THE PREACHER OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN
A TALE OF THE OPEN COUNTRY
BY ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
FRONTISPIECE BY CLARENCE ROWE
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1917
Copyright, 1917, by
Ernest Thompson Seton
All rights reserved, including that oftranslation into foreign languages,including the Scandinavian
"'You must choose between us. Is it Belle or Blazing Star?'"
PREFACE
Most of the characters in this tale are from life, and some of the mainevents are historical, although the actual scenes and names are notgiven. Many men now living will remember Fighting Bill Kenna and theHorse Preacher, as well as the Fort Ryan races. These horse races areespecially well known and have been described in print many times. I didnot witness any of them myself, but listened on numerous occasions whenthey were described to me by eye-witnesses. My first knowledge of thesecret try-out in Yellowbank Canyon was given to me years ago by HomerDavenport, the cartoonist, with permission to use the same.
But all of these more or less historic events are secondary to theintent of illustrating the growth of a character, whose many rare giftswere mere destructive force until curbed and harmonized into the big,strong machine that did such noble work in the West during my early dayson the Plains.
Ernest Thompson Seton.
CONTENTS
BOOK ONE The Child of the Stable Yard
CHAPTER I. The Home Land of Little Jim Hartigan
CHAPTER II. The Strains That Were Mingled in Jim
CHAPTER III. How He Lost His Father
CHAPTER IV. The Atmosphere of His Early Days
CHAPTER V. Little Jim's Tutors
CHAPTER VI. Jim Loses Everythin
CHAPTER VII. He Gets a Much-needed Lesson
BOOK II The Conversion
CHAPTER VIII. The Conversion of Jim
CHAPTER IX. Jim Hartigan Goes to College
CHAPTER X. Escape to Cedar Mountain
CHAPTER XI. A New Force Enters His Life
CHAPTER XII. Belle Boyd
CHAPTER XIII. Preacher Jim's First Sermon
CHAPTER XIV. The Lure of the Saddle
CHAPTER XV. Pat Bylow's Spree
CHAPTER XVI. The New Insurance Agents
CHAPTER XVII. Belle Makes a Decision and Jim Evades On BU KİTABI OKUMAK İÇİN ÜYE OLUN VEYA GİRİŞ YAPIN!
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