The Sheriff Of Badger

About this eBook

Author

Pattullo, George, 1879-1967

Title

The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland

Credits

Produced by Roberta Staehlin, David Garcia, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Sheriffs -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

34281

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34281

Release Date

November 11, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.The SHERIFF OF BADGER — A TALE OF THE SOUTHWEST BORDERLAND
2. 2.BY GEORGE PATTULLO — ILLUSTRATED — D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK AND LONDON: MCMXII — Copyright, 1912, by D. APPLETON AND COMPANY — Copyright, 1909, 1911, by The Curtis Publishing Company Copyright, 1911, 1912, by Street and Smith Copyright, 1910, by the Pearson Publishing Company > Published June, 1912 Printed in the United States of America — Acknowledgments are due to The Saturday Evening Post , Pearson's Magazine and The Popular Magazine for permission to use some of the material in this book. — TO A. W. BALLANTYNE — The Sheriff of Badger
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.THE SHERIFF OF BADGER
6. 6.CHAPTER I — LAFE JOHNSON ARRIVES AT THE LAZY L RANCH
7. 7.CHAPTER II — CERTAIN COMPLICATIONS RESULT — "She and Johnson rode together every day."
8. 8.CHAPTER III — CONCERNING A BABY'S WAIL
9. 9.CHAPTER IV — OUT OF A JOB
10. 10.CHAPTER V — AN INCIPIENT LOVE AFFAIR
11. 11.CHAPTER VI — DISCOMFITURE OF A GUNFIGHTER
12. 12.CHAPTER VII — JOHNSON IS ELECTED SHERIFF OF BADGER
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII — A FEUD AND WHAT CAME OF IT
14. 14.CHAPTER IX — AN INQUEST AND A SURPRISE
15. 15.CHAPTER X — A JOURNEY TO SATAN'S KINGDOM
16. 16.CHAPTER XI — A WAITRESS TO THE RESCUE
17. 17.CHAPTER XII — THE SHERIFF SETTLES A CONJUGAL DISPUTE
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII — AND HETTY COMES TO BADGER TO LIVE
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV — THE SHERIFF ENSNARED
20. 20.CHAPTER XV — HOW HE WON A WIFE
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE GUNFIGHTER RETURNS AND DELAYS WEDDING
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII — JOHNSON MEETS A FRIEND OF HETTY'S
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII — A SACRIFICE AND ITS PUNISHMENT
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX — BUFFALO JIM GIVES WISE COUNSEL
25. 25.CHAPTER XX — THE SHERIFF PURGES TOWN OF BADGER
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI — A FIGHT IN THE DARK — "As Lafe was coming from dinner ... a Mexican handed him a letter."
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII — CAPTURE OF MOFFATT, THE GUNMAN
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII — THE WEDDING
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV — THE BRIDE IS LOST
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV — JOHNSON BECOMES BOSS OF THE ANVIL
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI — ENTERS TROUBLE
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII — A CLEVER WOMAN AND A MISUNDERSTANDING
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII — RECONCILIATION—MRS. VINING EXPERIENCES A CHANGE OF HEART
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX — LAFE HELPS A DESERTER
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX — AND DISCOVERS HETTY'S BROTHER
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI — GREAT EXPECTATIONS IN JOHNSON FAMILY
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII — BIRTH OF LAFE JOHNSON, JR.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII — JOHNSON ONCE MORE IN ROLE OF SHERIFF
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV — HE ARRESTS A SUSPECT
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV — THE DEATH DICE
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI — RESPONSIBILITY SITS HEAVILY ON LAFE
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII — BUT THE BOSS AGAIN PROVES HIS METTLE
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII — HOW A MOFFATT HENCHMAN WAS OUSTED
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX — NEWS FROM BUFFALO JIM
45. 45.CHAPTER XL — HE ARRIVES TO VISIT THE JOHNSONS
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI — A NIGHT RIDE AND DEATH OF BUFFALO JIM
47. 47.CHAPTER XLII — MIDDLE LIFE
48. 48.CHAPTER XLIII — MOFFATT ONCE MORE
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIV — THE DUEL IN THE MALPAIS — "So now Lafe, Jr., flattened out in his fissure in equal danger with his father."
50. 50.CHAPTER XLV — THE END — THE END

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