BUFFALO BILL’S RUSE OR, Won By Sheer Nerve BY Colonel Prentiss Ingraham Author of the celebrated “Buffalo Bill” stories published in the BORDER STORIES. For other titles see catalogue. [Illustration: Colophon] STREET & SMITH CORPORATION PUBLISHERS 79-89 Seventh Avenue, New York +----------------------------------+ | | | Copyright, 1906 and 1907 | | By STREET & SMITH | | ----- | | Buffalo Bill’s Ruse | | | +----------------------------------+ (Printed in the United States of America) All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian. CONTENTS PAGE IN APPRECIATION OF WILLIAM F. CODY 1 I. PIZEN KATE. 5 II. READY TO GO. 10 III. AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. 14 IV. PIZEN KATE FINDS HER HUSBAND. 19 V. MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCES. 25 VI. INDIAN TREACHERY. 31 VII. THE ATTACK OF THE MEXICAN 39 VIII. THE MYSTERIOUS YOUNG WOMAN. 43 IX. THE REDSKIN ROVERS. 51 X. SURROUNDED AND CAPTURED. 59 XI. ESCAPE. 66 XII. A DESPERATE VENTURE 73 XIII. THE FLIGHT OF THE FUGITIVES. 78 XIV. STRANGE HAPPENINGS. 83 XV. A DESPERATE BATTLE. 91 XVI. AT THE HOUSE ON THE MESA. 97 XVII. THE MYSTERY SOLVED. 107 XVIII. THE MYSTERIOUS NUGGET. 111 XIX. AT THE FORT. 121 XX. BRUTALITY. 129 XXI. ON THE BORDERS OF DISGRACE. 132 XXII. OUTSIDE THE WALLS. 141 XXIII. DRIVEN BY DESPERATION. 146 XXIV. THE MAN IN THE SHADOWS.