The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-22
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"THE LIGHT OF WESTERN
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I'm Wellston, Texas, II
becomes with Buckley Duane a case OF
fight or run from Cal Balm. Duane kills
his man and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER HE meets Luke Stew
ems an outlaw.
CHAPTER III-Stevens goes into the
town of Mercer to buy supplies and is
shot by a rancher. Duane buries him.
CHAPTER Iv-Duane goes to BANDS
outlaw stronghold in the Rim Rock and
after shooting Bosomer, who quarrels
with him over Stevens death. decides
to stay there. Euchre takes Duane for
a partner and tells him about Bland.
the outlaw chief. and his band
throwing and hears more about Bland
and his gang.
CHAPTER vI-Euchre and Duane
call on Kate, BANDS wife. and Jennie,
a girl whom Benson kidnapped and sold
to Bland
CHAPTER vII-Euchre and Duane
conspire to take Jennie away. Duane
prevents a wanton murder.
CHAPTER .vIII-Mrs. Bland makes
love to Duane and he uses her to fur
Their his plans. Bland returns from q
trip. He asks Duane to join the band.
He is Jealous of Duane and abuses Kate
and Jennie.
CHAPTER IX-Euchre kills Benson.
way and Bland and escapes, wounded,
with Jennie. In a deserted hut in the
mesquite Jennie nurses him.
CHAPTER x-when Duane is strong
enough they travel out of the Rim Rock
to a raneher's house. where Duane re-
Jennie is carried III by outlaws while
Duane is away looking for a strayed
horse.
CHAPTER xI-After vain search for
Jennie. whose abducto he kills. Duane
leads the lone-wolf life for more than
three years; finally getting q message
from Captain McNelly Of the rangers
asking him 10 come to the captains
camp after dark.
CHAPTER vIT-The message is sew
eral times repeated. Duane is chased BY
a lynching party.
CHAPTER xIII-A price on his head
and accused OF numbering a woman.
Duane rides into Shirley to deny the
murder. After a narrow escape from
lynchtng. he proves his innocence ana Is
allowed TO go.
CHAPTER xIV-He goes to McNel1y's
ranger camp. McNetly offers him par
don and social restoration If he win
become n ranger and clean out the
Cheseldine gang in the Big Bend eoun-
try.
CHAPTER xv-Buck Duane. ranger.
strikes the Big Bend country and be-
gins work. Cheseldine IS a mystery. a
power and a horror to the country.
CHAPTER xvI-Colonel Longstreth's
daughter Ray, and her cousin. Ruth
Herbert are held up. Duane shoots
one of the robbers. but is puzzled by
the colonels conduct.
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MATES friends with Laramie. and cap
turing a man who has held up Laramie.
takes him before Longstreth, mayor OF
Fairdale. who discharges the THIEF
without a hearing. Duane oaIls Long
streth's hand before several honest men
CHAPTER xvITI-Duane whips Law
son a nephew of Longstreth. He or
ganizes resistance to Longstreth's
crooked methods.
CHAPTER xIx-Laramie is found
dead. a bullet hole in his breast. Ray
meets Duane and asks for his friend
ship. She suspects her father of crook
ed practices.
CHAPTER XX-Duane. spying on
Longstreth and Lawson, knows them
trapped by them.
CHAPTER KILN escaping he blum
ders into Rays room. They argue about
her father crookedness. She hides
Duane in a closet While the house is
searched. She unwittingly diseloses to
him her fathers identity with Chesel-
dine. He tells Ray he loves her.
CHAPTER XXII-A train is held up
near Bradford. Duane poses as a train
rohber and gaining the confidence of
Fletcher. one of Cheseldine's lieuten-
ants. gets valuable information from
him.
XXIII-FIetcher goes To a
rendezvous at the Cheseldine gangs
secret hiding place on Moun Ord.
Duane follows and, spying. overhears a
plot to rob the Val Verde bank.
CHAPTER XXIV-Duane steals TO the
telegraph office over the mountain and
sends for the rangers. He rides TO Ord
and faces the outlaw gang lone-handed.
He is denounced by Longstreth's lieuten-
ant who draws on him; Duane shoots first.
Fletcher forces him to flee.