The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-19
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I'm wellston, Texas, IL
becomes with Buckley Duane a case OF
tight or run from Cal Balm. Duane Kills
his man and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER n-He meets Luke Stew
ems. an outlaw.
town of Mercer to buy supplies and is
shot by a rancher. D~uaneSburies 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 a for
a partner and tells him about Bland,
the outlaw chief. and his bar
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 AXE Jennie away. Duane
prevents a wanton murder.
CHAPTER vIrI-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.
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
enough they travel out OF the Rim Rock
to a rancher's house. where Duane re-
covers. On their way TO ~Shelbyvilie
Jennie Is carried on by outlaws while
Duane is away looking for a strsysd
horse.
CHAPTER xI-After vain search for
leads the lone-wo1f life for more than
three years, finally getting a message
from Captain McNelly 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 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
l%ynching, he proves his innocence and Is
allowed TO go.
CHAPTER xIv-He goes to McNelly's
range camp, MGNEllV OHtTS MIN PAL
don and social restoration IL he will
become a ranger and clean out the
Cheseldine gang in the Big Bend
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
I'D TANRn n a
one OF the robbers. but is puzzled by
the colonel's onduct
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-Duane whips Law
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
for rustlers and bandits, and is nearly
AaRRGo ~ -
CHAPTER KILN 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-F1etcher goes to a
rendezvous at the Cheseldine gangs
secret hiding place on Mount 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.