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Title: The Moccasin Ranch
A Story of Dakota
Author: Hamlin Garland
Release Date: November 11, 2006 [EBook #19764]
Language: English
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"STAND OUT O' MY WAY, OR I'LL KILL YOU!" [See page 104]
THE
MOCCASIN RANCH
A STORY OF DAKOTA
BY
HAMLIN GARLAND
AUTHOR OF
"THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP"
"MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS" etc.
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NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
MCMIX
Copyright, 1909, by Hamlin Garland.
All rights reserved.
Published September, 1909.
Contents
I MARCH
1
II MAY
24
III JUNE
33
IV AUGUST
49
V NOVEMBER
67
VI DECEMBER
86
VII CONCLUSION
128
THE MOCCASIN RANCH
1I
MARCH
Early in the gray and red dawn of a March morning in 1883, two wagons moved slowly out of Boomtown, the
two-year-old "giant of the plains." As the teams drew past the last house, the strangeness of the scene
appealed irresistibly to the newly arrived immigrants. The town lay behind them on the level, treeless plain
like a handful of blocks pitched upon a russet robe. Its houses were mainly shanties of pine, one-story2 in
height, while here and there actual tents gleamed in the half-light with infinite suggestion of America's restless
pioneers.
The wind blew fresh and chill from the west. The sun rose swiftly, and the thin scarf of morning cloud melted
away, leaving an illimitable sweep of sky arching an almost equally majestic plain. There was a poignant
charm in the air\u2014a smell of freshly uncovered sod, a width and splendor in the view which exalted the
movers beyond words.
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