Frewen's Ranch Experience -- Hanging of Billy Nurse by Vigilantes -- Holding up Doc. Middleton -- Death of the Famous Character

CHAPTER XVI 121

Perry Yeast's Success -- Judge Gaslin, Who Wrote "The Law of the West" -- Tom Ryan's Defiance

CHAPTER XVII 123

Newman's Ranch on the Running Water -- Bartlett Richards & Company -- The Scourge of the Land Inquisition -- Cattle Rustlers -- Hall & Evans -- Evan's Battle For Right -- First Dairy Herd

CHAPTER XVIII 125

Big Ranches Round About -- First Dry Farming at Big Springs -- Other Ranches on Lodgepole -- Newman Leads the Turks Through "Jerusalem" -- Walrath. from Ox Team to Aeroplane

CHAPTER XIX .127

Creighton Expands -- Snodgrass and McShane -- Mcintosh Founds "The Circle Arrow" -- Simpson Organizes the Bay State Companj

CHAPTER XX 129

Earlv Sub-Irrigation -- Bav State Buvs Coad's North River Ranch -- J. S. Robb, Foreman

-- Mary Rose's Grave -- The Grout House -- J. 11. D. Ranch -- Round-up at Circle Arrow

-- Death of "Skv Pilot" at Pine Bluffs

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Paxton's Ogallala Company-- Hall'? Famous Drive to Pine Ridge-- Dick Bean's Death

-- Gun .Men and Frantz's Comical Episode

I \. Hall and Robert Graham's Old Time Ranch -- Ogallala Men and Events-- Indians Get Southers -- Bargain Sales of Ranch Locations -- Harper's Deal

An Indian Wagon Race -- Building Camp Clarke Bridge -- Round-up -- Wild West Shows

-- Tom Horn's Outlaw Horse -- Six Thousand Cattle Milling in the River