Chapter I: Front Matter

_Frontispiece. Page 161._]

RAW GOLD

A NOVEL

BY

BERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

_Illustrations by_
CLARENCE H. ROWE

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1907, by
STREET & SMITH

Copyright, 1908, by
G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

Issued June, 1908

_Raw Gold_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Long Arm of the Law 7

II. A Reminiscent Hour 18

III. Birds of Prey 30

IV. A Tale Half Told 59

V. Mounted Again 50

VI. Stony Crossing 58

VII. Thirty Days in Irons 69

VIII. Lyn 85

IX. An Idle Afternoon 103

X. The Vanishing Act, and the Fruits Thereof 116

XI. The Gentleman Who Rode in the Lead 130

XII. We Lose Again 146

XIII. Outlawed 163

XIV. A Close Call 179

XV. Piegan Takes a Hand 197

XVI. In the Camp of the Enemy 214

XVII. A Master-stroke of Villainy 226

XVIII. Honor Among Thieves 240

XIX. The Bison 251

XX. The Mouth of Sage Creek 258

XXI. An Elemental Ally 271

XXII. Speechless Hicks 283

XXIII. The Spoils of War 294

XXIV. The Pipe of Peace 303

ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE

Hicks drew his and slapped me over the head with it, even as my
finger curled on the trigger Frontispiece 161

Bedded in the soft earth underneath lay the slim buckskin sacks 159

"There's been too much blood shed over that wretched gold already.
Let them have it" 212

A war for the open road against an enemy whose only weapon was
his unswerving bulk 256

RAW GOLD.