The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-26
SYNOPSIS.

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CHAPTER I'm wellston, Texas. II
becomes with Buckley Duane a case OF
night or run from Cal Balm. Duane kills
his man and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER HE meets Luke Stew
ems. an outlaw.
CHAPTER uI-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.
CHAPTER v-Duane practices gun
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 =
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He is Jealous of Duan and abuses Kats
and Jennie.
CHAPTER Ix-Euchre kills Benson.
Is killed by A1loway, Duane kills Allo-
way and Bland and escapes. wounded.
with Jennie. In a deserted hut in the
mesquite Jenni nurses him.
CHAPTER x-when Duane is strong
enough they travel out OF the Rim Rock
20 a rancher's house. where Duane re-
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Jennie is carried of by outlaws while
Duane is away looking for a straysd
horse.
CHAPTER xI-After vain search for
Jennie. whose abductor he Kills. Duane
leads the lone-wolf life for more than
from Captain McNeiiy of the rangers
asking him to come to the captains
camp after dark.
CHAPTER xII-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
lynching, he proves his innocence and Is
Above to go.
CHAPTER xIv-He goes to McNelly's
ranger camp. McNelly offers him par.
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become a ranger and clean out the
Cheseldine gang in the Big Bend coun-
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
0na nf the TnhhRrG hnf ia nlZZled by
the colonel's conduct.
CHAPTER xvII-In Fairdale Duane
makes friends with Laramie, and cap
turing a man who has held up Laramie.
takes him before Longstreth, mayor OF
Fairdale. who discharges the thief
streth's hand before several honest men.
CHAPTER XvIII-Dusne whips Law
son a nephew OF Longstreth. He or
ganizes resistance to Longstreth's
crooked methods.
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
for rustlers and bandits, and Is nearly
trapped by them.
CHAPTER xXI-In escaping he blum
ders into Rays room. They argue about
her fathers .crookedness. She hides
Duane in a closet while the house is
searched. She unwittingly discloses 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
robber and. gaining the confidence of
Fletcher. one of Cheseldine's lieuten-
ants. gets valuable information from
him.
CHAPTER xXIII-Fletcher goes to a
rendezvous at the Cheseldine gangs
secret hiding place on Mount Ord.
Duane follows and. spying. overhears a
CHAPTER xXIv-Duane steals to the
telegraph office over the mountain and
sends for the rangers. He rides to Ord
He is denounced by Longstreth's lieuten-
ant who draws on him: Duane shoots first,
Fletcher forces him to flee.
CHAPTER XIV Duane surprises
Longstreth and Lawson. Kills Lawson
and Longstreth -surrenders on Duane's
promise TO let him go away to his form
err home in Louisiana.
CHAPTER XXVI-Duane takes Long.
streth and the girls to McNelly and his
rangers at Val Verde. The rangers plan
to stop the bank robbery. Ray tries
pleading her love for him to stop Duane
from openly facing Poggin. king gun
man. The outlaw gang attempt the
bank robbery and Duane falls before
Poggints gun.
CHAPTER XVII.