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Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice. Printererrors have been changed, and they are indicated witha mouse-hoverand listed at theend of this book. All otherinconsistencies are as in the original.

A MAN of TWO
COUNTRIES

ALICE HARRIMAN

Author of Songs o' the Sound, Chaperoning Adrienne
through the Yellowstone, Songs o'
the Olympics, etc.

Chapter Headings by

C. M. DOWLING

1910
THE ALICE HARRIMAN COMPANY
NEW YORK & SEATTLE

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TO THE READER

Prior to the days of the cowboy and the range, the settler andirrigation, the State and the Province, an ebb and flow of Indians,traders, trappers, wolfers, buffalo-hunters, whiskey smugglers,missionaries, prospectors, United States soldiery and newly organizedNorth West Mounted Police crossed and recrossed the internationalboundary between the American Northwest and what was then known as the"Whoop Up Country." This heterogeneous flotsam and jetsam held some ofthe material from which Montana evolved its later statehood.

To one who came to know and to love the region after the surging tidehad exterminated the buffalo and worse than exterminated the Indian,—toone who appreciates the limitless possibilities of the splendidCommonwealth of Montana on the one side and the great Province ofAlberta on the other of that invisible line which now draws togetherinstead of separating men of a common tongue, this period seemstremendously interesting. The "local color" has, perhaps, not beensqueezed from too many tubes. Types stand out; never individuals.

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As types, therefore, the characters of this book weave their story asthe shuttle of time, filled with the woof of hidden purpose and opendeed, runs through the warp of their friendships and enmities.

And with the less attractive strands the shifting harness of place andcircumstance enmeshes a thread of Love's gold.

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Book I. The River

Book II. The Prairie

Book III. The State

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BOOK I

Twisting the Lion's Tail

II.

The Girl on the Fontenelle

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