Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) Two Boys in Wyoming A TALE OF ADVENTURE BY EDWARD S. ELLIS AUTHOR OF "DEERFOOT SERIES," "LOG CABIN SERIES," ETC. PHILADELPHIA HENRY T. COATES & CO. 1898 _Northwest Series, No. 3_ [Illustration: "They had come a goodly distance since morning."] CONTENTS. I. Jack and Fred II. Riding Northward III. On Guard IV. Visitors of the Night V. "Now for the Ranch" VI. At the Ranch VII. The First Game VIII. Look Before You Leap IX. Night in the Mountains X. The Signal-Fires XI. A King of the Forest XII. The Tug of War XIII. A Strange Occurrence XIV. Missing XV. Tozer XVI. Watching and Watched XVII. Into and Out of the Canyon XVIII. The Quest of the Cowman XIX. Into the Cavern XX. A Climb for Liberty XXI. How It All Ended List of Illustrations "They had come a goodly distance since morning." "On the projecting ledge stood a noble buck." "He was sweeping down upon them like a cyclone." "He was looking in the direction of the break in the canyon." TWO BOYS IN WYOMING. CHAPTER I. JACK AND FRED. You should have seen those youths, for it gives me pleasure to say that two manlier, more plucky and upright boys it would be hard to find anywhere in this broad land of ours. I have set out to tell you about their remarkable adventures in the grandest section of the West, and, before doing so, it is necessary for you to know something concerning the lads themselves. Jack Dudley was in his seventeenth year. His father was a prosperous merchant, who intended his only son for the legal profession. Jack was bright and studious, and a leader in his class at the Orphion Academy; and this leadership was not confined to his studies, for he was a fine athlete and an ardent lover of outdoor sports. If you witnessed the game between the eleven of the Orphion Academy and the Oakdale Football Club, which decided the championship by a single point in favor of the former, you were thrilled by the sight of the half-back, who, at a critical point in the contest, burst through the group which thronged about him, and, with a clear field in front, made a superb run of fifty yards, never pausing until he stooped behind the goal-posts and made a touchdown. Then, amid the cheers of the delighted thousands, he walked back on the field, and while one of the players lay down on the ground, with the spheroid delicately poised before his face, the same youth who made the touchdown smote the ball mightily with his sturdy right foot and sent it sailing between the goal-posts as accurately as an arrow launched from a bow.