The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop
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Excerpt from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop: A Novel Winter in the upper heights of the Bear Tooth Range is a glittering desolation of snow with a flaming blue sky above. Nothing moves, nothing utters a sound, save the cony at the mouth of the spiral shafts which sinks to his deeply buried den in the rocks. The peaks are like marble domes, set high in the pathway of the sun by day and thrust amid the stars by night. The firs seem hopeless under their ever-increasing burdens. The streams are silenced - only the wind is abroad in the waste, the tireless, pitiless wind, fanged like ingratitu...
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- THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP
- SUNSET EDITION HARPER & BROTHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1901. BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY COPYRIGHT 1902. BY HAMLIN GARLAND
- CONTENTS
- THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP
- I
- A CAMP IN THE SNOW
- II
- THE STREETER GUN-RACK
- III
- CURTIS ASSUMES CHARGE OF THE AGENT
- IV
- THE BEAUTIFUL ELSIE BEE BEE
- V
- CAGED EAGLES
- VI
- CURTIS SEEKS A TRUCE
- VII
- ELSIE RELENTS A LITTLE
- VIII
- CURTIS WRITES A LONG LETTER
- IX
- CALLED TO WASHINGTON
- X
- CURTIS AT HEADQUARTERS
- XI
- CURTIS GRAPPLES WITH BRISBANE
- XII
- SPRING ON THE ELK
- XIII
- ELSIE PROMISES TO RETURN
- XIV
- ELSIE REVISITS CURTIS
- XV
- ELSIE ENTERS HER STUDIO
- XVI
- THE CAMP AMONG THE ROSES
- XVII
- A FLUTE, A DRUM, AND A MESSAGE
- XVIII
- ELSIE'S ANCIENT LOVE AFFAIR
- XIX
- THE SHERIFF'S MOB
- XX
- FEMININE STRATEGY
- XXI
- IN STORMY COUNCILS
- XXII
- A COUNCIL AT NIGHT
- XXIII
- THE RETURN OF THE MOB
- XXIV
- THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP
- XXV
- AFTER THE STRUGGLE
- XXVI
- THE WARRIOR PROCLAIMS HIMSELF
- XXVII
- BRISBANE COMES FOR ELSIE
- CURTIS CULPABLE THE AGENT SHIELDS HIS PETS
- XXVIII
- A WALK IN THE STARLIGHT
- XXIX
- ELSIE WARNS CURTIS
- XXX
- THE CAPTURE OF THE MAN
- XXXI
- OUTWITTING THE SHERIFF
- XXXII
- AN EVENTFUL NIGHT
- XXXIII
- ELSIE CONFESSES HER LOVE
- XXXIV
- SEED-TIME
- XXXV
- THE BATTLE WITH THE WEEDS
- XXXVI
- THE HARVEST-HOME
- XXXVII
- THE MINGLING OF THE OLD AND THE NEW
- THE END
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