Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BLAZED TRAIL STORIES ----------------------------------------------------------------------- OTHER BOOKS BY THE SAME AUTHOR The Blazed Trail, The Silent Places, Conjuror's House The Westerners, The Claim Jumpers The Magic Forest, The Forest The Mountains ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [Illustration: Thomas Fogarty "FOR A MOMENT HE POISED ERECT IN THE GREAT CALM OF THE PUBLIC PERFORMER." (Page 6)] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BLAZED TRAIL STORIES AND STORIES OF THE WILD LIFE BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE NEW YORK McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO. MCMIV Copyright 1904, by Stewart Edward White Published September, 1904 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright 1899, 1902, 1903, by The S. S. McClure Co. Copyright 1901, by The Century Company. Copyright 1899, 1900, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright 1902, by Perry Mason Company. Copyright 1901, by Truth Company. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS PART I BLAZED TRAIL STORIES PAGE The Riverman 3 The Foreman 22 The Scaler 39 The River-Boss 58 The Fifth Way 73 The Life of the Winds of Heaven 83 PART II STORIES OF THE WILD LIFE The Girl Who Got Rattled 111 Billy's Tenderfoot 132 The Two Cartridges 153 The Race 180 The Saving Grace 198 The Prospector 222 The Girl in Red 246 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BLAZED TRAIL STORIES AND STORIES OF THE WILD LIFE I THE RIVERMAN