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The Broncho Rider Boys on the Wyoming Trail; Or, a Mystery of the Prairie Stampede
The Broncho Rider Boys on the Wyoming Trail Or a Mystery of the Prairie Stampede Author:Frank Fowler General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1914 Original Publisher: Burt Subjects: Fiction / Westerns Juvenile Fiction / Lifestyles / Country Life Juvenile Fiction / Westerns Social Science / Sociology / Rural Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER XV. FACE TO FACE AT THE CORRAL. It appeared that that fine lupch had made the lame man feel a thousand per cent better. The coffee had gone to the right spot, and warmed up his heart, so that he really looked like a different man. At the same time it developed that Thomas was something of a master-hand at talking, just as he claimed to be with figures. As he rode there behind Donald he kept up a perpetual flow of chattering, and his own adventures in the past, " further south," as he described it, made up the main theme. It seemed as though he had indeed been through a heap of trouble, and so far as his accounts went, he was never to blame for the distressing things that happened to him. A ruffian had waylaid him, and robbed him of his hard-earned savings, besides badly using him, so that he was still lame. Then back of that he had been set upon by a band of outlaws, who made him a prisoner, gave it out that he was dead, and for a whole year and more he had been forced to wait on them in their mountain cave, a regular slave. He entertained Donald with a glowing account of how he had finally managed to stupefy the whole band with some drug he found among their plunder, and in this fashion made his escape. How much of this was true, and what portion ought to be laid to the fancy of an overwrought brain the boy could 'not tell. He simply put the fellow down as a timid man who liked to boast of things he claimed to have accomplishe...« less