Chapter I: Front Matter

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CAVANAGH FOREST RANGER

A Romance Of The Mountain West

By HAMLIN GARLAND

Author Of "The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop" "Main-Travelled Roads" Etc.

HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS New York and London MCMX

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Books by HAMLIN GARLAND

Cavanagh--Forest Ranger Post 8vo $1.50 The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop. Post 8vo 1.50 Hesper Post 8vo 1.50 Money Magic. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.50 The Light of the Star. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.50 The Tyranny of the Dark. Ill'd. Post 8vo 1.50 The Shadow World Post 8vo 1.35 Main-Travelled Roads Post 8vo 1.50 Prairie Folks Post 8vo 1.50 Rose of Dutcher's Coolly Post 8vo 1.50 The Moccasin Ranch. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.00 Trail of the Gold-Seekers Post 8vo 1.50 The Long Trail. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.25 Boy Life on the Prairie. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.50 (In Boys' and Girls' Library) .75

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, N. Y.

Copyright, 1910, by Hamlin Garland

All rights reserved

Published March, 1910

Printed in the United States of America

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TO THE FOREST RANGER

WHOSE LONELY VIGIL ON THE HEIGHTS SAFEGUARDS THE PUBLIC HERITAGE

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Desert Chariot 1
II. The Forest Ranger 20
III. Lee Virginia Wages War 35
IV. Virginia Takes Another Motor Ride 57
V. Two On the Veranda 80
VI. The Voice from the Heights 97
VII. The Poachers 115
VIII. The Second Attack 132
IX. The Old Sheep-Herder 149
X. The Smoke of the Burning 173
XI. Shadows on the Mist 187
XII. Cavanagh's Last Vigil Begins 217
XIII. Cavanagh Asks for Help 230
XIV. The Pest-House 247
XV. Wetherford Passes On 265
Conclusion 295

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