Peak and Prairie

by Anna Fuller

By Anna Fuller.

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Pratt Portraits.

Sketched in a New England Suburb. Seventh edition, 16mo, paper, 50 cts.; cloth $1.00

"The scant material of which many of them are composed, and the satisfactory manner of their treatment, cause wonder at the same time that they arouse admiration, for it must be admitted that only a thorough artist can accomplish this end with a genre picture."—Cleveland Leader.

"The lines the author cuts in her vignette are sharp and clear, but she has, too, not alone the knack of color, but, what is rarer, the gift of humor."—N. Y. Times.

A Literary Courtship.

Under the Auspices of Pike's Peak. Eighth edition. 12mo, illustrated $1.00

"If you know of any one in the blues, or contemplating a journey, or in any of the nine hundred and ninety-nine conditions when pleasant reading is likely to prove acceptable, advise him to get this little story, or, better still, make him a present of it."—Chicago Interior.

"A delightful little love story. Like her other book it is bright and breezy; its humor is crisp and the general idea is decidedly original. It is just the book to slip into the pocket for a journey, when one does not care for a novel or serious reading."—Boston Times.

Peak and Prairie.

From the Leaves of a Colorado Sketch-Book. 16mo, cloth $1.00

"She sat gazing at the view he loved."

See page 83

Peak and Prairie

 

From a Colorado Sketch-book

 

By
Anna Fuller
Author of "A Literary Courtship," "Pratt Portraits," etc.

 

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G. P. Putnam's Sons

New York⁠London
27 West Twenty-third Street⁠24 Bedford Street, Strand

The Knickerbocker Press
1894

Copyright, 1894
by
Anna Fuller

 

Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
G. P. Putnam's Sons

Preface.

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THE sketches of Colorado life which make up this volume are little more than hints and suggestions caught from time to time by a single observer in a comparatively narrow field of observation. Narrow as the field is, however, it offers a somewhat unusual diversity of scene; for that most charming of health resorts known in these pages as Springtown, is the chance centre of many varying interests. In its immediate vicinity exists the life of the prairie ranch on the one hand and that of the mining-camp on the other; while dominating all as it were—town, prairie, and mountain fastness—rises the great Peak which has now for so many years been the goal of pilgrimage to men and women from the Eastern States in pursuit of health, of fortune, or of the free, open-air life of the prairie. If, from acquaintance with these fictitious characters set in a very real environment, the reader be led to form some slight impression of the stirring little drama which is going forward to-day in that pleasant Land of Promise, he will have incidentally endorsed the claim of these disconnected sketches to be regarded as a single picture.

May, 1894.

CONTENTS.

 

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Chapter		Page
	Preface	vii
I.—	A Pilgrim in the Far West	1
II.—	Brian Boru	36
III.—	Jake Stanwood's Gal	60
IV.—	At the Keith Ranch	101
V.—	The Rumpety Case	123
VI.—	The Lame Gulch Professor	151
VII.—	The Boss of the Wheel	187
VIII.—	Mr. Fetherbee's Adventure	217
IX.—	An Amateur Gamble	240
X.—	A Rocky Mountain Shipwreck	266
XI.—	A Stroke in the Game	301
XII.—	The Blizzard Picnic	335
XIII.—	A Golden Vista	369

 

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Note.—Of the thirteen sketches included in this volume six have previously appeared in periodicals, as follows:

A Pilgrim in the Far West in Harper's Weekly; Brian Boru in Worthington's Magazine; Jake Stanwood's Gal and At the Keith Ranch in The Century Magazine; The Rumpety Case in Lippincott's Magazine; and An Amateur Gamble in Scribner's Magazine. They were, however, all prepared with reference to their final use as a consecutive series. A. F.

To one
to whom I owe
Colorado
and much besides
this book is inscribed