The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1918-01-24
6YZANE GREY
AUTHOR or
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SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I'm wellston, Texas. II
becomes with Buckley Duane a case OF
Tight or run from Cal Balm. Duane kills
his man and becomes an outlaw.
CHAPTER u-He meets Luke Stew
ems. an outlaw.
CHAPTER ITI-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 rum
throwing and hears more about Bland
and his gang.
call on Kate. BANDS wife. and Jennie,
a girl whom Benson kidnapped and sold
TO Bland.
CHAPTER vII-Euchre and Duane
conspire to TAX Jennie away. Duane
prevents a wanton murder.
CHAPTER vIII-Mrs. Bland makes
love TO Duane and he uses her 10 fur
Their his plans. Bland returns from .
trip; He asks Duane to Join the 9ana
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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 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
f three years finally Mnye EEett N the : m ranesrs
asking him TO come to the captains
camp after dark.
CHAPTER xII-The message is sew
eral times repeated. Duan 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
allowed to go.
CHAPTER xTv-He goes TO McNelly's
ranger camp, McNelly offers him par
don and social restoration IL he VIII
become a ranger anu Ettah oaN INV
Cheseldine gang in the Big Bend coun-
try.
CHAPTER xv-Buck Duane. ranger.
strikes the Big Bend country and be-
gin 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 c%olonel's conduct.
CHAPTER XvII-In Fairdale a
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
without a hearing. Duane calls Long
streth's hand before several honest men.
CHAPTER XVIII-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
for rustlers and bandits, and is nearly
trapped by them.
CHAPTER KILN escaping he blum
ders into Rays room. They argue about
her father's crookedness. She hides
Duane in a closet while the house Is
searched. She unwittingly diseloses TO
him her father's identity with Chesel-
dine. He tells Ray he loves her.
CHAPTER xxII-A train Is held up
near Bradford. Ia 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
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.