E-text prepared by Barbara Kosker and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 29119-h.htm or 29119-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/29119/pg29119-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/29119/29119-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/theyofthehigh00garlrich THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILS * * * * * BOOKS BY HAMLIN GARLAND THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILS. Illustrated. Post 8vo THE FORESTER'S DAUGHTER. Illustrated. Post 8vo VICTOR OLLNEE'S DISCIPLINE. Post 8vo CAVANAGH--FOREST RANGER. Post 8vo MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS. Post 8vo OTHER MAIN-TRAVELLED ROADS. Post 8vo ROSE OF DUTCHER'S COOLLY. Post 8vo THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP. Post 8vo PRAIRIE FOLKS. Post 8vo THE TRAIL OF THE GOLD-SEEKERS. Post 8vo BOY LIFE ON THE PRAIRIE. Illustrated. Post 8vo HESPER. Post 8vo THE LIGHT OF THE STAR. Illustrated. Post 8vo MONEY MAGIC. Illustrated. Post 8vo THE LONG TRAIL. Illustrated. Post 8vo THE MOCCASIN RANCH. Illustrated. Post 8vo THE TYRANNY OF THE DARK. Illustrated. Post 8vo THE SHADOW WORLD. Post 8vo HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK ESTABLISHED 1817 * * * * * [Illustration: [See page 220] "TAKE ME BACK--INSIDE," ALICE SAID. "I FEEL COLD HERE."] THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILS [Illustration] by HAMLIN GARLAND Illustrated [Illustration] Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London THEY OF THE HIGH TRAILS Copyright, 1902, 1906, 1908, 1910, 1913, 1914, 1915, by Hamlin Garland Copyright, 1916, by Harper & Brothers Printed in the United States of America Published April, 1916 CONTENTS PAGE FOREWORD ix I. THE GRUB-STAKER 3 II. THE COW-BOSS 31 III. THE REMITTANCE MAN 57 IV. THE LONESOME MAN 81 V. THE TRAIL TRAMP 95 VI. THE PROSPECTOR 155 VII. THE OUTLAW 181 VIII. THE LEASER 237 IX. THE FOREST RANGER 253 AFTERWORD 381 ILLUSTRATIONS "TAKE ME BACK--INSIDE," ALICE SAID. "I FEEL COLD HERE" _Frontispiece_ "YOU'RE PRETTY SWIFT, AREN'T YOU?" SHE SAID, CUTTINGLY _Facing p._ 38 THE WOMAN CARRIED HERSELF SO UNGRACEFULLY AND DRESSED SO PLAINLY THAT EVEN THE SALOON-DOOR LOAFERS CAST CONTEMPTUOUS GLANCES UPON HER _Facing p._ 254