The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland
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The SHERIFF OF BADGER
A TALE OF THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLAND
ILLUSTRATED
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON: MCMXII
Copyright, 1912, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1909, 1911, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Street and Smith Copyright, 1910, by the Pearson Publishing Company >Published June, 1912 Printed in the United States of America
Acknowledgments are due to The Saturday Evening Post, Pearson's Magazine and The Popular Magazine for permission to use some of the material in this book.
TO A. W. BALLANTYNE
The Sheriff of Badger
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
THE SHERIFF OF BADGER
CHAPTER I
LAFE JOHNSON ARRIVES AT THE LAZY L RANCH
CHAPTER II
CERTAIN COMPLICATIONS RESULT
"She and Johnson rode together every day."
CHAPTER III
CONCERNING A BABY'S WAIL
CHAPTER IV
OUT OF A JOB
CHAPTER V
AN INCIPIENT LOVE AFFAIR
CHAPTER VI
DISCOMFITURE OF A GUNFIGHTER
CHAPTER VII
JOHNSON IS ELECTED SHERIFF OF BADGER
CHAPTER VIII
A FEUD AND WHAT CAME OF IT
CHAPTER IX
AN INQUEST AND A SURPRISE
CHAPTER X
A JOURNEY TO SATAN'S KINGDOM
CHAPTER XI
A WAITRESS TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XII
THE SHERIFF SETTLES A CONJUGAL DISPUTE
CHAPTER XIII
AND HETTY COMES TO BADGER TO LIVE
CHAPTER XIV
THE SHERIFF ENSNARED
CHAPTER XV
HOW HE WON A WIFE
CHAPTER XVI
THE GUNFIGHTER RETURNS AND DELAYS WEDDING
CHAPTER XVII
JOHNSON MEETS A FRIEND OF HETTY'S
CHAPTER XVIII
A SACRIFICE AND ITS PUNISHMENT
CHAPTER XIX
BUFFALO JIM GIVES WISE COUNSEL
CHAPTER XX
THE SHERIFF PURGES TOWN OF BADGER
CHAPTER XXI
A FIGHT IN THE DARK
"As Lafe was coming from dinner ... a Mexican handed him a letter."
CHAPTER XXII
CAPTURE OF MOFFATT, THE GUNMAN
CHAPTER XXIII
THE WEDDING
CHAPTER XXIV
THE BRIDE IS LOST
CHAPTER XXV
JOHNSON BECOMES BOSS OF THE ANVIL
CHAPTER XXVI
ENTERS TROUBLE
CHAPTER XXVII
A CLEVER WOMAN AND A MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER XXVIII
RECONCILIATION—MRS. VINING EXPERIENCES A CHANGE OF HEART
CHAPTER XXIX
LAFE HELPS A DESERTER
CHAPTER XXX
AND DISCOVERS HETTY'S BROTHER
CHAPTER XXXI
GREAT EXPECTATIONS IN JOHNSON FAMILY
CHAPTER XXXII
BIRTH OF LAFE JOHNSON, JR.
CHAPTER XXXIII
JOHNSON ONCE MORE IN ROLE OF SHERIFF
CHAPTER XXXIV
HE ARRESTS A SUSPECT
CHAPTER XXXV
THE DEATH DICE
CHAPTER XXXVI
RESPONSIBILITY SITS HEAVILY ON LAFE
CHAPTER XXXVII
BUT THE BOSS AGAIN PROVES HIS METTLE
CHAPTER XXXVIII
HOW A MOFFATT HENCHMAN WAS OUSTED
CHAPTER XXXIX
NEWS FROM BUFFALO JIM
CHAPTER XL
HE ARRIVES TO VISIT THE JOHNSONS
CHAPTER XLI
A NIGHT RIDE AND DEATH OF BUFFALO JIM
CHAPTER XLII
MIDDLE LIFE
CHAPTER XLIII
MOFFATT ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XLIV
THE DUEL IN THE MALPAIS
"So now Lafe, Jr., flattened out in his fissure in equal danger with his father."
CHAPTER XLV
THE END
THE END
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