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The Coming of CassidyBuck Peters put everything he owned into the Bar-20 and thought he could make a go of it. He did well enough, until a gang of renegade buffalo hunters went after his spread, his cattle, his life. They swore to let nothing stand in their way. Then they met a cowhand named Cassidy...Hopalong Cassidy.Bar-20Cassidy could fan a gun like a Billy the Kid. Six rounds in three seconds was his slowest time. No one in Texas could bea...

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Excerpt from The Coming of Cassidy, and the OthersThat Red, whose welcome always seemed a little warmer than that of the others, finally took me back to the beginning. My friendship with the outfit did not begin until some years after the fight at Buckskin, and, while I was familiar with that affair and with the history of the outfit from that time on, I had never seemed to make much headway back of that encounter. And I must confess that if I...

Excerpt from Buck Peters, Ranchman: Being the Story of What Happened When Buck Peters, Hopalong Cassidy, and Their Bar-20 Associates Went to MontanaThe shirtless puncher looked around helplessly, and then a grin slipped over his face. Glancing at the boot he dropped it back into the dish water, moved swiftly to Red's bunk, and in a moment a twin to his own shirt adorned his back. To make matters more certain he deposited on Red's blankets an o...

Excerpt from Hopalong CassidyHE raw and mighty West, the greatest stage in I all the history of the world for so many deeds of daring which verged on the insane, was scared and cross-barred with grave-lined trails and dotted with presumptuous, mushroom towns of brief stay, whose in habitants ¿ung their primnl passions in the face of hu manity and laughed in condescending contempt at what humanity had to say about it. In many localities the rea...

Excerpt from The OrphanBut tradition was strongly questioned as to his mother, for how could the son of such a mother be possessed of the dare-devil courage and grit which had made his name a synonym of terror? This contention was well stated and is borne out, for it can be authoritatively said that the mother of The Orphan was white, and had neither Indian nor negro blood in her veins, but on the contrary came from a family of gentlefolk. Thu...

Excerpt from The Bar-20 ThreeIdaho Norton, laughing heartily, backed out of the barroom of Quayle's hotel and trod firmly on the foot of Ward Corwin, sheriff of the county, who was about to pass the door. Idaho wheeled, a casual apology trembling on his lips, to hear a biting, sarcastic flow of words, full of profanity, and out of all proportion to the careless injury. The sheriff's coppery face was a deeper color than usual and bore an expres...

Excerpt from Bring Me His EarsYer wuss nor a weasel, grunted the Missourian, slight prickles playing up and down his spine. Better git down to them freight piles!About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving ...

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Jim Meeker came down from Montana to run Texas cattle--only to find that Hopalong Cassidy's Bar-20 ran the water. So when a trio of snake-mean rustlers started themselves a cattle war, the powder was primed, the guns cocked, and Hopalong was smack in the middle. So it's friend against friend, brother against brother, gun against blazing gun. Time's running out, and the range is red with blood. Hopalong Cassidy is a fictional cowboy hero create...

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Excerpt: ...prove that I am the best man, that’, s what I’, ll do! I’, ll pile ’, em in the coach and lug ’, em with me!”, grabbing, as he finished, one of the men by the foot and dragging him toward the stage. It took The Orphan and Shields several strenuous minutes to dissuade him from his purpose. Shields placed his fingers on the bones of Bill’, s hand in a peculiar grip, and the driver loosened his hold ...