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Title: The Freebooters of the Wilderness

Author: Agnes C. Laut

Release Date: April 4, 2006 [eBook #18116]
Language: English
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THE FREEBOOTERS OF THE WILDERNESS
by
AGNES C. LAUT
Author of
"The Conquest of the Great Northwest," "Lords of the North," etc.



New York
Moffat, Yard and Company
1913
Copyright, 1910, by
Moffat, Yard and Company
New York
Published September, 1910
Second Printing, October, 1910


CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTER
I TO STRADDLE OR FIGHT
II AN INTERLUDE THAT CAME UNANNOUNCED
III THE CHALLENGE TO A LOSING FIGHT
IV STACKING THE CARDS
V THE CHOICE THAT COMES TO ALL MEN
VI WHEREIN ONE PLAYS AN UNCONSCIOUS PART
VII WHILE LAW MARKS TIME, CRIME SCORES
VIII A VICTIM OF LAW'S DELAY
IX EIGHT INTO MIGHT
X THE HANDY MAN GETS BUSY
XI SETTING OUT ON THE LONG TRAIL
XII THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW VEILS ITSELF
XIII THE MAN ON THE JOB
XIV ON THE GAME TRAIL
XV THE DESERT
XVI BITTER WATERS
XVII WHERE THE TRACKS ALL POINT ONE WAY

PART II
XVIII WITHOUT MALICE
XIX BALLOTS TOR BULLETS
XX A FAITH WORKABLE FOR MEN ON THE JOB
XXI THE HAPPY AND TRIUMPHANT HOME-COMING
XXII A DOWNY-LIPPED YOUTH IN GRAY FLANNELS
XXIII IT AIN'T THE TRUTH I'M TELLIN' YOU: IT'S
ONLY WHAT I'VE HEERD
XXIV I AM UNCLE SAM
XXV THE QUESTION IS--WHICH UNCLE SAM?
XXVI THE AWAKENING
XXVII THE AWAKENING CONTINUED
XXVIII THE UNITED STATES OF THE WORLD


FOREWORD
I have been asked how much of this tale of modern freebooters is true?
In exactly which States have such episodes occurred? Have vast herds
of sheep been run over battlements? Have animals been bludgeoned to
death; have men been burned alive; have the criminals not only gone
unpunished but been protected by the law-makers? Have sheriffs "hidden
under the bed" and "handy men" bluffed the press? Have vast domains of
timber lands been stolen in blocks of thousands and hundreds of
thousands of acres through "dummy" entrymen? Have the federal law
officers been shot to death above stolen coal mines? Have Reclamation
Engineers, and Land Office field men, and Forest Rangers undergone such
hardships in Desert and Mountain, as portrayed here? Have they not
only undergone the hardship, but been crucified by the Government which
they served for carrying out the laws of that Government? In a word,
are latter day freebooters of our Western Wilderness playing the same
game in the great transmontane domain as the old-time pirates played on
the high seas? Is this a true story of "the Man on the Job" and "the
Man on the Firing Line" and "the Man Higher Up" and the Looters?
I answer first that I am not writing of twenty years ago, or yesterday,
or the day before yesterday, but _to-day_, the Year of our Lord
1909-1910 in the most highly civilized country the world has ever
known; in a country where self-government has reached a perfection of
prosperity and power not dreamed by poet or prophet.
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