Short Grass

by George Washington Ogden

PAWNEE BEND, in the days when Texas trail herds still came up to Kansas loading pens, was a community of unpainted board shacks, saloons, and lawlessness. To this town came Bill Dunham, age twenty-four, late of a peaceful farming section of Kansas, seeking his fortune. His quiet demeanor deceives a cowboy in a saloon and when the latter essays to make the granger dance, Bill takes the cowboy's gun and neatly shoots off both his boot heels.

So begins this story of the western ranges where a killer Marshal ruled as law, judge, and hangman; a story of great trail herds and fighting men; and above all a story of Bill Dunham who in spite of his quiet manners and lawful ways became the most dreaded man of the region.

Here is a tale in which suspense and racing thrill keep pace with a genuine poignance of human drama staged against a real background of the West.

Short Grass

Short Grass

 

By
George W. Ogden
Author of "The Cow Jerry," "West of Dodge," etc.

 

 

Dodd, Mead and Company
New York : : : 1927

Copyright, 1926
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

 

Printed in the U. S. A. by
Quinn & Boden Company, Inc.
Book Manufacturers
RahwayNew Jersey

Contents

Chapter		Page
I	Romance Calls	1
II	What a Man Drinks	14
III	Burnt Leather	26
IV	Innercent and Cute	39
V	Marching Orders	50
VI	The Girl Named Zora	59
VII	A Man Without a Gun	68
VIII	People of Consequence	84
IX	Hard to Break Into	95
X	Within the Law	104
XI	Honors Are Declined	117
XII	A Domestic Interlude	130
XIII	If He Ever Gets Mean	145
XIV	To the Enemy's Camp	157
XV	A Crook or a Fool	170
XVI	Bill Picks a Shining Mark	180
XVII	Texas Cattle	189
XVIII	Outlawed on the Range	199
XIX	Mallon Shakes a Lemonade	213
XX	A New Gun Is Tested	225
XXI	Pawnee Bend Snarls	236
XXII	Good-by to Daylight	249
XXIII	A Mistake in the Date	262
XXIV	The Brooding of Vengeance	271
XXV	Tin Can Land	282
XXVI	Cattlemen's Choice	291