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The floor manager had just called out that it was "ladies' choice," when the schoolma’am laid proprietary hand upon his cinnamon-brown coat sleeve, and led him into another corner, and announced that she was tired and wanted a nice long talk with him. Happy Jack sighed a bit and sat down...

his Aunt Mary.   Beatrice, scenting trouble, hurried to change the subject. "What's this, Dick—the Missouri River?"   "Hardly. This is the water that didn't fall in the buggy. It isn't deep; it makes bad going worse, that's all."  ...

A story of love and adventure on a ranch in California.

“Rowdy” Vaughan— he had been christened Rowland by his mother, and rechristened Rowdy by his cowboy friends, who are prone to treat with much irreverence the names bestowed by mothers— was not happy. He stood in the stirrups and shook off the thick layer of snow which clung, damp and close-packed,...

“By George, look behind us! I fancy we are going to have a storm. ” Four heads turned as if governed by one brain; four pairs of eyes, of varied color and character, swept the wind-blown wilderness of tender green, and gazed questioningly at the high-piled thunderheads above. A small boy, with an...

The Kid—Chip's son—had the legs and eyes of a roper but the Flying U hands said he didn't have the guts, until... "They think the West has slowed down!", the Kid thought angrily. "They're wrong, dead wrong! It isn't tame yet, by a long shot! They just think it's slowed down...

In a week all Chouteau County knew that Andy Green would ride for the purse, and nearly all Chouteau County backed him with all the money it could command.

All of the boys at the Flying U grumbled -- among themselves -- when they heard that the Old Man's sister was coming to spend the summer. They didn't want a woman at the ranch, and certainly not one who had just received a medical degree! But if they'd had an inkling of what was really going to happen, they would have done more than grumble.

Luck Lindsay tries to persuade the film company for which he is general manager to make a Western showing nineteenth-century life as it really was on the prairie. When his bosses reject the idea, claiming the public wants only stock, melodramatic Westerns, Lindsay produces his own film with the help of the owners of the Flying U Ranch.

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by CLASSIC COLLECTION 600.*** Synopsis: The Lookout Man begins: From the obscurity of vast, unquiet distance the surf came booming in with the heavy impetus of high tide, flinging long streamers of kelp and bits of driftwood over the narrowing...