The Sunset Trail
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—HOW IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT
- CHAPTER II—THAT TRANSACTION IN PONIES
- CHAPTER III—INEZ OF THE ’DOBE WALLS
- CHAPTER IV—THE WILD ROSE OF THE CANADIAN
- CHAPTER V—THE STRATEGY OF MR. MASTERSON
- CHAPTER VI—THE FATAL GRATITUDE OF MR. KELLY
- CHAPTER VII—WHY THE WEEKLY PLANET DIED
- CHAPTER VIII—AN INVASION OF DODGE
- CHAPTER IX—THE MEDICINE OF LONE WOLF
- CHAPTER X—THE INTUITIONS OF MR. ALLISON
- CHAPTER XI—HOW TRUE LOVE RAN IN DODGE
- CHAPTER XII—DIPLOMACY IN DODGE
- CHAPTER XIII—THE RESCUE OF CIMARRON BILL
- CHAPTER XIV—THE WORRIES OF MR. HOLIDAY
- CHAPTER XV—HOW MR. HICKOK WENT INTO CHEYENNE
- CHAPTER XVI—THE LAST VISIT TO DODGE
The Crack of the Winchester.
THE SUNSET TRAIL
By
ALFRED HENRY LEWIS
Author of “The Boss,” “The President,” “Wolfville Days,”
“Black Lion Inn,” “Peggy O’Neal,” etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
A. L. BURT COMPANY, Publishers
New York
Copyright. 1905
BY A. S. BARNES & CO.
Published April, 1905
Second Printing July, 1905
Third Printing January, 1906
Fourth Printing July, 1906
To William Barclay Masterson
This Volume Is Inscribed
By His Friend
The Author
INTRODUCTION.
It was in my thoughts, as I wrote these chapters and arranged their sequence, to fix in types a phase of American existence that, within the touch of present time, has passed away. The West has witnessed more changes than has the East. The common impression, and one to which all Americans are bred, leaves paleface Western occupation to a modern day. Whenever one’s thought wanders to what is old in this country one inevitably sets his face towards the East.
None the less, this feeling of an Eastern as an earlier settlement is error. In New Mexico and Arizona, while exploring an ancient Spanish church or considering some palace of sun-dried mud with a sixteenth-century origin, it will begin to press upon one how the East, after all, is but the younger theatre of European endeavour in this continent. Also, an odd feeling will grow, as o