CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. The Dismissal of Silver Phil.
CHAPTER II. Colonel Sterett's Panther Hunt,
CHAPTER III. How Faro Nell Dealt Bank.
CHAPTER IV. How The Raven Died.
CHAPTER V. The Queerness of Dave Tutt.
CHAPTER VI. With the Apache's Compliments.
CHAPTER VII. The Mills of Savage Gods.
CHAPTER VIII. Tom and Jerry; Wheelers.
CHAPTER IX. The Influence of Faro Nell.
CHAPTER X. The Ghost of the Bar-B-8.
CHAPTER XI. Tucson Jennie's Correction.
CHAPTER XII. Bill Connors of the Osages.
CHAPTER XIII. When Tutt first saw Tucson.
CHAPTER XIV. The Troubles of Dan Boggs.
CHAPTER XV. Bowlegs and Major Ben.
CHAPTER XVI. Toad Allen's Elopement.
CHAPTER XVII. The Clients of Aaron Green.
CHAPTER XVII. Colonel Sterett Relates Marvels.
CHAPTER XIX. The Luck of Hardrobe.
CHAPTER XX. Colonel Coyote Clubbs.
CHAPTER XXI. Long Ago on the Rio Grande.
To
William Greene Sterett
this volume is
inscribed.
August 1, 1902
In offering this book to you I might have advantage of the occasion to express my friendship and declare how high I hold you as a journalist and a man. Or I might speak of those years at Washington when in the gallery we worked shoulder to shoulder; I might recall to you the wit of Hannum, or remind you of the darkling Barrett, the mighty Decker, the excellent Cohen, the vivid Brown, the imaginative Miller, the volatile Angus, the epigrammatic Merrick, the quietly satirical Splain, Rouzer the earnest, Boynton the energetic, Carson the eminent, and Dunnell, famous for a bitter, frank integrity. I might remember that day when the gifted Fanciulli, with no more delicate inspiration than crackers, onions, and c