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JACK, THE YOUNG RANCHMAN

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"JACK COULD NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THE CALF HAD NOT BEEN CHOKED TO DEATH."—Page 101.

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OR

A BOY'S ADVENTURES IN THE ROCKIES

BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL
Author of "Pawnee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lodge Tales," Etc.

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright, 1899,
By Frederick A. Stokes Company

Nineteenth Printing

Printed in the United States of America

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Far away in the west, close to the backbone ofthe continent, lies the sage-brush country where thehappenings described in the following pages took place.

The story is about real things and about real people,many of whom are alive to-day. The ranch lies in theRocky Mountains, in a great basin, walled in by mountainson every hand, and 7,500 feet above the level ofthe sea.

The life there was exciting. There was good hunting—antelopeand elk and bears and buffalo; and, faraway—yet near enough to be very real—there werewild Indians.

It is a pleasure to review those days in memory.

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