The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-17
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER LIN wellston. Texas. II
night or run from Cal BALM. Duane kills
his mar and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER HE meets Luke Stew
ems. an outlaw.
CHAPTER ITT-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
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
ther his plans. Bland returns from q
trip. He asks Duane to Join the band.
He is Jealous of Duane and abuses Kate
and Jennie.
is killed by Alloway. Duane kills Allo-
way and Bland and escapes, wounded,
with Jennie. In a deserted hut in the
mesquite Jennie nurses him.
CHAPTER x-when Duane is strong
nough they trave out OF the Rim Rock
to a rancher's house. where Duane re-
covers. On their way TO Shelbyvflle
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
three years; finally getting a messase
asking him to come to the captains
camp after dark.
CHAPTER xII-The message Is sew
eral times repeated. Duane is chased by
a iynching 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
lynehing. he proves his innocence and Is
allowed to go.
CHAPTER xIv-He goes TO McNelly's
ranger camp. McNelly offers him par
don and social restoration IL he viii
become a niger ana CLEAN OuL tho
Cheseldine gang In the Big Bend coun-
try.
CHAPTER xv-Buck Duane. ranger.
strikes the Big Bend country n be-
gins work. Cheseldine is a mystery, q
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.
CHAPTER xVII-In Fairdale Duane
makes friends with Laramie. and zap
turing a man who has held up Laramie.
Fairdale. who discharges the thief
without a hearing. Duane calls Ion
streth's hand before several honest men.
CHAPTER xvIIT-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
ed practices.
CHAPTER xx-Duane. spying on
Longstreth and Lawson, knows them
for rustlers and bandits. and is nearly
trapped by them.
AAl-ln escaping ne Dlun-
ders into Rays room. They argue about
her fathers crookedness. She hides
a 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 XXITT-Fletcher goes to a
rendezvous at the Cheseldine gangs
secret hiding place on Mount Ord.
Duane follows and. spying. o~verhears a
plot to rob the Val Verde bank.
CHAPTER XXTV-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.