desert Trail

       Rimrock Jones

       Shadow Mountain

       Silver and Gold

       Wunpost

       The Man-Killers

      Hidden Water

       Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I THE MOUSE

       CHAPTER II THE MAN FROM CHERRYCOW

       CHAPTER III THE TRAIL OF THE SHEEP

       CHAPTER IV DON PABLO MORENO

       CHAPTER V HIDDEN WATER

       CHAPTER VI THE CROSSING

       CHAPTER VII HELL’S HIP POCKET

       CHAPTER VIII A YEAR’S MAIL

       CHAPTER IX MORONI

       CHAPTER X “FEED MY SHEEP”

       CHAPTER XI JUMPED

       CHAPTER XII THE GARDEN IN THE DESERT

       CHAPTER XIII A SNOW-SCENE

       CHAPTER XIV FOREBODINGS

       CHAPTER XV THE CATASTROPHE

       CHAPTER XVI THE DEPARTURE

       CHAPTER XVII CHICO AND GRANDE

       CHAPTER XVIII BAD BLOOD

       CHAPTER XIX THE BIG DRUNK

       CHAPTER XX THE DROUGHT

       CHAPTER XXI THE FLOOD

       CHAPTER XXII PORTENTS OF WAR

       CHAPTER XXIII THE LAST CROSSING

       CHAPTER XXIV THE END OF IT ALL

      CHAPTER I

       THE MOUSE

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      After many long, brooding days of sunshine, when the clean-cut mountains gleamed brilliantly against the sky and the grama grass curled slowly on its stem, the rain wind rose up suddenly out of Papaguería and swooped down upon the desolate town of Bender, whirling a cloud of dust before it; and the inhabitants, man and horse, took to cover. New-born clouds, rushing out of the ruck of flying dirt, cast a cold, damp shadow upon the earth and hurried past; white-crested thunder-caps, piling-up above the Four Peaks, swept resolutely down to meet them; and the storm wind, laden with the smell of greasewood and wetted alkali, lashed the gaunt desert bushes mercilessly as it howled across the plain. Striking the town it jumped wickedly against the old Hotel Bender, where most of the male population had taken shelter, buffeting its false front until the glasses tinkled and the bar mirrors swayed dizzily from their moorings. Then with a sudden thunder on the tin roof the flood came down, and Black Tex set up the drinks.

      It was a tall cowman just down from the Peaks who ordered the round, and so all-embracing was his good humor that he bid every one in the room drink with him, even a sheepman. Broad-faced and huge, with four months’ growth of hair and a thirst of the same duration, he stood at the end of the bar, smiling radiantly, one sun-blackened hand toying with the empty glass.

      “Come up, fellers,” he said, waving the other in invitation, “and drink СКАЧАТЬ