Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) [Illustration: “THE SPLENDID MOUNTAIN STREAM WAS A NEVER ENDING DELIGHT”] WILD ROSES _A Tale of the Rockies_ BY HOWARD R. DRIGGS [Illustration: colophon] UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND LINCOLN COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY THE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING COMPANY _All Rights Reserved_ To My Mother WHO LOVED THE WILD ROSES CONTENTS CHAPTER TITLE PAGE I. A COWBOY CELEBRATION 1 II. NEW TRAILS 15 III. MORGAN’S DANCE 28 IV. FIRE WATER 42 V. FISHERMAN’S LUCK 52 VI. ANKANAMP 65 VII. MOUNTAINEER MEMORIES 75 VIII. REMEMBERING THE EARLY DAYS 83 IX. AFTER THE BALL 99 X. COMPANIONSHIP 110 XI. MOUNTAIN FUN 120 XII. AMONG THE TEPEES 129 XIII. AT SHADOW POOL 138 XIV. AT THE OLD SHACK 147 XV. THE FATAL THROW 161 XVI. THE ROUNDUP 166 XVII. RANCH ROSES 177 XVIII. BY THE CABIN FIRE 196 XIX. IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS 204 XX. A TURN IN THE TRAIL 221 XXI. THE END OF THE LONG TRAIL 233 WILD ROSES CHAPTER I A COWBOY CELEBRATION