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  LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

  A XXX BUNCH _Frontispiece_

  FACING PAGE

  MOUNTING A BUCKING BRONCHO 14

  GLANCING OVER SAW AN INDIAN VILLAGE 32

  CUSTER'S COMMAND 50

  THE TAIL OF THE COOK'S WAGON WAS LET DOWN 62

  THE STOCK OF THE RIFLE RESTED CLOSELY AGAINST HIS CHEEK 86

  BEN WENT OVER TO WHERE THE GAME LAY 86

  ROPING AN UNBROKEN HORSE 98

  "CROW HAT'S FACING THIS WAY" 104

  THE INDIAN CAMP 104

  THE BIGGEST GAME THE COUNTRY AFFORDED 118

  A SQUAW ... JUST SAW SOME BUFFALO 118

  A SHEPHERD ... ALONE WITH HIS FLOCK 136

  A DIFFICULT TASK IF THERE ARE MANY LAMBS IN THE FLOCK 146

  MR. WORTH HAD BUILT FOR HIMSELF A NEW HOUSE 158

  THE SHEEP RANCH HOUSE 158

  HE ... BUCKS, PITCHES, KICKS 170

  CURRAN, BRADY'S NIGHT WRANGLER 190

  THE MEN BROKE UP INTO LITTLE GROUPS 210

  A ROPE CORRAL WAS DRAWN ABOUT THE SADDLE BAND 220

  EACH MAN TOOK HIS ROPE AND FLUNG IT OVER THE HORSE HE WANTED 236

  A LITTLE BOX OF A CABIN IT WAS 248

  THE SNUBBING POST HOLDS HIM FAST 264

  JERRY TAKES IN THE SLACK 264

  JOHN KNOTS THE ROPE LOOSELY ROUND HIS NECK 264

  ROPED 278

  THROWN 278

  WHOSE IS IT? A QUESTION OF OWNERSHIP 278

  DRAGGED IT UP TO THE FIRE 290

  ... WHILE THE IRON WAS APPLIED 290

  HERDS WERE POURING IN FROM EVERY DIRECTION 308

  THE DRIVE ... FORDING A STREAM 320

  THE SUN RIVER RANCH HOUSE 334

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  MARGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY JANET MAC DONALD.

  The drawings of beaver, etc., on pages 75, 84, and 90, by Ernest SetonThompson are reproduced through the courtesy of _Recreation_.

  CATTLE RANCH TO COLLEGE.