George Bird Grinnell INTRODUCTION CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS CHAPTER I THE TRAGEDY AT POWELL'S CHAPTER II A ROBBER TURNED LOOSE CHAPTER III TO THE ROUND-UP CAMP CHAPTER IV OLD FRIENDS CHAPTER V CUTTING AND BRANDING CHAPTER VI RIDING CIRCLE CHAPTER VII A BULL FIGHT CHAPTER VIII A BUFFALO STORY CHAPTER IX VICENTE, COW HAND CHAPTER X THE FENCELESS LAND CHAPTER XI TANNING A BUCKSKIN CHAPTER XII INDIAN STORIES CHAPTER XIII BIG WOLVES CHAPTER XIV A BAD MAN CHAPTER XV AN ENGLISHMAN IN CAMP CHAPTER XVI A LESSON IN ROPING CHAPTER XVII DRIFTING CHAPTER XVIII A STAMPEDE CHAPTER XIX COW HORSES AND THEIR WORK CHAPTER XX ROPING A BEAR CHAPTER XXI A CALIFORNIA BEAR HUNT CHAPTER XXII HUNTING WITH A SIX-SHOOTER CHAPTER XXIII A LOAD OF MEAT CHAPTER XXIV FLAGGING AN ANTELOPE CHAPTER XXV THE DANCE AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE By the same Author Jack the Young Cowboy Jack the Young Trapper Jack the Young Canoeman Jack the Young Explorer Jack in the Rockies Jack Among the Indians Jack the Young Ranchman Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk Tales Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of the Indian The Indians of To-day The Punishment of the Stingy American Duck Shooting American Game Bird Shooting Trails of the Pathfinders

JACK
THE YOUNG COWBOY

An Eastern Boy's Experience on a
Western Round-up

BY
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL


WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS

NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
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Copyright, 1913, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company

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Ninth Printing, August 12, 1935




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