The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland
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Chapters (102)
- 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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