Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: THE RANGER] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAVANAGH FOREST RANGER A Romance Of The Mountain West By HAMLIN GARLAND Author Of "The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop" "Main-Travelled Roads" Etc. HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS New York and London MCMX ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Books by HAMLIN GARLAND Cavanagh--Forest Ranger Post 8vo $1.50 The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop. Post 8vo 1.50 Hesper Post 8vo 1.50 Money Magic. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.50 The Light of the Star. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.50 The Tyranny of the Dark. Ill'd. Post 8vo 1.50 The Shadow World Post 8vo 1.35 Main-Travelled Roads Post 8vo 1.50 Prairie Folks Post 8vo 1.50 Rose of Dutcher's Coolly Post 8vo 1.50 The Moccasin Ranch. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.00 Trail of the Gold-Seekers Post 8vo 1.50 The Long Trail. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.25 Boy Life on the Prairie. Ill'd Post 8vo 1.50 (In Boys' and Girls' Library) .75 HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, N. Y. Copyright, 1910, by Hamlin Garland All rights reserved Published March, 1910 Printed in the United States of America ------------------------------------------------------------------------- TO THE FOREST RANGER WHOSE LONELY VIGIL ON THE HEIGHTS SAFEGUARDS THE PUBLIC HERITAGE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. The Desert Chariot 1 II. The Forest Ranger 20 III. Lee Virginia Wages War 35 IV. Virginia Takes Another Motor Ride 57 V. Two On the Veranda 80 VI. The Voice from the Heights 97 VII. The Poachers 115 VIII. The Second Attack 132 IX. The Old Sheep-Herder 149 X. The Smoke of the Burning 173 XI. Shadows on the Mist 187 XII. Cavanagh's Last Vigil Begins 217 XIII. Cavanagh Asks for Help 230 XIV. The Pest-House 247 XV. Wetherford Passes On 265 Conclusion 295 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION