It was an incident of the Cattle Trail, that most unique and stupendous of all modern migrations, and its founders must have been inspired with a malicious desire to perpetrate a crime against geography, or else they reveled in a perverse cussedness, for within a mile on every side lay broad prairies, and two miles to the east flowed the indolent waters of the Rio Pecos itself. The distance separating the town from the river was excusable, for at certain seasons of the year the placid stream swelled mightily and swept down in a broad expanse of turbulent, yellow flood.
A horseman rode slowly out of a draw and up a steep, lava-covered ridge, singing "The Cowboy's Lament," to the disgust of his horse, which suddenly arched its back and stopped the song in the twenty-ninth verse.
Two tired but happy punchers rode into the coast town and dismounted in front of the best hotel.
Idaho Norton, laughing heartily, backed out of the barroom of Quayle's hotel and trod firmly on the foot of Ward Corwin, sheriff of the county, who was about to pass the door.
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Fourth book in the Hopalong Cassidy western series.
Leaving BAR-20 and joining the CL Ranch in search of greater adventure, Johnny Nelson finds more than he bargained for when he discovers a valley containing more than two hundred CL cattle that have been stolen by rustlers. Reissue.
Fourth book in the Hopalong Cassidy western series.
Novels originally published separately 1921-1922.
Master gunslinger Hopalong Cassidy confronts his ultimate challenge, Slim Travennes, the head of the Sandy Creek Vigilante Committee and a super-fast gunfighter who has never been beaten.
"The Man from Bar-20" (1918) is the seventh of Mulford's novels about Hopalong Cassidy.