item: #1 of 328 id: 10066 author: Brand, Max title: Gunman's Reckoning date: None words: 81683 flesch: 91 summary: It was now that Lewis saw Donnegan sitting the saddle directly behind him, and he whirled with a moan of fury. Once more Donnegan gained an impression of chained activity ready to rise to any emergency. keywords: big; chair; colonel; corner; donnegan; door; eyes; face; george; girl; glance; good; gun; hand; head; heart; house; jack; jack landis; joe; landis; lebrun; lefty; lord; lord nick; lou; macon; man; men; milligan; moment; nelly; nick; night; place; rix; room; thing; thought; time; voice; way cache: 10066.txt plain text: 10066.txt item: #2 of 328 id: 10124 author: Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank) title: Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John date: None words: 44190 flesch: 85 summary: They got a porter to assist her into the depot waiting room and then Uncle John inquired about the next train for Leadville, and found it would not start until the following morning, the late overland train having missed that day's connections. Toward sunset Uncle John figured, from the information he had received at Prescott, that they were yet thirty miles from Gerton, and so he decided to halt and make camp while there was yet sufficient daylight remaining to do so conveniently. keywords: automobile; beth; big; california; car; chauffeur; dan'l; dance; day; eyes; girls; good; head; hotel; john; jones; life; like; major; man; men; merrick; mumbles; myrtle; new; night; patsy; road; room; sir; thing; time; uncle; uncle john; wampus; way cache: 10124.txt plain text: 10124.txt item: #3 of 328 id: 10213 author: Gregory, Jackson title: The Everlasting Whisper date: None words: 115678 flesch: 90 summary: _Chapter XVII_ The magnificent wilderness into which rode Mark and Gloria King seemed to prostrate its august self to do them honour upon this their wedding morning. Her hands dropped to her sides, and were clenched; she lifted her chin; with all that strength that lay in the innermost soul of Gloria King she strove to drive her great fear out of her eyes, to hide it from their wolfish regard, to summon up in its stead a mocking inscrutability. keywords: ben; benny; body; brodie; cave; clear; cold; coming; day; days; door; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; gaynor; girl; gloria; gloria gaynor; gloria king; god; gold; good; gratton; half; hands; head; heart; honeycutt; jarrold; jim; king; know; lay; left; life; look; love; man; mark king; men; moment; mother; mountains; night; place; rifle; set; snow; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; world cache: 10213.txt plain text: 10213.txt item: #4 of 328 id: 10324 author: Brand, Max title: Bull Hunter date: None words: 53675 flesch: 92 summary: No wonder, then, that as he climbed the ladder up the side of the barn, with the ladder quaking beneath his weight, Bull Hunter began to sing, his thundering bass ringing among the ranch buildings until Mrs. Bridewell opened the kitchen window to hear the better, and old Bridewell stopped his ears in mock dismay at the thunder of Bull's voice. Bull Hunter thanked him for the courtesy as though it had been a direct personal favor; as a matter of fact, Hal felt that he was merely taking care of a horse which was already as good as his. Coming back toward the house Bull walked slowly in the rear of the little party. keywords: big; bill; bull; bull hunter; day; diablo; dunbar; eyes; face; good; gun; hal; hand; harry; head; horse; life; man; men; pete; pete reeve; reeve; right; sheriff; stallion; tell; thing; time; tod; uncle; voice; way cache: 10324.txt plain text: 10324.txt item: #5 of 328 id: 10372 author: Vachell, Horace Annesley title: Bunch Grass: A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch date: None words: 87758 flesch: 89 summary: Ajax suggested that we should employ old man Dumble to help us to recover the stolen property. Wal, said old man Dumble, it's this way. keywords: ajax; angela; bishop; boys; brother; bud; county; dan; day; dennis; dick; dollars; eyes; face; father; fer; friend; girl; gloriana; good; half; hand; head; hev; home; house; jake; jap; jasperson; jeff; jim; kind; land; left; life; look; lorenzo; love; mamie; man; men; miss; money; mrs; nal; panel; pap; pete; poor; professor; ranch; right; room; san; saw; smoky; tell; ter; things; thought; till; time; tom; uncle; voice; water; way; white; woman; word; work; yer cache: 10372.txt plain text: 10372.txt item: #6 of 328 id: 10374 author: Bowman, Earl Wayland title: The Ramblin' Kid date: None words: 74613 flesch: 85 summary: Skinny Rawlins, at an increase of ten dollars a month on his wage, protestingly, was elected official love-maker to Carolyn June Dixon, Old Heck's niece, speeding unsuspectingly toward the Quarter Circle KT, and Old Heck and Parker between them were to divide the affections of Ophelia Cobb, widow and chaperon. As the cook and her daughter by their very homeliness had appalled and overwhelmed them, these two, Ophelia and Carolyn June, by their exactly opposite appearance stunned Old Heck and Skinny and rendered them speechless with embarrassment. keywords: away; bert; butte; captain; carolyn june; charley; chuck; circle; corral; cowboys; day; dorsey; dust; eagle; eyes; face; filly; gold; good; half; hand; head; heck; horse; jack; kid; left; little; look; love; man; maverick; moment; night; ophelia; parker; quarter; ramblin; ride; room; sabota; saddle; skinny; thought; time; white; widow cache: 10374.txt plain text: 10374.txt item: #7 of 328 id: 10404 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Man-Size date: None words: 78945 flesch: 94 summary: The girl's reverie stirred reflection of other men, for already she had suitors in plenty. Best man wins. keywords: angus; beresford; big; bully; bully west; business; camp; chance; chapter; constable; day; dogs; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; fire; friend; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; indian; jessie; know; left; life; look; man; mcrae; men; mind; moment; morse; mounted; north; onistah; red; right; set; snow; thought; time; tom; tom morse; trader; trail; voice; way; west; whaley; whiskey; white; word; young cache: 10404.txt plain text: 10404.txt item: #8 of 328 id: 10473 author: White, William Patterson title: The Heart of the Range date: None words: 93176 flesch: 96 summary: Mr. Racey Dawson, having successfully sung the first verse, rested both elbows on the bar and grinned at the bartender. Racey stood here an'-- At this point Racey Dawson went elsewhere. keywords: bar; bull; business; come; dale; dolan; door; dunno; eyes; face; feller; girl; good; guess; hand; harpe; head; horse; huh; jack; judge; lanpher; left; look; luke; man; marie; mcfluke; molly; money; nebraska; peaches; racey; racey dawson; rack; right; room; round; saltoun; sheriff; shore; stranger; swing; thompson; thought; time; tunstall; tweezy; way; yo're; yore cache: 10473.txt plain text: 10473.txt item: #9 of 328 id: 10601 author: Brand, Max title: The Rangeland Avenger date: None words: 79186 flesch: 93 summary: Get Riley Sinclair. Get Riley Sinclair; quick. keywords: arizona; big; cartwright; cold; creek; door; eyes; face; feet; gaspar; gent; girl; going; good; gun; hand; head; horse; jig; kern; look; lowrie; man; men; mind; moment; quade; riley sinclair; room; sally; sandersen; sheriff; sinclair; tell; thing; time; trail; voice; way cache: 10601.txt plain text: 10601.txt item: #10 of 328 id: 10886 author: Brand, Max title: The Untamed date: None words: 73959 flesch: 96 summary: Whistling Dan shifted in the saddle. Dan, I'm goin' to ask you a favour--an' a big one; will you do it for me? Sure, said Whistling Dan. keywords: bart; black; buck; calder; came; dan; daniels; door; eyes; face; girl; goin'; gun; haines; hand; head; house; jest; jim; kate; lee; like; look; man; men; moment; morgan; old; place; purvis; right; room; satan; silent; think; time; voice; way; whistling; wolf cache: 10886.txt plain text: 10886.txt item: #11 of 328 id: 10932 author: Palmer, Frederick title: Over the Pass date: None words: 117888 flesch: 85 summary: Jack Wingfield! said Jack, on his own account. The gloomier he was the better he went and the better Jack Wingfield liked him; which was Bob's way of interpreting Jack's instructions. keywords: answer; care; coming; day; desert; doctor; doge; door; ear; end; ewold; eyes; face; father; firio; galway; glance; god; going; good; half; hand; head; home; house; jack; jack wingfield; jag; jasper; jim; john; kind; know; leddy; life; look; man; mary; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; new; p.d; pass; pete; place; prather; right; rivers; room; rose; set; señor jack; silence; sir; smile; son; store; thing; thought; time; town; trail; turn; voice; want; water; way; wingfield; world cache: 10932.txt plain text: 10932.txt item: #12 of 328 id: 11093 author: Brand, Max title: Trailin'! date: None words: 74379 flesch: 91 summary: My old pal, Steve Nash, said Sally, and this is Mr. Anthony Bard. I'm on my way to the A Circle Y. Listen; I'm all for old man Drew. keywords: anthony; away; bard; big; butch; day; door; drew; eldara; eyes; face; girl; glendin; going; good; grey; gun; hand; head; hell; hoss; house; john; lawlor; left; little; look; man; men; mind; moment; nash; night; place; range; ride; room; sally; smile; steve; table; tenderfoot; time; voice; way; woodbury cache: 11093.txt plain text: 11093.txt item: #13 of 328 id: 11501 author: Beach, Rex title: Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories date: None words: 92126 flesch: 86 summary: He had dared to put faith in his perfect happiness, thinking himself different from other men and Lois superior to other wives, wherefore he now called himself a fool! Sprawled beside the shore, five miles away, was Nome, its ugliness of corrugated iron, rough boards, and tar paper somewhat softened by the distance. He had been a man of consequence in Nome; he had made money and he had handled other men, therefore his sense of failure was the bitterer. keywords: anderson; austin; away; believe; bill; black; bridge; burns; business; chance; course; day; days; doctor; eyes; face; fact; fellow; find; folsom; francis; girl; god; going; gold; good; great; half; hand; hanford; head; heart; house; hyde; job; know; laughing; lay; life; long; look; love; man; men; mike; miss; mitchell; moment; money; morning; new; office; paul; people; phillips; place; play; right; room; sir; sort; story; thing; thomas; time; voice; want; way; white; wife; woman; work; wylie; young cache: 11501.txt plain text: 11501.txt item: #14 of 328 id: 11880 author: Brand, Max title: Ronicky Doone date: None words: 57960 flesch: 94 summary: I suppose clever Ronicky Doone rehearsed you in it, but it needed only the oldest trick in the world to expose you. Thinking is a bad thing, mostly, don't you agree, Ronicky? It sure is, replied Ronicky Doone instantly. keywords: bill; bill gregg; caroline; door; eyes; face; fernand; gent; girl; good; gregg; hand; head; house; jerry; john; life; man; mark; moment; right; ronicky; ronicky doone; room; ruth; smith; street; talk; thing; time; way cache: 11880.txt plain text: 11880.txt item: #15 of 328 id: 11960 author: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove title: The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On date: None words: 40689 flesch: 92 summary: She came to the gate and she peeped in-- Grass and the weeds up to her chin; Said, 'A rake and a hoe and a fantail plow Would suit you better than a wife just now.' Said you could locate a claim bounded on all sides by paying property and gopher through to China without ever striking ore. keywords: anastacio; applegate; away; big; chris; come; creagan; day; door; eyes; face; foy; friend; good; gun; hand; head; horse; john; judge; left; lisner; look; loring; major; man; men; mitchell; money; new; nueces; pringle; right; sheriff; stella; steve; thompson; thought; time; way; wesley; wyatt cache: 11960.txt plain text: 11960.txt item: #16 of 328 id: 12139 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Gringos A Story Of The Old California Days In 1849 date: None words: 80105 flesch: 84 summary: she cried passionately, just when Jack believed she was going to cry Señor Jack? in that pretty, cooing tone she had that could make the words as tender as a kiss. Manuel, she's go lak hell for tella Señor Jack, José, she's lak for fight duelo. keywords: allen; andres; bill; black; captain; committee; crowd; dade; day; don; eyes; face; feet; good; gringos; half; hand; head; heart; horse; jack; jerry; josé; land; life; lips; little; look; love; man; manuel; men; need; place; pretty; riata; ride; right; saddle; señor; señor jack; señorita; smile; surry; teresita; thing; time; town; valencia; valley; vaqueros; way; white cache: 12139.txt plain text: 12139.txt item: #17 of 328 id: 12189 author: Knibbs, Henry Herbert title: Jim Waring of Sonora-Town; Or, Tang of Life date: None words: 90474 flesch: 94 summary: Yet the writer had known men physically inconsequent who possessed a fine strain of courage, loyalty, honor. Do you want to know what would happen if you was to try to get a holt of said gun if Jim Waring was on his two feet? keywords: adams; alice; big; bondsman; boy; bronson; bud; chin; come; country; day; dorothy; eyes; face; folks; girl; good; gun; hand; head; high; horse; jim; john; kind; know; lorry; man; men; mesa; mrs; pat; ramon; reckon; ride; right; room; saddle; señor; shoop; starr; street; tell; thought; time; town; trail; waco; want; waring; way; weston; work; young cache: 12189.txt plain text: 12189.txt item: #18 of 328 id: 12192 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Long Shadow date: None words: 57555 flesch: 85 summary: How old is she, charming Billy? Twice six, twice seven, Forty-nine and eleven-- The bartender, wiping the bar after an unsteady sheepherder, was careful to leave a generous margin around the person of Charming Billy who was at that moment asserting with much emphasis: She's a young thing, and cannot leave her mother. Mr. Boyle, began Dill at last, in the hesitating way that he had used when Billy first met him, you say you know this country, and have worked at cattle-raising for a good many years-- Twelve, supplemented Charming Billy. keywords: billy; billy boyle; bridger; brown; cattle; crank; creek; day; dill; door; eyes; face; flora; going; head; horse; joy; know; land; left; look; man; men; miss; pilgrim; place; range; right; things; think; thought; time; want; way; william; yuh cache: 12192.txt plain text: 12192.txt item: #19 of 328 id: 12270 author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn title: The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California date: None words: 50795 flesch: 84 summary: It is Don Diego Estenega, said one of the girls. Don Diego Estenega, said the Governor, will you tell us what you have thought whilst the others have talked? Estenega, who had been star-gazing, turned to Alvarado, ignoring the Junta. keywords: alvarado; black; brother; california; chonita; day; diego; don; door; doña; estenega; eyes; face; father; god; gold; good; hair; hand; head; heart; house; iturbi; life; little; love; man; men; mind; moment; night; prudencia; reinaldo; room; thou; thought; thy; time; valencia; white; woman cache: 12270.txt plain text: 12270.txt item: #20 of 328 id: 12281 author: Adams, Andy title: Cattle Brands: A Collection of Western Camp-Fire Stories date: None words: 71537 flesch: 83 summary: The boys from the other herds--good men, too--kept shooting them into the water, and inside fifteen minutes' time we were in the big Injun Territory. It's all right with me, but good men must be scarce in your section or you've improved rapidly since you left us. keywords: away; baugh; boys; camp; cattle; chief; company; country; cow; cut; day; days; don; edwards; feet; good; half; hand; head; herd; home; horses; hour; indian; jack; life; line; man; men; miles; miller; money; morning; mother; near; new; night; outfit; people; ramon; range; river; robbers; rope; saddle; steer; texas; time; town; trail; wagon; water; winter; work; years cache: 12281.txt plain text: 12281.txt item: #21 of 328 id: 12388 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Courage of Captain Plum date: None words: 53995 flesch: 89 summary: I, Captain Nathaniel Plum, do solemnly swear before God-- A thrilling inspiration shot into Captain Plum's brain. I will go with you, Captain Nathaniel Plum, called Obadiah. keywords: arms; captain; captain plum; come; councilor; door; eyes; face; feet; girl; half; hand; head; king; lips; man; marion; moment; nathaniel; neil; night; obadiah; plum; room; saw; strang; time; voice; way; words cache: 12388.txt plain text: 12388.txt item: #22 of 328 id: 12419 author: Harte, Bret title: Frontier Stories date: None words: 139697 flesch: 80 summary: Said he reckoned the Lone Star was about played out, and he didn't want any more in his--thank you! repeated the Judge with a mechanical effort of memory utterly devoid of personal or present interest. I say, old man, he said, with a strange smile and an odd, premature suggestion of the infinite weariness of death in his voice, you wouldn't mind giving me this, would you? keywords: air; bower; brace; cabin; cass; child; companion; course; dark; daughter; day; don; door; dunn; eyes; face; father; feet; figure; fire; flip; girl; god; good; half; hand; head; horse; indian; josã; judge; know; lance; leave; left; life; lips; look; low; man; mind; miss; moment; morning; mountain; mrs; nellie; new; nott; patterson; pedro; place; poindexter; renshaw; return; right; ring; road; room; rosey; round; ship; silence; sleight; smile; spring; star; stranger; teresa; thing; thought; time; trail; tree; tucker; voice; want; water; way; white; woman; woods; wynn; yer cache: 12419.txt plain text: 12419.txt item: #23 of 328 id: 12436 author: Brand, Max title: The Night Horseman date: None words: 93383 flesch: 91 summary: He let the cook feed him a chunk o' meat the other day; and you remember he don't usually touch stuff that other men have handled. Then, said Mac Strann, I got to leave the buryin' to other men what I'll hire. keywords: away; barry; bart; black; buck; buck daniels; byrne; chair; cumberland; dan; dan barry; daniels; day; doctor; dog; door; eyes; face; fire; girl; god; hand; haw; head; heart; horse; hoss; jerry; jerry strann; joe; kate; langley; lay; light; look; mac; mac strann; man; men; moment; place; room; saw; sound; strann; thing; time; voice; whistling; wind; wolf cache: 12436.txt plain text: 12436.txt item: #24 of 328 id: 12495 author: Bower, B. M. title: Casey Ryan date: None words: 62947 flesch: 86 summary: Casey wondered uneasily whether by any chance he, Casey Ryan, was growing old with the rest of the world. They were a long while there exchanging disagreeable opinions of one another, and Casey was even obliged to climb the steep bank and whip the driver of the Ford because he had applied a word to Casey which had never failed as automatic prelude to a Casey Ryan combat. keywords: babe; bill; camp; car; casey; casey ryan; day; eyes; find; ford; garage; git; goats; going; gold; good; half; hand; head; injun; jim; lake; left; like; long; look; lund; man; mebby; men; money; place; red; right; road; saw; tell; things; thought; time; tires; trail; want; water; way; white; william; woman; yuh cache: 12495.txt plain text: 12495.txt item: #25 of 328 id: 12570 author: Bower, B. M. title: Starr, of the Desert date: None words: 72635 flesch: 84 summary: Oh! said Helen May quite flatly, dropping her hands from her sunburned face and looking Starr over with the self-possessed, inquiring eyes of one who is accustomed to gazing upon strange faces by the thousands. To find Helen May away out here, eight miles and more from Sunlight Basin, and to find her walking, shocked Starr unspeakably; shocked him out of his shyness and into free speech with her, as though he had known her a long while. keywords: country; day; desert; dog; door; elfigo; estan; eyes; face; goats; good; half; hand; head; helen; holman; home; horse; left; little; look; luis; man; matter; medina; men; mexican; mexico; mind; new; pat; peter; place; point; rabbit; ridge; right; sheriff; sommers; starr; things; thought; time; town; trail; vic; voice; want; way; work cache: 12570.txt plain text: 12570.txt item: #26 of 328 id: 12663 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Phantom Herd date: None words: 69231 flesch: 85 summary: Oh, Luck Lindsay! came Rosemary's voice at last, with what Luck fancied was a malicious note in it. That evening, when they were luxuriating before the fireplace heaped with dry wood which the flames were licking greedily, Luck became, for the first time in months, the old Luck Lindsay who had fascinated them at the Flying U. keywords: andy; annie; applehead; big; boys; brown; bunch; camera; cattle; come; company; day; days; eyes; face; family; film; going; good; half; hand; herd; house; little; look; luck; luck lindsay; man; martinson; medicine; mind; money; picture; place; ponies; range; real; right; rosemary; scenes; set; snow; son; story; stuff; things; time; want; way; western; wind; work; yuh cache: 12663.txt plain text: 12663.txt item: #27 of 328 id: 12791 author: Adams, Andy title: Wells Brothers: The Young Cattle Kings date: None words: 76314 flesch: 84 summary: The first herd of trail cattle to leave Dodge City, Kansas, for the Northwest, during the summer of 1885, was owned by the veteran drover, Don Lovell. Dell and Sargent accompanied the last Lovell herd into the ranch that evening, and it proved to be the rear guard of trail cattle for that summer. keywords: beaver; beef; beeves; boys; brothers; camp; cattle; come; corral; cow; creek; day; dell; evening; foreman; forrest; good; hand; herd; hold; home; horses; hour; joel; left; line; lovell; man; men; miles; morning; night; outfit; priest; ranch; range; saddle; sargent; storm; time; trail; valley; wagon; want; water; way; wells; winter; work; year cache: 12791.txt plain text: 12791.txt item: #28 of 328 id: 12797 author: Adams, Andy title: The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days date: None words: 100657 flesch: 76 summary: Through cattle herds were in sight both up and down the river on either side, and on crossing the Mulberry the day before, we learned that several herds were holding out as far south as that stream, while McNulta had reported over forty herds as having already passed northward on the trail. Billy Honeyman, however, had noticed several horses that were inclined to stray on day herd, and these few leaders were so well marked in his memory that, as a matter of precaution, he insisted on putting a rope hobble on them. keywords: afternoon; bed; boys; bridge; camp; cattle; country; creek; crossing; cut; day; days; dinner; drive; evening; fire; flood; ford; foreman; forrest; good; guard; half; hand; herd; honeyman; horses; hour; lead; left; lovell; man; mccann; men; miles; morning; near; night; night horses; north; number; officer; outfit; point; priest; rear; rebel; ride; riding; river; rope; saddle; second; stallings; time; town; trail; wagon; water; way; work cache: 12797.txt plain text: 12797.txt item: #29 of 328 id: 13135 author: Beach, Rex title: Pardners date: None words: 44347 flesch: 89 summary: Were it not manifestly impossible he supposed other men in other lands knew other ladies as beautiful, and it furthermore grew upon him blackly, in the thick gloom, that in all this world of womanly sweetness and beauty, no modicum of it was for the misshapen dwarf of the Bar X outfit. It changed him, raised and beatified him into the likeness of other men, and now, as he pondered, he was aware of a consuming thirst engendered by the heat of his earlier emotions. keywords: air; away; bailey; bar; big; black; boys; camp; captain; cold; day; days; dogs; door; eyes; face; feet; game; george; girl; god; going; good; half; hand; head; house; kid; left; let; life; look; man; men; mind; morrow; night; pierre; river; run; saw; snow; tell; thought; time; trail; voice; white; willard; wind; woman; work cache: 13135.txt plain text: 13135.txt item: #30 of 328 id: 13194 author: White, Stewart Edward title: The Rules of the Game date: None words: 191709 flesch: 86 summary: Well, he sent you this message: 'Tell Bob to go ahead. PART FOUR I When next Bob was able to visit the Upper Camp, he found Thorne fully established. keywords: air; amy; attention; away; baker; bill; blue; bob; boys; business; california; camp; case; cattle; caught; chance; charge; close; company; country; course; cut; day; days; drive; elliott; end; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; fell; fire; forest; going; good; government; ground; half; hand; head; high; horse; jack; job; john; knew; land; law; lay; left; life; line; little; logs; look; looking; lumber; man; matter; men; mill; mind; moment; morning; mountain; new; office; old; oldham; open; orde; people; pine; place; plant; point; pollock; power; ranger; right; river; road; run; saddle; saleratus; samuels; saw; set; sort; tell; things; think; thorne; thought; timber; time; time bob; trail; trees; use; want; ware; water; way; welton; white; work; years; young cache: 13194.txt plain text: 13194.txt item: #31 of 328 id: 13405 author: Marryat, Frederick title: The Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet in California, Sonora, and Western Texas date: None words: 152250 flesch: 67 summary: They evidently anticipated that they would become great men in the republic, upon the safe delivery of our persons to the Mexican Government, and every day took good care to remind us that the gibbet was to be our fate on our arrival. I do not mean to say that all the animals, as the buffaloes, mustangs, deer, &c., had run this distance; of course, as the fire rolled on, the animals were gradually collected, till they had formed the astounding mass which I have described, and thousands had probably already perished, long before the fire had reached the prairie where we were encamped; still I have at other times witnessed the extraordinary exertions which animals are capable of when under the influence of fear. keywords: animal; apaches; arrapahoes; bear; body; buffalo; chief; children; comanches; country; course; crows; day; days; death; direction; distance; dogs; dollars; east; evening; expedition; far; father; feet; fire; gabriel; general; good; government; ground; half; hand; having; head; heart; horses; house; indians; joe; journey; kind; land; left; life; long; man; men; mexican; miles; moment; money; monterey; morning; mountains; new; night; north; party; pass; people; place; prairie; red; return; rifle; river; roche; shoshones; smith; south; spirit; states; stream; texas; thought; time; tribe; warriors; water; way; west; western; white; wild; yards; years; young cache: 13405.txt plain text: 13405.txt item: #32 of 328 id: 13670 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Happy Family date: None words: 69450 flesch: 85 summary: But Andy Green had not called for his time, and he had no intention of quitting; for Andy was also suffering from that uncomfortable malady which we call hurt pride, and for it he knew but one remedy--a remedy which he was impatient to apply. That, and much more, brought about a distinct coldness between the Happy Family and one Andy Green, so that the sun went down upon Andy's wrath, and rose to find it still bubbling hotly in the outraged heart of him. keywords: andy; andy green; blue; camp; chip; cook; day; eyes; face; family; find; girl; going; golly; good; half; happy; head; horse; irish; jack; jakie; know; left; look; man; men; new; patsy; pink; place; ride; riding; right; roan; saddle; saw; slim; things; think; thought; time; want; way; weary; white; wild; yuh cache: 13670.txt plain text: 13670.txt item: #33 of 328 id: 13709 author: Lewis, Alfred Henry title: Wolfville Nights date: None words: 86086 flesch: 83 summary: An' I'm driven to concede that the put-back work of said party is like a romance; puttin' back's his speshulty. He can argue that the cattle kills themse'fs--sort o' commits sooicide inadvertent--an' if we-all trades up on him with the beef, he insists on his innocence, an' puts it up that his cuttin' in on the play after said cattle done slays themse'fs injures nobody but coyotes. keywords: aaron; ag'in; away; bar; bein; bill; black; boggs; bowlaigs; camp; cattle; cherokee; cloud; colonel; coyote; dan; dave; day; days; doc; dog; drink; easy; enright; evenin; eyes; folks; foot; game; gent; gets; goin'; good; gun; half; hand; head; heap; high; himse'f; hoss; injuns; jack; jennie; jerry; jest; lance; light; little; looks; loose; major; makes; man; mebby; mighty; moment; myse'f; nell; nothin'; onder; party; peets; phil; play; plenty; plumb; raven; red; round; sech; sharp; shore; silver; sort; squaw; stands; texas; thar; time; tom; trail; tucson; turns; war; way; white; wolfville; yere cache: 13709.txt plain text: 13709.txt item: #34 of 328 id: 13717 author: Taylor, Edward C. title: Ted Strong's Motor Car Or, Fast and Furious date: None words: 91282 flesch: 92 summary: Ted saw Bud come through the door into the waiting room from the midway of the station, look up and wave his hand, with a frown and a shake of the head that told him his pard's quest for the missing baggage had been fruitless. The rope began to go faster, and before the sleepy men in the hole had been able to sit up and rub their eyes, Ted saw Stella reach the top and disappear over its edge. keywords: ben; big; boys; bud; bull; car; cattle; checkers; cow; creviss; crowd; day; dick; door; eyes; face; feet; fellow; fer; girl; good; great; hand; head; herd; hole; house; indian; kit; know; left; like; look; man; men; moment; money; pony; race; ranch; rhue; ride; right; room; run; saddle; shan; shot; stella; strong; ted; ter; thar; ther; thet; think; thought; time; town; valley; way; wuz; yer cache: 13717.txt plain text: 13717.txt item: #35 of 328 id: 13937 author: Grey, Zane title: The Mysterious Rider date: None words: 99436 flesch: 96 summary: She particularly shrank from meeting Wade, which feeling was in strange contrast to her former impulses. Wade--Bent Wade, said Wade, with quiet distinctness. keywords: belllounds; bent; buster; cabin; cattle; collie; columbine; come; cowboy; dad; day; eyes; face; father; fer; girl; good; gun; hand; head; heart; hell; home; horse; hunter; jack; jack belllounds; jim; left; lem; life; look; love; man; men; moore; rancher; reckon; right; slides; tell; thet; think; time; trail; voice; wade; wal; want; way; white; wilson; years cache: 13937.txt plain text: 13937.txt item: #36 of 328 id: 14085 author: Knibbs, Henry Herbert title: Partners of Chance date: None words: 53940 flesch: 92 summary: Wonder where he lost young Bartley? At first Bartley thought the dog had shown wisdom and had departed for San Andreas, but, happening to glance down on the other side of his horse, he saw the dog trotting along, close to Dobe's heels. keywords: aunt; bartley; big; cheyenne; country; dorothy; father; frank; git; good; gun; head; horses; jane; jim; jimmy; kind; little; man; men; panhandle; ranch; ride; right; road; saddle; senator; sneed; steve; thought; time; town; trail; uncle; way; wishful cache: 14085.txt plain text: 14085.txt item: #37 of 328 id: 14171 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: A Man Four-Square date: None words: 71709 flesch: 94 summary: Women and children and old men dribbled out from the houses, all eager for the news. He's got a daughter that's sure a pippin, old man Roubideau has. keywords: away; billie; boy; business; cattle; chance; clanton; dad; dave; day; eyes; face; fellow; forward; friend; girl; goin'; good; goodheart; gun; hand; head; heart; horse; jim; lee; left; life; live; man; men; mind; pauline; polly; prince; right; river; roubideau; roush; saddle; sheriff; shot; snaith; tell; time; town; trail; voice; want; way; webb; yankie; young cache: 14171.txt plain text: 14171.txt item: #38 of 328 id: 14334 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Range Dwellers date: None words: 46600 flesch: 87 summary: Dad, let me introduce you to Miss--Mrs. Beryl King--that is, Carleton; my _wife_. I'm very glad to meet you, Mrs. Beryl King--that is, Carleton, he said, mimicking me. keywords: beryl; bit; car; dad; day; divide; edith; eyes; fellow; frosty; good; hand; highway; home; horse; king; look; lot; man; perry; potter; ranch; right; tell; things; thought; time; trail; way; weaver; white; yuh cache: 14334.txt plain text: 14334.txt item: #39 of 328 id: 14348 author: Wilson, Harry Leon title: Ma Pettengill date: None words: 108359 flesch: 85 summary: Said Vida in this letter: My heart stopped when he suddenly declared in cool, terrible tones: 'There's always the river!' Good old Ben! Won't he be in a frenzy when he finds this paltry insult has been sneaked into the files in place of his report on me! keywords: aunt; away; ben; big; bit; boy; boys; business; car; clyde; couple; course; cousin; day; days; dollars; face; fair; find; gap; girl; going; good; guess; half; head; heart; herman; homer; house; kind; lady; left; lew; life; look; lot; man; mebbe; men; minute; money; morning; mother; mrs; new; oswald; people; pettengill; place; poor; red; right; room; round; safety; sandy; set; shelley; talk; thing; thought; time; town; trunk; vernabelle; vida; war; way; wee; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 14348.txt plain text: 14348.txt item: #40 of 328 id: 14362 author: Hough, Emerson title: The Way of a Man date: None words: 98904 flesch: 90 summary: I say, old man, he went on, a trifle weary now, you've won. That was like my father--innocent, unsuspicious, ever ready to accept other men as worthy of his trust, and ever ready to help a stranger as he might. keywords: arm; army; auberry; belknap; colonel; come; country; cowles; day; ellen; eyes; face; father; girl; good; grace; half; hand; head; heart; home; horse; john; kitty; left; life; line; look; love; man; mandy; men; meriwether; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; night; old; orme; river; saw; sheraton; sir; sort; stevenson; thee; things; thought; time; valley; virginia; war; way; west; white; woman; world cache: 14362.txt plain text: 14362.txt item: #41 of 328 id: 14376 author: Wilson, Harry Leon title: Somewhere in Red Gap date: None words: 111605 flesch: 84 summary: And there they was at work, busy as beavers, gouging up the very last remnant of little old New York when it was that. 'Good old Ben will enjoy it, too,' says Alonzo; 'and, furthermore, Ben will straighten out one or two little things that have puzzled me about this poet. keywords: 'em; alonzo; angus; away; ben; bet; bit; boy; brother; car; comes; course; day; dollars; door; egbert; ellabelle; evening; eyes; face; gap; girl; good; great; hand; head; hetty; home; house; jeff; jimmie; judge; kind; know; ladies; lady; law; left; life; little; lon; look; looking; lot; man; manner; mebbe; men; minute; moment; money; mrs; new; open; pete; place; play; pretty; price; ranch; real; red; right; round; sandy; saying; set; sir; song; talk; thing; thought; time; town; want; way; wilbur; wilfred; woman; work; world; years; york; yorker; young cache: 14376.txt plain text: 14376.txt item: #42 of 328 id: 14456 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Uphill Climb date: None words: 55802 flesch: 85 summary: Said Ford told him p'tic'ler not to bring out nothin' any nearer drinkable than lemon extract! Somewhere, back toward the rim of mountains which showed a faint violet against the sky to the east, he owned a friend; and that friend owned a stock ranch which, Ford judged, must be of goodly extent; two weeks before, hearing somehow that Ford Campbell was running a poker game in Sunset, the friend had written and asked him to come and take charge of his outfit, on the plea that, his foreman having died, he was burdened with many cares and in urgent need of help. keywords: bill; buddy; ches; day; dick; door; eyes; face; ford; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; help; house; jim; josephine; jug; kate; know; life; long; look; man; mason; men; mose; mrs; ranch; right; rock; room; sandy; think; thought; time; want; way; whisky; woman cache: 14456.txt plain text: 14456.txt item: #43 of 328 id: 14482 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Story of the Foss River Ranch: A Tale of the Northwest date: None words: 99961 flesch: 87 summary: But we're not old men yet. There were old men and there were young men. keywords: abbot; allandale; bill; breed; bunning; business; cattle; companion; direction; doctor; door; eyes; face; ford; foss; game; girl; good; guess; half; hand; head; horrocks; horse; jacky; john; know; lablache; left; lender; life; look; lord; man; men; moment; money; path; place; poker; prairie; rancher; retief; right; river; room; round; set; settlement; tell; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; window; words; work cache: 14482.txt plain text: 14482.txt item: #44 of 328 id: 14486 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Thunder Bird date: None words: 70857 flesch: 88 summary: He had promised to call her up, but there hadn't been any news to tell, nothing but the flat monotony of inaction, which meant failure, and Johnny Jewel never liked talking of his failures, even to Mary V. Oh, Johnny, is that you? She had told Johnny Jewel that she would expect him to fly straight to the ranch--if Johnny loved her. keywords: airplane; bird; bland; car; cliff; course; dad; day; dollars; eyes; face; flying; good; half; head; johnny; johnny jewel; left; life; line; look; lowell; man; mary; mary v; mateo; men; mind; money; motor; need; pay; plane; ranch; right; rolling; sake; sudden; tell; things; think; thought; thunder; time; way; yuh cache: 14486.txt plain text: 14486.txt item: #45 of 328 id: 14520 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Mavericks date: None words: 77769 flesch: 95 summary: It was a grim, business-like posse, composed of good men and true who had been sifted in the impartial sieve of life on the turbid frontier. I dare say you have your faults like other men, but I don't have to listen to people while they try to poison my mind against you. keywords: boy; boys; brill; buck; day; dixon; door; eyes; face; friend; girl; going; good; hand; head; healy; hills; home; horse; jim; keller; left; life; look; man; men; miss; nester; phil; phyllis; right; room; round; saddle; sanderson; saw; shot; thing; time; tom; trail; voice; way; weaver; yeager; young cache: 14520.txt plain text: 14520.txt item: #46 of 328 id: 14542 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories date: None words: 53890 flesch: 88 summary: That dream'll come true; you see if it don't! I--I wouldn't worry over just a bad dream, Mr. Weary, comforted Pink. And, Mr. Weary, next time yuh give a man a horse t' fall off from, for the Lord's sake don't put him on a gentle old skate that would be pickings for a two-year-old kid. keywords: bit; bunch; cal; chip; day; dock; eyes; face; family; feet; glory; good; hand; happy; hat; head; horse; irish; jack; know; little; look; man; miss; pink; place; right; saddle; schoolma'am; spikes; stood; tell; thing; thought; time; town; trail; want; way; weary; white; yuh cache: 14542.txt plain text: 14542.txt item: #47 of 328 id: 14545 author: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove title: Copper Streak Trail date: None words: 52048 flesch: 91 summary: Mr. Pete Johnson sighed in sympathy. You've shot away all the cartridges in your belts and most of the box, and it hasn't got you anywheres, observed Pete Johnson pensively. keywords: away; big; bill; black; boland; boy; carr; cobre; day; dewing; eyes; face; find; francis; good; gun; hand; head; high; hill; horses; house; jail; johnson; know; left; little; look; man; mcclintock; men; mitchell; money; mountain; new; pete; pete johnson; red; right; round; saw; selden; sheriff; stanley; thing; thought; time; vesper; want; water; way; word; young; zurich cache: 14545.txt plain text: 14545.txt item: #48 of 328 id: 14574 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West date: None words: 84322 flesch: 94 summary: Before that, as young men, they had been candidates for the hand of the girl that the better one had won. I'm not in the habit of inviting young men to invite me to take a soda, Mr. Sanders, she went on. keywords: big; bob; boy; boys; business; cattleman; cañon; crawford; dave; dave sanders; day; doble; door; dug; eyes; face; fellow; fire; friend; girl; good; gun; hand; hart; head; hills; horse; jackpot; job; joyce; keith; know; left; life; look; malapi; man; men; miller; mind; moment; money; oil; place; right; road; room; round; sanders; shorty; steelman; tell; thing; time; town; trail; trouble; voice; water; way; west; work; yore cache: 14574.txt plain text: 14574.txt item: #49 of 328 id: 14654 author: London, Jack title: A Daughter of the Snows date: None words: 88904 flesch: 90 summary: I should not have brought it up, for I have known good men funk in my time--buck fever, as it were. Other men, exulting secretly, piled their goods on two-wheeled go-carts and pulled out blithely enough, only to stall at the first spot where the great round boulders invaded the trail. keywords: arm; bank; baron; bella; bishop; blood; borg; brown; cabin; camp; canoe; colonel; come; corliss; country; courbertin; day; del; dogs; door; end; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; frona; good; half; hand; head; ice; indian; jacob; lay; life; little; look; love; lucile; man; matt; men; moment; night; open; place; river; saw; sun; things; thought; time; tommy; trail; vance; vincent; water; way; welse; white; woman; work; world; years cache: 14654.txt plain text: 14654.txt item: #50 of 328 id: 14844 author: Lynde, Francis title: The Taming of Red Butte Western date: None words: 86380 flesch: 81 summary: I suppose I ought to tell you to go straight to hell, Mr. Lidgerwood, put on my coat and walk out, said this most singular of all railway subordinates. You're Mr. Lidgerwood, I take it? said he, tilting the derby to the back of his head. keywords: angels; away; benson; brewster; building; butte; car; chair; dawson; day; desert; desk; door; engine; engineer; eyes; face; flemister; good; gridley; half; hallock; hand; head; howard; judson; left; lidgerwood; line; mac; man; mccloskey; men; miss; moment; new; office; passenger; place; platform; president; railroad; red; right; room; rufford; run; saw; service; silver; special; superintendent; thing; time; track; train; trainmaster; way; western; williams; wire; young cache: 14844.txt plain text: 14844.txt item: #51 of 328 id: 14902 author: Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton) title: Deadwood Dick, the Prince of the Road; or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills date: None words: 35608 flesch: 82 summary: The next instant there is a flash, a pistol report, a fall and a groan, the clattering of iron-shod hoofs; and then, ere anyone scarcely dreams of it, _Deadwood Dick is gone!_ CHAPTER III. ha! arrest Deadwood Dick if you can!] Layin' aside ther Injun subjeck, said Charity Joe, forking into the roasted venison, I move thet we take up a silent debate on ther pecooliarities uv a deer's hind legs; so heer goes! He cut out a huge slice with his bowie, sprinkled it over with salt, and began to devour it by very large mouthfuls. keywords: agent; alice; anita; black; cabin; day; deadwood; deadwood dick; dick; eyes; face; fearless; filmore; frank; general; gold; gulch; hand; harris; head; hills; know; man; men; moment; ned; night; nix; place; redburn; road; stage; ter; ther; time; valley; way; wild; young; youth cache: 14902.txt plain text: 14902.txt item: #52 of 328 id: 15148 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Six Feet Four date: None words: 73573 flesch: 88 summary: Other men were hurrying across the floor eager to be first to ask this or that demurely waiting maiden for the dance, but Thornton was well in the lead. His fame was that of a man who was absolutely fearless, and who carried the law where other men could not or would not carry it. keywords: away; bedloe; broderick; buck; buck thornton; clayton; close; comstock; day; door; eyes; face; girl; half; hand; hap; head; henry; horse; jimmie; kid; know; left; look; man; men; moment; night; pollard; room; saddle; saw; smith; table; thing; thornton; thought; time; town; voice; way; winifred cache: 15148.txt plain text: 15148.txt item: #53 of 328 id: 15159 author: Hough, Emerson title: Heart's Desire The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two Fortunate Lovers A Novel date: None words: 89599 flesch: 88 summary: Said the old man helt services every mornin' before breakfast. Said it meant a lot for him to throw away his future, but he was going to do it. keywords: barkley; chapter; constance; counsel; country; course; curly; dan anderson; day; desire; doc; door; ellsworth; eyes; face; folks; girl; goin'; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; horse; jim; kansas; law; left; life; look; ma'am; man; mcginnis; mckinney; men; new; osby; pinto; place; railroad; reckon; right; saw; sort; states; street; things; think; thought; time; tom; tom osby; town; uncle; valley; voice; wagon; way; woman; world; years cache: 15159.txt plain text: 15159.txt item: #54 of 328 id: 15274 author: Hill, Grace Livingston title: The Girl from Montana date: None words: 65172 flesch: 91 summary: Besides, you need cheering up, little girl. Poor little girl. keywords: brady; come; day; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; felt; girl; god; good; grandmother; heart; home; horse; kind; lady; life; lizzie; long; look; man; men; morning; mrs; new; night; people; place; school; things; thought; time; way; woman; words; world cache: 15274.txt plain text: 15274.txt item: #55 of 328 id: 15438 author: Gregory, Jackson title: The Bells of San Juan date: None words: 73722 flesch: 87 summary: They are San Juan men, are they not? Ignacio lifted his brows a shade disdainfully. She had come here to-day following in the footsteps of other men and a few women. keywords: brocky; cutter; day; door; elmer; end; engle; eyes; face; florrie; galloway; girl; good; half; hand; head; horse; ignacio; jim; jim galloway; juan; kid; las; left; life; look; man; men; moment; night; norton; page; patten; rickard; rod; room; san; saw; sheriff; struve; thought; time; virginia; voice cache: 15438.txt plain text: 15438.txt item: #56 of 328 id: 15502 author: Gregory, Jackson title: The Desert Valley date: None words: 84155 flesch: 89 summary: He had known men before now to make towns upon dry bare ground and in a mere handful of days; not even he, with his first-hand knowledge of such venturings, had ever seen the like of Sanchia's Town. Miss Helen Longstreet would have been swiftly all that was sweet and kind to him. keywords: alan; alan howard; barbee; carr; coming; courtot; day; dear; desert; door; end; eyes; face; father; girl; gold; good; half; hand; head; helen; horse; howard; jim; john; kish; left; longstreet; look; man; men; moment; monte; murray; new; night; run; sanchia; saw; taka; thing; thought; time; valley; voice; water; way; words; world cache: 15502.txt plain text: 15502.txt item: #57 of 328 id: 15542 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: A Daughter of the Dons: A Story of New Mexico Today date: None words: 65400 flesch: 92 summary: Young men worshiped him, the old admired, the poor blessed. It was not until his inattentive ears caught the name of Dick Gordon that he found interest in the conversation. keywords: american; corbett; davis; day; dick; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; gordon; hands; head; heart; house; juanita; life; love; man; manuel; men; mexican; mind; miss; new; pablo; pedro; people; pesquiera; right; room; sebastian; señor; señorita; sir; steve; thought; time; valdés; valencia; valley; want; way; woman; young cache: 15542.txt plain text: 15542.txt item: #58 of 328 id: 15580 author: Grey, Zane title: The Rustlers of Pecos County date: None words: 74830 flesch: 94 summary: Mr. Steele, I'm pleased to meet you, said Miss Sampson. When Steele and I were about to separate I remembered a party that was to be given by Miss Sampson, and I told him about it. keywords: blome; dark; day; diane; diane sampson; eyes; face; father; george; good; gun; hand; head; hoden; house; life; linrock; little; look; love; man; men; miss; moment; morton; night; place; ranger; room; russ; sally; sampson; snecker; steele; thought; time; town; want; way; wright cache: 15580.txt plain text: 15580.txt item: #59 of 328 id: 15583 author: Ingraham, Prentiss title: Beadle's Boy's Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Vol. I, No. 1. Adventures of Buffalo Bill from Boyhood to Manhood date: None words: 27854 flesch: 77 summary: It was upon one of these hunts that Billy won the name of Buffalo Billy, though afterward it was shortened by dropping the _y_ The words came from Buffalo Billy and he was pointing out toward the trail. keywords: = =; billy; boy; buffalo; buffalo billy; chapter; cody; day; fight; fort; herd; home; horse; indians; little; man; men; pony; red; revolver; shot; songs; stage; time; train; wild cache: 15583.txt plain text: 15583.txt item: #60 of 328 id: 15625 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Lookout Man date: None words: 75993 flesch: 87 summary: Any man could have told Jack things to dampen his enthusiasm for wintering on the top of King Solomon. She was afraid, so she went as fast as she could, consoling her fear with the shrewd thought that the storm would serve to hold back the sheriff and give Jack time to get away somewhere. keywords: away; brown; cabin; car; cave; corey; day; eyes; face; fer; fire; fred; girl; good; hair; half; hank; head; home; jack; jack corey; kate; lake; left; life; little; look; man; marion; men; mike; mind; mother; mountain; mrs; murphy; place; professor; right; rock; saw; singleton; snow; station; things; thought; time; trail; want; way; wind; world cache: 15625.txt plain text: 15625.txt item: #61 of 328 id: 1596 author: London, Jack title: Smoke Bellew date: None words: 43381 flesch: 93 summary: All about Smoke men tripped and fell, and several times he pitched forward himself, jarringly, on hands and knees. Somewhere in him was the strain of the hard, and he repeated over and over to himself that what other men could do, he could. keywords: bank; bellew; boat; creek; dawson; day; dogs; dollars; feet; fire; going; gold; good; half; hand; head; hour; ice; kit; lake; man; meat; men; miles; right; shorty; smoke; snow; sprague; system; time; trail; way; work cache: 1596.txt plain text: 1596.txt item: #62 of 328 id: 16174 author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley) title: The Gun-Brand date: None words: 84850 flesch: 86 summary: Old Elk had taken charge of the thirty Indians MacNair had despatched for provisions, and immediately upon learning from the lips of the Indian women of Chloe's disappearance he had left the loading of the sleds to the others while he worked out the signs in the snow. Other men, unknown to them, disguised it as innocent freight and delivered it to the scowmen. keywords: big; bob macnair; breed; chloe; chloe elliston; day; door; elliston; eyes; face; feet; fort; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; indians; kill; know; lake; lapierre; lefroy; lena; life; lips; long; macnair; man; men; miss; moment; mounted; night; north; pierre lapierre; ripley; river; room; school; snare; snow; thought; time; trail; vermilion; voice; way; whiskey; white; woman; words; work; yellow cache: 16174.txt plain text: 16174.txt item: #63 of 328 id: 16334 author: Knibbs, Henry Herbert title: Sundown Slim date: None words: 77719 flesch: 92 summary: But I ain't done nothin', whined Sundown, lapsing into his old attitude toward the law. Well, you got a fine chance to make a record this evening said Sundown, estimating with experienced eye the possibilities of Antelope and its environs. keywords: anita; antelope; billy; boss; bud; cattle; chance; concho; cook; corliss; cowboy; dog; eyes; face; fadeaway; fernando; goin'; good; guess; gun; hand; head; hole; home; horse; jack; jest; john; kind; look; loring; man; mebby; men; mexican; nothin'; ranch; right; road; room; saddle; sheep; sheriff; shoop; sundown; things; think; time; trail; water; wingle cache: 16334.txt plain text: 16334.txt item: #64 of 328 id: 16530 author: Knibbs, Henry Herbert title: The Ridin' Kid from Powder River date: None words: 123715 flesch: 91 summary: Young Pete, perched on a saddle much too large for him, hazed the tired horses with a professional Hi! Yah! Git in there, you doggone, onnery, three-legged pole-cat you! This here animal is sound, safe, and a child could ride him, asserted Young Pete as he led the languid and underfed pony to the wagon. keywords: andover; andy; annersley; bailey; bar; bill; blue; boca; boy; brent; brevoort; concho; door; doris; eyes; face; felt; flores; gary; git; glanced; goin'; good; gun; hand; head; horse; hoss; jest; jim; kind; know; left; let; like; malvey; man; mebby; men; mexican; money; montoya; old; pete; pete annersley; place; pony; ride; right; rode; room; round; saddle; sheriff; shot; smoke; spider; talk; thought; time; town; trail; way; white; young cache: 16530.txt plain text: 16530.txt item: #65 of 328 id: 16551 author: Belasco, David title: The Girl of the Golden West date: None words: 75825 flesch: 82 summary: Beg pardon, Miss; I know men ain't lowed up here nohow, humbly apologised that individual; but, but-- Vexed and flustered, the Girl turned upon him a trifle irritably with: Git! Git, I tell you! For a brief second, the Girl was too much taken back to find the adequate words with which to accept the stranger's offering. keywords: agent; answer; ashby; bar; boys; cabin; camp; door; eyes; face; girl; git; good; half; hand; head; johnson; life; lips; look; love; man; mind; moment; mountain; nick; night; nina; place; polka; ramerrez; rance; road; room; sheriff; silence; sonora; table; thought; time; trinidad; voice; want; way; woman; words cache: 16551.txt plain text: 16551.txt item: #66 of 328 id: 16589 author: White, Stewart Edward title: The Killer date: None words: 90803 flesch: 86 summary: Well then, old man, be a sport. I'm sorry about your governor, old man, he ventured; and then, after a long time: You're the richest man in the West. keywords: air; bill; brower; buck; california; captain; cattle; chapter; charley; country; course; day; days; distance; dog; door; ducks; dust; end; eyes; face; fact; feet; game; gates; general; girl; going; good; ground; gun; half; hand; head; hooper; horse; jim; john; lay; left; life; look; man; men; miles; mind; moment; new; open; outside; place; point; ranch; rest; right; road; rock; room; saddle; saw; shot; sort; sun; things; thought; time; uncle; want; water; way; white; windy; work; world cache: 16589.txt plain text: 16589.txt item: #67 of 328 id: 16597 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: Square Deal Sanderson date: None words: 68012 flesch: 87 summary: Mary led Sanderson into the sitting-room to a big easy-chair, shoved him into it, and stood behind him, running her fingers through his hair. The little man climbed down from the fence and moved close to him, talking earnestly, and at last Sanderson grinned down at him. keywords: basin; ben; bransford; brother; cattle; dale; deal; door; double; eyes; face; girl; hands; head; horse; letter; long; look; maison; man; mary; mary bransford; men; money; nyland; okar; owen; peggy; right; room; sanderson; silverthorn; streak; thought; time; want cache: 16597.txt plain text: 16597.txt item: #68 of 328 id: 16608 author: Mighels, Philip Verrill title: Bruvver Jim's Baby date: None words: 44998 flesch: 87 summary: My little boy! said the miner--my little boy! and taking both doll and little man in his arms he held them in passionate tenderness against his heart. You've got to be back before too late or your claim goes up, fer, Jim, you know as well as me that Parky's got the right of law! If only I could git that shrub, said Jim, as his friend departed, and back to the tossing little man he went, worried to the last degree. keywords: baby; blacksmith; bone; borealis; boy; boys; cabin; camp; christmas; day; doc; drawled; eyes; face; field; git; goin'; good; hand; hill; home; house; jim; keno; man; men; miner; miss; pup; right; skeezucks; snow; time; tintoretto; tree; way; webber cache: 16608.txt plain text: 16608.txt item: #69 of 328 id: 16629 author: Mighels, Philip Verrill title: The Furnace of Gold date: None words: 90623 flesch: 88 summary: CHAPTER XXXV THE MEETINGS OF TWO STRONG MEN Matt Barger, riding in the night, intent upon nothing save the chance to deal out his vengeance to Van Buren, had camped beside the river, at the turn where Van and Beth had skirted the bank to the regular fording below. Then--it must have been Searle who made the mistake--let Mr. Van Buren see it--see what I wrote--see---- What did he read you--read about Van--Mr. Van Buren--almost the last thing in the letter? Glen was surprised at her agitation. keywords: algy; barger; beth; bostwick; broncho; camp; car; claim; culver; dave; day; desert; dick; dollars; eyes; face; gettysburg; girl; glen; going; goldite; good; half; hand; heart; horse; horseman; kent; lawrence; letter; life; line; little; look; love; man; mccoppet; men; mind; moment; money; mrs; napoleon; new; place; pony; reservation; right; searle; suvy; thing; thought; time; van; van buren; water; way; work; world cache: 16629.txt plain text: 16629.txt item: #70 of 328 id: 16674 author: Kyne, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) title: The Pride of Palomar date: None words: 100556 flesch: 82 summary: Gonzales owns the Palomares rancho, but the Palomar rancho belonged to old Don Miguel Farrel. And now that Don Mike Farrel is dead, you hope to acquire Panchito, eh? I'll be broken-hearted if I cannot. keywords: bill; boy; business; california; car; carolina; conway; country; course; day; dear; dollars; don; don miguel; don mike; eyes; face; farrel; father; fellow; girl; good; gregorio; half; hand; head; home; horse; interest; japanese; john; john parker; kay; land; life; loustalot; love; man; men; miguel farrel; miss; mission; money; morning; mortgage; mother; mrs; okada; pablo; palomar; panchito; parker; people; power; race; ranch; right; room; saddle; san; señor; sheep; sir; smile; son; thought; time; toro; valley; white; years; young cache: 16674.txt plain text: 16674.txt item: #71 of 328 id: 16777 author: Morrow, Honoré title: The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert date: None words: 67040 flesch: 93 summary: And before that happens, if I know old Rhoda, we'll find them. At last Rhoda said coolly: Will you get fresh water while I bank in the fire? DeWitt's face relaxed. keywords: alchise; billy; camp; cartwell; day; desert; dewitt; eyes; face; girl; going; good; hand; head; indian; jack; john; katherine; kut; lay; left; life; long; look; love; man; molly; moment; night; porter; rhoda; thought; time; trail; voice; way; white; young cache: 16777.txt plain text: 16777.txt item: #72 of 328 id: 16861 author: Goodwin, C. C. (Charles Carroll) title: The Wedge of Gold date: None words: 69905 flesch: 85 summary: Said Browning: I say, Jim, did you mean that mustang story to go for an excuse for Miss Rose calling me 'Jack?' O, no! said Sedgwick, when she called you Jack, she was just a silly colt that could not discriminate. A steamer had sailed the previous day from Southampton for Port Natal, via the Suez Canal, and Sedgwick's plan was to join that ship at Port Said. keywords: away; browning; day; days; england; eyes; face; father; friend; gold; good; grace; half; hamlin; hand; heart; home; house; husband; jack; jenvie; jim; jordan; left; life; little; london; look; man; men; moment; money; morning; mrs; old; place; right; room; rose; sea; sedgwick; ship; stock; ter; thar; ther; thet; thought; time; war; wife; woman; work; world; years cache: 16861.txt plain text: 16861.txt item: #73 of 328 id: 16870 author: Hart, William S. title: Injun and Whitey to the Rescue date: None words: 59107 flesch: 88 summary: Thus, if Bill lectured Whitey, the boy could throw Bill's own ignorance of book-learning in his face. At first Whitey thought that this was a phase of the Indian's well-known desire for vengeance, but Injun didn't seem to be vindictive in the matter. keywords: 'bout; big; bill; bill jordan; boys; buck; bull; bunk; circle; course; day; dog; dorgan; eyes; face; father; good; head; house; injun; john; jordan; knew; little; look; man; mart; men; mind; monty; night; place; ranch; sherwood; steele; story; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; walt; water; way; west; whitey cache: 16870.txt plain text: 16870.txt item: #74 of 328 id: 16871 author: Bower, B. M. title: Skyrider date: None words: 73958 flesch: 90 summary: If Johnny Jewel had the nerve to think that she wanted to see _him_-- You must love the sun, Johnny observed apathetically. Johnny was reminding her of the very beginning of their serial quarrel, when he had overheard her telling a girl guest at the ranch that Johnny Jewel was only one of my father's hired men. keywords: airplane; bill; bland; boys; brother; bud; camp; come; course; dad; day; eyes; face; fly; flying; good; halliday; hand; head; home; horses; jake; johnny; johnny jewel; know; left; look; man; mary v; place; ranch; range; ride; riding; right; rolling; sinkhole; sudden; tex; thing; thought; time; tomaso; want; way; work; yuh cache: 16871.txt plain text: 16871.txt item: #75 of 328 id: 16889 author: Morrow, Honoré title: The Enchanted Canyon date: None words: 113615 flesch: 90 summary: Mike, let me introduce Mr. Enoch Huntingdon of New York City. It's Enoch Huntingdon! Yes, Frank, it's he, replied Enoch. keywords: abbott; agnew; allen; boss; boy; brown; camp; canyon; che; curly; day; desert; diana; enoch; eyes; face; fire; forrester; fowler; frank; going; good; half; hands; harden; head; huntingdon; jonas; judge; know; left; life; little; long; look; mack; man; men; milton; miss; moment; morning; night; nodded; nucky; president; river; room; rose; seaton; secretary; thought; time; trail; trip; voice; water; way; woman; work; years cache: 16889.txt plain text: 16889.txt item: #76 of 328 id: 16976 author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley) title: The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country date: None words: 83030 flesch: 90 summary: You take her an' the pack horse an' hit down the river an' cut up through old man Lee's horse ranch onto the bench. We got to go kind of easy for a few miles 'cause I shouldn't wonder if old man Johnson had got a gang out interrin' defunck bovines. keywords: a'm; alice; bat; be'n; black; bottle; breed; close; coulee; cowboy; cowpuncher; creek; damn; dat; door; endicott; eyes; face; feet; fer; girl; git; goin'; good; ground; half; hand; head; hell; horse; kind; know; lak; lips; long; look; man; mebbe; moment; outfit; pilgrim; place; purdy; ride; right; river; rock; rode; rope; run; saddle; tell; texan; thought; time; town; trail; want; water; way; white; win cache: 16976.txt plain text: 16976.txt item: #77 of 328 id: 17043 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: The Sheriff's Son date: None words: 68901 flesch: 94 summary: You see, they're all known men. Easy! Say, do you know what I saw that young man put over to-day at the depot? I'll know when you've told me, suggested Dingwell. keywords: away; beaudry; beulah; big; business; cattleman; charlton; dan; dave; day; dingwell; eyes; face; father; fox; girl; going; good; gun; hal; hand; head; heart; help; hills; horse; left; life; look; man; meldrum; men; mind; miss; park; ranch; right; roy; rutherford; saddle; son; street; thing; tighe; time; voice; way; young cache: 17043.txt plain text: 17043.txt item: #78 of 328 id: 17066 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story date: None words: 70151 flesch: 94 summary: From James Cunningham Kirby had got the key of his uncle's apartment. Kirby Lane, who was leaning against the fence chatting with a friend, turned round and took notice. keywords: apartment; cattleman; cole; cousin; cunningham; day; door; escape; esther; evidence; eyes; face; fire; friend; good; hand; harriman; head; hull; jack; james; james cunningham; kirby; lane; left; look; man; mind; miss; olson; police; right; room; rose; story; tell; thing; time; uncle; uncle james; way; wild; woman cache: 17066.txt plain text: 17066.txt item: #79 of 328 id: 17205 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: The Big-Town Round-Up date: None words: 76566 flesch: 93 summary: Clay had known men in the West, wolf-hearted killers steeped in a horrible lust for revenge, who never forgot or forgave an injury--until their enemy had paid the price in full. Don't you reckon he might, Clay? Clay Lindsay laughed. keywords: annie; arizona; beatrice; big; bromfield; business; car; clarendon; clay; clay lindsay; come; course; day; door; durand; eyes; face; fellow; friend; girl; good; hand; head; home; house; jerry; johnnie; kitty; life; lindsay; little; long; look; man; men; mind; miss; moment; new; place; police; right; room; story; street; suit; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; trouble; voice; way; whitford; woman; yore; york cache: 17205.txt plain text: 17205.txt item: #80 of 328 id: 17418 author: Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs. title: The Black Pearl date: None words: 87553 flesch: 85 summary: As far as I can make out, you're only laying up trouble for yourself, and also--here there rang a peculiarly menacing note through his soft, southern voice--if I'm correct, you're accusing Miss Pearl Gallito of being a suspicious character, and I'm assuring you now, boys, that either in the desert or here in the mountains that that's the sort of thing you've got to answer for. Mrs. Gallito, pale under her paint, was nervously biting her handkerchief and glancing from one man to the other, while the Pearl leaned back in her chair as lazily, languidly, scornfully indifferent as ever. keywords: 'em; arms; bob; cabin; dance; day; desert; eyes; face; father; flick; gallito; good; guess; hand; hanson; harry; head; heart; hughie; josé; kind; left; life; look; love; man; matter; mind; moment; mountains; mrs; new; night; nitschkan; old; pearl; room; rose; saw; seagreave; smile; snow; things; thomas; thought; time; voice; way; white; woman; world cache: 17418.txt plain text: 17418.txt item: #81 of 328 id: 17477 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: The Trail Horde date: None words: 86944 flesch: 85 summary: As Ruth watched, her gaze taking in the wreck of the room--and Singleton picking up the pistol--she saw Lawler strike Warden--a full sweeping blow that sent forth a sodden deadening sound as it landed. He had taken only several steps when a voice greeted him, coming from the interior of the cabin--a man's voice, snarling, venomous: You come another step, Kane Lawler, an' I'll bore you! Lawler halted, facing the door. keywords: antrim; blackburn; cabin; cattle; circle; cold; day; della; door; eyes; face; gary; gary warden; hamlin; hand; head; herd; horse; kane; lawler; left; light; lips; little; man; men; office; open; red; room; ruth; shorty; singleton; slade; standing; state; tell; time; town; trail; voice; warden; watching; wharton; willets; woman cache: 17477.txt plain text: 17477.txt item: #82 of 328 id: 17598 author: Parrish, Randall title: Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West date: None words: 85936 flesch: 82 summary: Once--it must have been after three o'clock--other men seemed suddenly to mingle among those perspiring surface workers and the unmistakable neigh of a horse came faintly from out the blackness of a distant thicket. But thar ain't no sense in yer fightin' me, Stutter; I bet yer git practice 'nough arter awhile, 'less them thar black eyes o' hern be mighty deceivin'. keywords: believe; beth; black; brown; cheeks; come; dark; dat; door; eet; eyes; face; farnham; feet; fer; girl; god; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hicks; instant; know; life; lips; little; love; man; mercedes; miss; moment; norvell; reckon; right; rock; seã±or; stage; stutter; tell; ter; thar; ther; thet; thought; time; tink; true; vas; voice; way; white; winston; woman; words; yer; yere cache: 17598.txt plain text: 17598.txt item: #83 of 328 id: 17614 author: Parrish, Randall title: Bob Hampton of Placer date: None words: 90703 flesch: 79 summary: Into Hampton's eyes there leaped a light upon which other men had looked before they died,--the strange mad gleam one sometimes sees in fighting animals, or amid the fierce charges of war. Darn if I kin see anythin', old man, but I 'll scout 'round thar a bit, jest ter ease yer mind, an' see what I kin skeer up. keywords: bob; brant; custer; dark; door; doubt; eyes; face; feet; fellow; gillis; girl; good; hair; half; hampton; hand; head; heart; herndon; horse; know; left; lieutenant; life; lips; look; man; mcneil; men; mind; miss; moffat; moment; mrs; murphy; naida; officer; open; red; right; room; slavin; spencer; ter; thet; think; thought; time; voice; way; woman; words; wynkoop; years cache: 17614.txt plain text: 17614.txt item: #84 of 328 id: 17647 author: Parrish, Randall title: The Strange Case of Cavendish date: None words: 87106 flesch: 87 summary: But there are good men in this camp, law abiding men, interrupted the miner. Then we'll put a bunch of good men in here, and fight it out, if those lads get ugly. keywords: away; beaton; brennan; cavendish; dark; dead; donovan; door; enright; eyes; face; feet; fellow; fer; floor; frederick; girl; good; hand; haskell; head; jim; john; lacy; left; man; marshal; men; mendez; mind; miss; money; moore; new; night; open; rock; room; rue; señor; ter; thought; time; timmons; voice; way; westcott; woman; yer; york cache: 17647.txt plain text: 17647.txt item: #85 of 328 id: 17844 author: Lillibridge, Will title: Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman date: None words: 90795 flesch: 86 summary: you'd be a howling success there, old man! It remained for those who came in actual contact with him to learn the force beneath the forbidding exterior,--the relentless bull-dog energy that had made him dictator of the great ranch, and kept subordinate the restless, roving, dissolute men-of-fortune he employed,--the deliberate and impartial judgment which had made his word as near law as it was possible for any mandate to be among the motley inhabitants within a radius of fifty miles. keywords: answer; baker; ben; ben blair; big; bit; blair; blue; boy; brown; companion; day; dead; door; eyes; face; feet; felt; figure; florence; girl; good; grannis; half; hand; head; home; house; human; left; life; look; looking; love; mamma; man; minute; moment; morning; mother; motion; night; place; prairie; question; ranch; rankin; reason; room; scotty; sidwell; silence; story; thing; thought; time; tom; voice; want; way; white; woman; word; work cache: 17844.txt plain text: 17844.txt item: #86 of 328 id: 17981 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Under Handicap A Novel date: None words: 91364 flesch: 88 summary: Certainly his intellect had been trained, in a fashion, by great men, by learned university professors. And the man who fights here successfully a winning fight, not stopping to ask at what odds, must be endowed with a great strength, a rugged physical and moral constitution, self-reliance, a true, deep insight into the natures of other men. keywords: argyl; big; brayley; conniston; crawford; dam; day; days; desert; eyes; face; father; feet; garton; going; greek conniston; half; hand; hapgood; head; horse; lark; left; look; man; men; miles; miss; moment; new; pete; right; roger; room; saw; swinnerton; table; thing; thought; time; tommy; truxton; valley; voice; want; water; way; work cache: 17981.txt plain text: 17981.txt item: #87 of 328 id: 18150 author: Sinclair, Bertrand W. title: The Hidden Places date: None words: 78002 flesch: 85 summary: Archie Lawanne came back downstream with two grizzly pelts, and Hollister met Bland for the first time. The woman who had been standing there staring up the hillside, with the sun playing hide and seek in her yellow hair, was Myra Hollister, his wife. keywords: bland; cabin; cedar; chance; day; days; deep; doris; eyes; face; feel; feeling; fire; going; good; great; half; hand; head; hollister; house; lawanne; lewis; life; little; look; love; man; matter; men; mills; mind; money; myra; new; people; place; river; saw; sight; snow; sort; things; thought; timber; time; toba; valley; want; war; way; wife; woman; work; world cache: 18150.txt plain text: 18150.txt item: #88 of 328 id: 18309 author: Kelly, Florence Finch title: Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories date: None words: 59091 flesch: 81 summary: He killed his man in those days, just as lots of other good men did, but it was in self-defence; and everybody was glad that the town was rid of the man he dropped, and so nothing was said about it. Liberate is a boss knife-thrower, and I think likely he 's the one that did the business for old man Paxton. keywords: barbara; coolidge; day; days; door; elizabeth; emerson; eyes; face; father; feet; good; hand; head; heart; home; house; indian; johnson; kid; left; life; long; look; love; man; men; mrs; new; nick; people; right; thing; thought; time; town; train; tuttle; voice; way; went; white; wife; wing; woman; years cache: 18309.txt plain text: 18309.txt item: #89 of 328 id: 18352 author: Curtis, Charles A. (Charles Albert) title: Captured by the Navajos date: None words: 53763 flesch: 80 summary: Approaching her, I asked: Why are you doing that, Miss Brenda? I promised Mr. Frank I would do it until he and Mr. Henry return, was her answer. Yes, sir. Why did you not tell me? Mr. Frank said I must not before we arrived here. keywords: animals; arnold; away; boys; brenda; camp; captain; clary; corporal; day; direction; distance; feet; fire; fort; frank; good; half; head; henry; horses; indians; left; manuel; march; men; miles; navajos; party; place; ponies; right; river; road; sergeant; sir; soldiers; time; trail; valley; vic; water; way cache: 18352.txt plain text: 18352.txt item: #90 of 328 id: 18563 author: Sinclair, Bertrand W. title: Raw Gold: A Novel date: None words: 57461 flesch: 86 summary: (What a power for thwarting the plans of men little things sometimes exercise!) Their cattle and range on the Canadian had a gold-mine beat to death for money-making; old men like them don't jump two thousand miles from home without mighty strong reasons. keywords: bevans; bunch; camp; chance; close; country; day; eyes; face; fire; going; gold; good; goodell; ground; half; hand; head; hicks; horses; know; lay; left; lessard; long; look; lyn; macrae; man; men; money; old; piegan; place; right; river; stone; things; think; thought; time; trail; walsh; way cache: 18563.txt plain text: 18563.txt item: #91 of 328 id: 18856 author: Evarts, Hal G. (Hal George) title: The Settling of the Sage date: None words: 70400 flesch: 90 summary: Other men have loved you the first day. XII The wild riders of the Breaks no longer mingled with other men with the same freedom as of old. keywords: bar; bar girl; bar men; big; billie; brand; brill; carp; country; cows; day; deane; door; end; face; girl; going; good; half; hand; harris; head; horse; left; man; men; miles; morrow; range; rest; right; round; run; saddle; sheriff; slade; start; time; valley; waddles; wagon; way; work; years cache: 18856.txt plain text: 18856.txt item: #92 of 328 id: 18916 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Daughter of the Sun A Tale of Adventure date: None words: 80519 flesch: 90 summary: And yet, Señor Jim Kendric, there come times even in a man's life when the yes or no is spoken for him. There was much of love in the heart of Headlong Jim Kendric, but it was a love which had never poured itself through the common channels, never identified itself with those two passions which sway most men: he had never known love for a woman and in him there was no money-greed. keywords: away; barlow; betty; big; bruce; dark; day; door; escobar; eyes; face; feet; girl; half; hand; head; heart; high; house; jim kendric; kendric; know; left; let; look; man; men; mind; moment; night; open; place; play; rifle; rios; room; ruiz; saw; set; señor; table; thing; thought; time; treasure; voice; water; way; white; woman; words; zoraida cache: 18916.txt plain text: 18916.txt item: #93 of 328 id: 18926 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Judith of Blue Lake Ranch date: None words: 81289 flesch: 90 summary: Her eyes had laughed at him, they had teased, they had told him that Judith herself wasn't wasting a single thought upon Mr. Bud Lee, but that she had noticed his obvious interest in Miss Langworthy. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch I BUD LEE WANTS TO KNOW Bud Lee, horse foreman of the Blue Lake Ranch, sat upon the gate of the home corral, builded a cigarette with slow brown fingers, and stared across the broken fields of the upper valley to the rosy glow above the pine-timbered ridge where the sun was coming up. keywords: bayne; big; blue; bud lee; cabin; carson; day; door; end; eyes; face; feet; fool; girl; going; good; hampton; hand; head; heart; horse; judith; know; lake; lee; left; look; man; marcia; men; miss; mrs; open; quinnion; ranch; right; room; ruth; sanford; thing; thought; time; trevors; tripp; voice; way; woman; work cache: 18926.txt plain text: 18926.txt item: #94 of 328 id: 18933 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Man to Man date: None words: 78063 flesch: 90 summary: I believe, he said as much to himself as to her, that I'll have to have a word with old man Packard. If he once sat into the game he'd want to stick for a showdown; if he started out now bucking old man Packard, he would perhaps wind up in the scrap-heap. keywords: barbee; big; bill; blenham; car; creek; day; door; eyes; face; feet; fire; girl; gone; good; grandfather; guy; half; hand; head; horse; left; little; look; man; man packard; men; moment; number; packard; place; ranch; red; right; road; royce; steve; steve packard; temple; terry; terry temple; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; woods cache: 18933.txt plain text: 18933.txt item: #95 of 328 id: 18950 author: Gregory, Jackson title: The Short Cut date: None words: 93247 flesch: 88 summary: Her casual mention of other men, Garth, and Sledge Hume, had displeased him so vaguely that he had not fully understood or cared why. He felt dimly that he ought to be doing something like other men. keywords: bar; bill; body; conway; dart; day; door; eyes; face; father; feet; garth; girl; good; half; hands; head; helga; horse; hume; left; leland; life; little; look; love; mackelvey; man; martin; men; moment; mother; red; right; room; saw; saxon; shandon; sledge; snow; thing; time; voice; wanda; want; wayne; wayne shandon; white; woman; work; world cache: 18950.txt plain text: 18950.txt item: #96 of 328 id: 18964 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Wolf Breed date: None words: 66083 flesch: 90 summary: There's your money, old man, he said shortly. He doesn't belong to you, old man. keywords: away; bellaire; david drennen; day; door; drennen; ernestine; eyes; face; garcia; george; girl; gold; half; hand; head; kootanie; lemarc; life; lips; look; love; madden; man; marquette; max; men; moment; new; night; room; sefton; settlement; sothern; thing; thought; time; trail; voice; way; woman; words; ygerne cache: 18964.txt plain text: 18964.txt item: #97 of 328 id: 19012 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: The Two-Gun Man date: None words: 58105 flesch: 88 summary: Immediately other men had followed. Other men had allowed various expressions to creep into their faces. keywords: ben; boss; cabin; diamond; door; eyes; face; ferguson; flat; goin'; hand; head; leviatt; lips; ma'am; man; men; pony; radford; range; right; rope; saddle; stafford; story; stray; things; thought; time; voice cache: 19012.txt plain text: 19012.txt item: #98 of 328 id: 19023 author: King, Charles title: A Daughter of the Sioux: A Tale of the Indian frontier date: None words: 77522 flesch: 75 summary: Then, stopping at the lodge of Stabbers's uncle, old Spotted Horse, where that superannuated but still sagacious chief was squatted on his blanket and ostentatiously puffing a long Indian pipe, Webb demanded to know what young men remained in the village. Here's a matter of near a thousand dollars that young man has got to answer for the moment he is well enough to stir. keywords: black; blake; captain; chapter; chief; coming; commander; dade; day; days; door; dozen; eyes; face; field; flint; flower; fort; frayne; general; girl; guard; half; hand; hay; head; horse; indian; kennedy; left; line; long; major; man; men; miles; miss; moment; morning; mrs; nanette; night; officer; open; post; prairie; ray; red; room; saddle; sergeant; sioux; sir; soldier; stabber; thought; time; trader; troop; warriors; way; webb; woman; young cache: 19023.txt plain text: 19023.txt item: #99 of 328 id: 19026 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: The Boss of the Lazy Y date: None words: 70724 flesch: 86 summary: Excuse me, said Calumet with a short laugh, though his eyes shone with a sudden hardness; I thought it was a-- You're Calumet Marston, I reckon, interrupted the bearded man. [Frontispiece: Calumet remained unshaken. keywords: betty; black; bob; calumet; dade; door; eyes; face; father; good; hand; head; horse; idol; instant; kitchen; lazy; left; lips; little; look; malcolm; man; ranchhouse; right; room; saddle; saw; smile; stood; table; taggart; thought; time; voice; way cache: 19026.txt plain text: 19026.txt item: #100 of 328 id: 19055 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Steve Yeager date: None words: 61271 flesch: 92 summary: I STEVE MAKES A MISTAKE Steve Yeager held his bronco to a Spanish trot. Wherefore also Steve Yeager, who did not know Darwin from a carburetor, had by process of evolution been squeezed out of the occupation he had followed all of his twenty-three years since he could hang on to a saddle-horn. keywords: american; boy; captain; come; cowpuncher; culvera; day; eyes; face; farrar; friends; general; girl; good; half; hand; harrison; head; heart; holcomb; horse; left; life; man; men; mexican; mind; moment; pasquale; prizefighter; ramon; range; rider; right; room; ruth; seã±or; shot; steve; threewit; time; voice; way; yeager; young cache: 19055.txt plain text: 19055.txt item: #101 of 328 id: 19120 author: Carson, James, Captain title: The Saddle Boys of the Rockies; Or, Lost on Thunder Mountain date: None words: 46139 flesch: 87 summary: Both Frank and Bob jumped from their saddles, for the little affair was taking place in the courtyard of an inn that fronted on the street. I believe you're just about right, Bob, said Frank; and it agrees with my own opinion exactly. keywords: bob; boy; boys; chum; come; fellow; frank; going; good; hand; hank; horses; joe; kentucky; look; mountain; nick; old; peg; place; ranch; right; saddle; tell; thing; thunder; time; way cache: 19120.txt plain text: 19120.txt item: #102 of 328 id: 19129 author: Hankins, Arthur Preston title: The She Boss: A Western Story date: None words: 77518 flesch: 91 summary: With you? Said Hiram, slowly drinking in dread suspicion. Jerkline Jo laughed again at the end of this seemingly nonsensical harangue, and fixed her dark eyes on Hiram Hooker. keywords: 'em; camp; cat; course; day; days; demarest; desert; dollars; door; drummond; eyes; face; filer; freight; girl; good; guess; half; hand; hank; head; heine; hiram; hiram hooker; jerkline jo; julia; know; left; life; look; lucy; man; men; money; new; outfit; paper; place; ragtown; right; road; saw; skinners; street; teams; thought; time; trip; tweet; uncle; wagon; want; water; way; work cache: 19129.txt plain text: 19129.txt item: #103 of 328 id: 19166 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Quirt date: None words: 61591 flesch: 89 summary: Brit's careful about them things--little men most always are. CHAPTER TWO THE ENCHANTMENT OF LONG DISTANCE Lorraine Hunter always maintained that she was a Western girl. keywords: brit; country; dad; day; doctor; eyes; face; father; frank; girl; good; hand; hawkins; head; horse; hunter; left; little; lone; look; lorraine; man; men; place; quirt; ranch; ride; right; road; saddle; sawtooth; senator; swan; thought; thurman; time; trail; warfield; way; yuh cache: 19166.txt plain text: 19166.txt item: #104 of 328 id: 19318 author: Hope, Laura Lee title: The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle; Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run date: None words: 44720 flesch: 87 summary: Well, I didn't do it, said Allen plaintively, adding quickly as Betty's face clouded: I beg your pardon, little girl, I didn't mean to be flippant. Good work, Mollie, old girl, cried Betty's voice encouragingly, and Mollie, wiping a tell-tale drop from the corner of her nose, answered in a voice that held never a quiver: I couldn't fail you, Little Captain. keywords: allen; amy; andy; betty; day; eyes; find; girls; gold; good; grace; head; horses; levine; look; man; meggy; mollie; mother; mrs; nelson; ranch; rawlinson; right; run; think; thought; time; voice; way cache: 19318.txt plain text: 19318.txt item: #105 of 328 id: 19330 author: King, Charles title: An Apache Princess: A Tale of the Indian Frontier date: None words: 83783 flesch: 77 summary: To do her justice, it should be said that Miss Wren had striven valiantly against the impulse,--had indeed mastered it for several hours,--but the sight of the vivid blush, the eager joy in the sweet young face when Blakely's new striker handed in a note addressed to Miss Angela Wren, proved far too potent a factor in the undoing of that magnanimous resolve. All Sandy knew that Punch had no other rider than pretty Angela Wren. keywords: angela; apache; arnold; blakely; byrne; captain; captain wren; chapter; colonel; coming; commander; cutler; day; days; door; downs; elise; eyes; face; father; girl; good; graham; guard; half; hand; heard; indian; janet; left; lieutenant; major; man; men; miss; moment; mrs; mullins; natzie; night; officer; plume; post; quarters; room; sanders; sandy; sergeant; sir; soldier; thought; time; troop; voice; way; white; wife; woman; wren; young cache: 19330.txt plain text: 19330.txt item: #106 of 328 id: 19371 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Forfeit date: None words: 101345 flesch: 91 summary: I guess there's men folks who'd have you think that way, but if I know anything they'd hate to be without a mirror when they're fixing themselves for a party where there's to be some nice looking women, and where they're to be something better than just a 'stray' blown in. Say, Bud, I'm a pretty cold sort of man. keywords: bud; cattle; daddy; day; deep; dollars; dug; elvine; eyes; face; father; feel; feller; felt; gaze; girl; going; good; guess; hand; head; heart; hills; home; horse; jeff; jest; knew; lay; left; life; love; man; mind; moment; need; open; place; right; saddle; set; smile; sort; tell; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 19371.txt plain text: 19371.txt item: #107 of 328 id: 19388 author: Hough, Emerson title: The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West date: None words: 77857 flesch: 95 summary: A vast and noble flood carried happy Sim Gage out to the ocean at the end of all, to the rest and the absorption and the peace. Well, commented Sim Gage after a time, taking a meditative but wholly unagitated tobacco shot at the cook stove, I ain't saying she is and I ain't saying she ain't. keywords: annie; barnes; blind; car; coming; dam; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; fer; gage; gardner; girl; good; half; hand; home; house; left; life; look; ma'am; man; mary; mary gage; men; new; place; right; saw; sim; sim gage; sort; things; time; valley; voice; want; warren; way; wid; woman; work; world; yes cache: 19388.txt plain text: 19388.txt item: #108 of 328 id: 19472 author: Lynde, Francis title: Branded date: None words: 80377 flesch: 81 summary: They were both old men, and in the nature of things there was always a possibility that death might forestall me. Why, Jimmie, old man! he exclaimed in instant concern; and then he took the half-burned cigar from between my fingers and threw it away, at the same time sending the floor boy scurrying after a drink for me. keywords: agatha; bank; barrett; business; car; chance; day; door; end; everton; eyes; face; father; fellow; find; geddis; gifford; glendale; going; good; half; hand; head; hold; home; house; jimmie; lawrenceburg; let; life; making; man; moment; money; new; night; office; ore; pay; place; polly; prison; reason; room; story; talk; thing; thought; time; town; train; want; way; weyburn; whitredge; woman; work; world; years cache: 19472.txt plain text: 19472.txt item: #109 of 328 id: 19527 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: The Yukon Trail: A Tale of the North date: None words: 70210 flesch: 91 summary: If I let my work be cluttered up by all the little rules made by little men for other little ones, my plans would come to a standstill. Where she had been brought up young men did not offer courtesies of this sort so informally. keywords: away; big; boat; camp; come; course; day; diane; elliot; eyes; face; feet; girl; going; good; gordon; gordon elliot; hand; head; heart; holt; kusiak; left; life; little; look; macdonald; man; men; mind; miner; miss; mrs; o'neill; peter; right; room; selfridge; sheba; snow; strong; sure; talk; tell; thing; thought; time; trail; wally; way; woman cache: 19527.txt plain text: 19527.txt item: #110 of 328 id: 19763 author: Knibbs, Henry Herbert title: Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail date: None words: 74122 flesch: 93 summary: Louise saw Collie leap to the ground and come running back. And the tramp, Overland Red, ragged, unkempt, jocular, rose from his knees beside a tiny blaze. keywords: away; billy; boy; boyar; brand; cañon; collie; colt; come; course; day; desert; eyes; face; feet; fire; girl; goin'; gold; good; gun; hand; head; horse; kind; look; louise; man; marshall; moonstone; new; old; overland; overland red; pony; range; red; ride; right; road; rose; round; saddle; saunders; says; stone; tenlow; things; time; town; trail; tramp; water; williams; winthrop; yuma cache: 19763.txt plain text: 19763.txt item: #111 of 328 id: 19764 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Moccasin Ranch: A Story of Dakota date: None words: 18502 flesch: 92 summary: Bailey contrived to look very stern and very busy whenever she came in, but she was wise in ways of men, and treated him as if he were a good comrade, and so gradually he came to talk to her almost as freely as with Blanche Burke. Blanche Burke rose to a beautiful and busy day. keywords: bailey; blanche; burke; day; door; eyes; face; good; jim; land; mrs; plain; rivers; rose; store; team; time; voice; wind; woman cache: 19764.txt plain text: 19764.txt item: #112 of 328 id: 1987 author: Adams, Andy title: The Outlet date: None words: 96019 flesch: 75 summary: My position requires that I should have a fair knowledge of beef cattle, and the perquisites of my office in a post of Buford's class enable me to employ the best practical men available to perfect the service. Five years ago this summer I came with beef cattle from Uvalde County, that State, to this post, and after the delivery, accepted a situation under the quartermaster here in locating and holding the government's beeves. keywords: beef; beeves; bob; boys; brother; buford; camp; cattle; country; creek; crossing; dave; day; days; dodge; don; employer; evening; flood; foreman; forrest; fort; good; half; hand; herd; horses; hour; left; like; little; look; lovell; man; men; miles; morning; night; north; outfit; post; quarantine; ranch; remuda; return; river; saddle; south; sponsilier; texas; time; tolleston; town; trail; wagon; water; way; work; year cache: 1987.txt plain text: 1987.txt item: #113 of 328 id: 19928 author: King, Charles title: Sunset Pass; or, Running the Gauntlet Through Apache Land date: None words: 30632 flesch: 84 summary: He could not bear the idea of spending something like a thousand dollars in taking himself, little Ned and Nellie, and their devoted old nurse, Irish Kate, by that long and expensive route. Pike moved out to the edge of the timber, where he could hear the last of it--a big anxiety welling up in his heart and a world of responsibility with it; but he clutched his carbine the more firmly and gave a backward glance, his face softening as his eyes fell upon the wagon where little Ned and Nell lay sleeping, and darkening with menace and suspicion as he took one swift look at Manuelito, cowering there over the fire. keywords: apaches; captain; cave; coming; eyes; fire; gwynne; half; indians; jim; kate; manuelito; mules; ned; pass; pike; right; road; rock; time; trail; wagon; watch; way cache: 19928.txt plain text: 19928.txt item: #114 of 328 id: 19951 author: Taylor, Edward C. title: Ted Strong in Montana Or, With Lariat and Spur date: None words: 93864 flesch: 90 summary: This gave Ted time to creep nearer. In a few minutes Major Caruthers rode up to the house, and Ted brought Farnsworth forward. keywords: away; barrows; ben; boys; bud; camp; carl; cattle; chapter; cow; eyes; face; farnsworth; feet; fire; girl; good; hand; head; herd; house; indian; kit; know; left; long; look; major; man; men; mowbray; night; pony; ranch; room; running; saddle; shot; snow; stella; strong; ted; ter; ther; thing; thought; time; tree; white; wolf; wolves; woofer; yer; young cache: 19951.txt plain text: 19951.txt item: #115 of 328 id: 20044 author: Brand, Max title: Riders of the Silences date: None words: 71483 flesch: 93 summary: But how could they tell from the passing of those ringing hoofs that Pierre, the novice, was dead, and Red Pierre was born? Pierre, now Red Pierre, indeed, rose and ran to the fallen man, and, looking at the bulk of the giant, he wondered with a cold heart. keywords: black; boone; boy; cold; cross; dick; door; eyes; face; father; fire; girl; gun; hand; head; heart; horse; jack; left; life; look; man; mary; mcgurk; men; moment; night; pierre; place; red; room; saw; thought; time; voice; way; white; wilbur; wind cache: 20044.txt plain text: 20044.txt item: #116 of 328 id: 20076 author: Coolidge, Dane title: Rimrock Jones date: None words: 77232 flesch: 89 summary: I think, she said at last, the most pitiable spectacle in the world is you, Mr. Rimrock Jones. Frontispiece_ Rimrock Jones left town with four burro-loads of powder, some provisions and a cargo of tools That was Rimrock's notice, but now it was void for the hour was long after twelve RIM ROCK JONES CHAPTER I. keywords: away; bray; buckbee; claim; come; company; day; dollars; door; eyes; fortune; going; good; gunsight; hand; hardesty; head; jepson; jones; juan; know; look; man; mary; mcbain; men; money; mrs; new; right; rimrock; rimrock jones; stock; stoddard; street; tecolote; thought; time; town; way; woman cache: 20076.txt plain text: 20076.txt item: #117 of 328 id: 20082 author: King, Charles title: Warrior Gap: A Story of the Sioux Outbreak of '68. date: None words: 61049 flesch: 78 summary: Escorts reported that they sometimes marched all day long side by side with hunting bands of Sioux, a mile away; and often little parties, squaws and boys and young men, would ride confidently over and beg for sugar, coffee, hardtack--anything, and ride off with their plunder in the best of spirits and with all apparent good feeling. I think there's a surprise in store for you, young man, was her mental addition, as she tripped within doors. keywords: away; burleigh; captain; cavalry; cloud; colonel; coming; day; days; dean; dozen; emory; eyes; face; folsom; fort; frayne; gap; gate; girls; hal; hand; horses; indians; jessie; left; lieutenant; major; man; marshall; men; moment; mrs; night; officer; pappoose; party; post; quartermaster; ranch; red; saw; sergeant; sioux; sir; time; troop cache: 20082.txt plain text: 20082.txt item: #118 of 328 id: 20101 author: King, Charles title: Under Fire date: None words: 145961 flesch: 75 summary: A gentle woman was Mrs. Davies, but a distressingly helpless and dependent one, and it was an old saying in Urbana that Davies had married poor Salome Percy because if he didn't nobody would; not because he stood in need of her, but because she was much in need of him. Almira's father was well off, said Mrs. Davies. keywords: adjutant; agency; agent; almira; army; away; big; boynton; brannan; captain; captain cranston; captain devers; cavalry; chaplain; colonel; coming; command; commander; cranston; darling; davies; day; days; devers; dog; door; duty; eyes; face; father; field; flight; friends; general; going; good; guard; half; hand; head; home; horse; indian; left; leonard; lieutenant; line; little; loomis; major; man; men; miles; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; officer; old; orders; party; people; point; post; quarters; red; room; sanders; saw; scott; sergeant; sir; soldier; tell; thing; thought; time; troop; truman; valley; village; white; wife; willett; years cache: 20101.txt plain text: 20101.txt item: #119 of 328 id: 20223 author: Ellis, Edward Sylvester title: Two Boys in Wyoming: A Tale of Adventure (Northwest Series, No. 3) date: None words: 71992 flesch: 81 summary: It takes a good deal to startle an American Indian, but if there ever was a frightened red man it was the one who heard himself thus addressed, and, glancing like a flash to his right, saw Jack Dudley step forward, with a Winchester rifle leveled at him. Unsuspected by Jack Dudley and Fred Greenwood, their parents read on the instant the momentous problem which assumed form in the brains of their sons. keywords: boys; camp; canyon; cavern; face; feet; fire; fred; fred greenwood; friend; fur; good; greenwood; guide; half; hank; hazletine; head; indian; jack; jack dudley; left; look; man; motoza; place; point; ranch; right; sioux; thing; thought; time; tozer; way; youth cache: 20223.txt plain text: 20223.txt item: #120 of 328 id: 20247 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Wayside Courtships date: None words: 71361 flesch: 90 summary: It is so seldom young men play. Say! called Herman suddenly, as they were about to go to sleep, you ain't got no picnic, old man. keywords: albert; allen; arthur; book; cloth; day; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; fellow; field; girl; good; great; hands; hartley; head; heart; herman; home; house; husband; life; look; love; low; major; man; mattie; maud; men; mind; miner; mother; mrs; new; people; place; ridgeley; right; room; rose; saw; stacey; story; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; wallace; way; white; wife; woman; work; york cache: 20247.txt plain text: 20247.txt item: #121 of 328 id: 20305 author: King, Charles title: Marion's Faith. date: None words: 127920 flesch: 77 summary: Mr. Ray looks up in some surprise. They are riding slowly in from troop-drill, the battalion commander and a pet of his, Mr. Ray, of the --th Cavalry. keywords: --th; away; billings; blake; captain; cavalry; colonel; coming; course; dandy; day; days; door; evening; eyes; face; friend; garrison; general; gleason; going; good; grace; half; hand; head; heart; home; horse; indian; instant; jack; ladies; left; letter; lieutenant; life; long; look; love; major; man; marion; matter; men; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; news; night; officers; post; prairie; quarters; rallston; ray; regiment; room; row; russell; sanford; sergeant; soldier; speak; stannard; talk; thing; thought; time; truscott; turner; valley; wayne; whaling; white; wife; wilkins; woman; word; years; young cache: 20305.txt plain text: 20305.txt item: #122 of 328 id: 20343 author: Spinners' Club title: The Spinners' Book of Fiction date: None words: 91578 flesch: 85 summary: We were old men, and we did not understand. Ol' man Hemenway lived here then with his daughter Jess. keywords: air; bachelder; black; book; boy; chief; children; come; concha; course; days; dead; deep; dog; door; end; eyes; face; faraday; father; feet; filon; find; fire; flume; fong; genevieve; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; imber; jud; juno; know; lady; life; look; love; man; men; mind; miss; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; paul; people; pianner; place; pola; red; room; rose; ryan; saw; story; strong; table; talk; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; woman; work; world; years; yeh; young cache: 20343.txt plain text: 20343.txt item: #123 of 328 id: 20384 author: Harney, George S. title: David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story date: None words: 69315 flesch: 85 summary: Heretofore, she had welcomed old Landy as a visitor to the B-line for the reason that Grandaddy liked him, wanted to confab and badger about the old days. And Adine's other conferee was old Landy Spencer, a notorious resister of progress, who spoke in the language of other days, whose appearance--from battered hat to narrow bootheels--simply pictured the undesirable past; his associates, when he came to town, were of the rabble--the lower stratum. keywords: adine; adot; away; bank; bar; big; business; car; cattle; circus; davy; day; days; fer; find; fine; friend; gillis; git; good; hand; hit; home; house; hulls; jim; jist; landy; lannarck; left; life; line; logan; lot; maizie; man; men; midget; mister; money; morning; mrs; new; party; pay; people; place; public; ranch; right; shirley; story; talk; tell; things; thought; time; ugly; way; welborn; wells; work; years; yer; young; | | cache: 20384.txt plain text: 20384.txt item: #124 of 328 id: 20418 author: Laut, Agnes C. title: Lords of the North date: None words: 105216 flesch: 86 summary: Get you gone to the squaws at the tents, old men, The cart-lines safely encircle the camp! Now, old men and squaws, come you out with the carts! keywords: air; arms; bay; blood; boy; camp; chapter; child; come; coming; company; dark; day; diable; door; douglas; eric; eyes; face; father; feet; fellow; fire; forest; fort; frances; good; governor; grant; ground; half; hamilton; hand; head; heart; holland; horse; hudson; indian; know; lad; laplante; left; life; look; lord; louis; man; men; miriam; night; nor'-westers; north; past; place; priest; red; river; room; rufus; saw; set; sioux; sir; snow; squaw; sutherland; tent; thing; thought; till; time; uncle; voice; way; white; wild; window; woman; words; y'r cache: 20418.txt plain text: 20418.txt item: #125 of 328 id: 2057 author: Grey, Zane title: The Last of the Plainsmen date: None words: 71998 flesch: 89 summary: Hearing Jones heartily greeting some one, I turned in his direction, only to be distracted by another dog fight. Hearing Jones yelling for somebody or everybody, I jumped up to find a procession heading for a point farther down the rim wall, where our leader stood waving his arms. keywords: big; black; buffalo; cabin; camp; canyon; cougar; dark; day; desert; dogs; eyes; face; feet; fire; frank; gray; head; horses; hounds; hunter; jim; jones; lasso; lay; life; lion; look; man; miles; moze; night; north; rea; red; rim; round; run; sand; satan; saw; snow; sounder; time; trail; tree; wallace; water; way; white; wild; wind; yellow cache: 2057.txt plain text: 2057.txt item: #126 of 328 id: 20617 author: Old scout title: Young Wild West at "Forbidden Pass" and, How Arietta Paid the Toll date: None words: 27114 flesch: 93 summary: But it was not going to come to him just then, for Cap Roche suddenly called Chuck Snivel and said: Take Young Wild West out and tie him to the post again. It was just about five o'clock in the afternoon of a cool day in autumn when Young Wild West and his friends rode into a little mining camp called Big Bonanza, which was situated in the heart of the range, known as the Silver Bend Mountains, Nevada. keywords: allee; arietta; cap; cave; charlie; hop; man; outlaws; pass; right; roche; ter; ther; time; way; west; wild; yer cache: 20617.txt plain text: 20617.txt item: #127 of 328 id: 2063 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Trail of the White Mule date: None words: 56473 flesch: 86 summary: He finished his work briskly, presented another notice which advised Casey Ryan to report immediately to police headquarters, waved Casey peremptorily to proceed, and returned to his little square platform to the chorus of blatting automobile horns. He was Casey Ryan, ready always to fight whether his chance of winning was even or merely microscopical; but even so, Casey was not inclined toward suicide. keywords: barney; camp; car; casey; casey ryan; day; desert; door; eyes; face; fer; ford; git; going; hand; hank; head; hootch; joe; kenner; know; left; look; lou; mack; mack nolan; man; new; nolan; paw; right; rock; set; tell; think; thought; time; traffic; trail; want; way; white; woman; yuh cache: 2063.txt plain text: 2063.txt item: #128 of 328 id: 2070 author: Grey, Zane title: To the Last Man date: None words: 97860 flesch: 92 summary: I tell you, Ellen Jorth, declared the old man, thet Jean Isbel loves you--loves you turribly--an' he believes you're good. An', say, Ellen, don't think hard any more of thet Jean Isbel. keywords: aboot; black; blaisdell; blood; blue; bruce; cabin; colter; dad; daggs; dark; day; door; ellen; ellen jorth; eyes; face; father; girl; goin'; good; grass; greaves; half; hand; head; heah; horse; jean; jean isbel; jorth; left; life; long; look; love; man; men; mind; open; queen; reckon; rifle; right; rim; run; saw; sheep; shore; shot; thet; thought; time; trail; valley; voice; wal; way; wild; y'u cache: 2070.txt plain text: 2070.txt item: #129 of 328 id: 20712 author: Ogden, George W. (George Washington) title: Trail's End date: None words: 87889 flesch: 80 summary: Little was said to him of his encounter with the new city marshal, and that little Morgan made less, and brought to short ending by his refusal to be led into the matter at all. The sheriff, humiliated, resentful, red with the anger that choked him--for it was safe now to be as angry as he could lash himself--came stalking up to where Morgan held Craddock and the unwounded raider off from the tempting heap of weapons thrown down by the mob. keywords: ascalon; away; blood; bones; business; cattle; city; come; conboy; country; craddock; crowd; day; days; dead; door; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; good; gray; gun; hand; head; heart; hope; horse; judge; judge thayer; lay; life; look; man; marshal; men; moment; morgan; morning; new; night; office; open; peden; people; place; rhetta; saw; seth; square; stilwell; sun; thayer; thought; time; town; train; voice; way; white; wind; word cache: 20712.txt plain text: 20712.txt item: #130 of 328 id: 20714 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Other Main-Travelled Roads date: None words: 83092 flesch: 90 summary: Sail in ol' man. Say, old man, did you ever work out for a living? That's none o' your business, growled Bacon a little taken down. keywords: air; albert; bacon; bed; bill; boys; children; cold; come; day; deacon; door; eyes; face; field; girl; good; gray; great; hand; hartley; head; help; herman; home; house; jim; know; lay; left; let; life; lime; look; man; maud; men; milton; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; pill; place; poor; preacher; right; road; room; rose; sarah; saw; set; sir; sun; things; thought; time; voice; way; wife; woman; work cache: 20714.txt plain text: 20714.txt item: #131 of 328 id: 21255 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Eagle's Heart date: None words: 82579 flesch: 89 summary: He waited while the contrast which his dramatic utterance made enormously effective was being felt; then, in a deep, melodious voice, touched with sadness, he addressed the judge: And to you, your Honor, I want to say we are old men. You must make all arrangements for me, old man. keywords: black; boy; boys; care; cattle; country; day; delmar; excell; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; harold; head; heart; home; horse; jack; letter; life; look; man; mary; men; moment; money; mose; mrs; new; place; reynolds; right; river; room; set; sheep; son; talk; things; thought; time; town; trail; voice; want; way; west; white; wild; woman; words; years; young; youth cache: 21255.txt plain text: 21255.txt item: #132 of 328 id: 21368 author: Fenn, George Manville title: The Silver Canyon: A Tale of the Western Plains date: None words: 95329 flesch: 80 summary: Still Sam clung to the spot where he had been from the first, and made no effort to move; and at last, when he was half-way through the branch, Bart stopped short in despair, for the pretence of cutting it off had not the slightest effect upon Sam. Tired, Master Bart? cried Joses just then; and snatching away the axe, he began to apply it with tremendous effect, the chips flying over the precipice, and a great yawning opening appearing in the upper part of the branch. I say, Master Bart, said Joses, as he sat upon his strong horse side by side with Bart, watching their train go slowly by, I think we can laugh at the Apaches now, my lad; while, when the Sharp-Toothed Beaver joins us with his dark-skinned fighting men, we can give the rascals such a hunting as shall send 'em north amongst the Yankees with fleas in their ears. keywords: apaches; bart; beaver; boy; camp; canyon; cattle; chief; day; doctor; eyes; find; fire; good; half; hand; help; horses; indians; joses; lad; look; man; master bart; men; mountain; party; place; plain; rifle; right; rock; round; silver; sir; thought; time; water; way cache: 21368.txt plain text: 21368.txt item: #133 of 328 id: 21556 author: Marryat, Frederick title: Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet date: None words: 152547 flesch: 67 summary: They evidently anticipated that they would become great men in the republic, upon the safe delivery of our persons to the Mexican government, and every day took good care to remind us that the gibbet was to be our fate on our arrival. I do not mean to say that all the animals, as the buffaloes, mustangs, deer, etcetera, had run this distance; of course, as the fire rolled on, the animals were gradually collected, till they had formed the astounding mass which I have described, and thousands had probably already perished, long before the fire had reached the prairie where we were encamped; still I have at other times witnessed the extraordinary exertions which animals are capable of when under the influence of fear. keywords: animal; apaches; arrapahoes; bear; body; buffalo; chief; children; comanches; come; country; course; crows; day; days; death; direction; distance; dogs; dollars; evening; expedition; far; father; feet; fire; gabriel; general; good; ground; half; hand; having; head; heart; horses; house; indians; joe; journey; kind; land; left; life; man; men; mexican; miles; moment; money; monterey; morning; mountains; new; night; north; party; people; place; prairie; red; return; rifle; river; roche; shoshones; smith; south; spirit; states; stream; texas; texians; thing; thought; time; tribe; warriors; water; way; west; western; white; wild; yards; years; young cache: 21556.txt plain text: 21556.txt item: #134 of 328 id: 2180 author: Harte, Bret title: In a Hollow of the Hills date: None words: 40249 flesch: 78 summary: While I would not give you false hopes, Mr. Collinson, he said, with a bland smile, my interest in you compels me to say that you may be over confident and wrong. Whether there was some occult power in Collinson's honest grasp, I know not; but there sprang up in Chivers's agile mind the idea that a good way to get rid of Mrs. Collinson was to put her in the way of her husband's finding her, and for an instant, in the contemplation of that idea, this supreme rascal absolutely felt an embarrassing glow of virtue. CHAPTER VI. keywords: chivers; coach; collinson; companion; convent; day; dick; door; eyes; face; fire; half; hand; hollow; house; key; lady; left; man; men; mill; night; road; room; skinner; thar; thought; time; uncle; voice; way; wife; window; woman cache: 2180.txt plain text: 2180.txt item: #135 of 328 id: 2185 author: Harte, Bret title: Maruja date: None words: 42911 flesch: 79 summary: It's as clear as this sunshine that Captain Carroll and Garnier are each particularly anxious to know what the other is doing or intends to do this morning. Captain Carroll brushed them aside hurriedly with his impatient foot, glanced around hastily, then threw himself on the rustic bench at full length and twisted his mustache between his nervous fingers. keywords: aladdin; amita; business; captain; carroll; day; doctor; dona; door; eyes; face; faquita; figure; garnier; good; guest; half; hand; head; house; look; man; maruja; moment; mother; pereo; prince; raymond; road; room; saltonstall; thou; thought; time; way; west cache: 2185.txt plain text: 2185.txt item: #136 of 328 id: 21903 author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn title: The Californians date: None words: 89607 flesch: 84 summary: He married Magdaléna Yorba, and borrowed from Don Roberto enough money to open a store in Monterey stocked with such necessities and luxuries as could be imported from Boston. She, Magdaléna Yorba, the dull, the silent, the terrified? keywords: beauty; belmont; brain; california; colonel; come; course; dark; day; don; door; end; eyes; face; father; girls; good; half; hand; head; helena; house; ila; left; life; little; look; love; magdaléna; man; men; menlo; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; new; night; people; place; polk; roberto; room; rose; san; talk; things; think; thought; time; trennahan; want; washington; way; white; woman; world; years; yorba cache: 21903.txt plain text: 21903.txt item: #137 of 328 id: 22057 author: Powers, Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) title: Kid Wolf of Texas A Western Story date: None words: 63525 flesch: 94 summary: Kid Wolf Of Texas A Western Story By WARD M. STEVENS CHELSEA HOUSE 79 Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y. PUBLISHERS Kid Wolf Of Texas Copyright, 1930, by CHELSEA HOUSE Printed in the U. S. A. Somethin' on my mind, Kid Wolf. keywords: away; bar; blacksnake; blizzard; bullet; came; cattle; door; drawled; eyes; face; feet; fire; garvey; gentleman; goin'; good; gun; guns; half; hand; hardy; head; horse; john; kid wolf; know; left; man; men; modoc; place; red; right; robbins; terror; texan; thomas; time; tip; train; voice; wagon; white; yo're; yore; yuh cache: 22057.txt plain text: 22057.txt item: #138 of 328 id: 22180 author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley) title: Prairie Flowers date: None words: 79502 flesch: 91 summary: Best man on the range--handled men the easiest you ever saw. Other men were shooting, and between the sounds of the shots the voice of Ike Stork could be heard loudly bewailing the loss of his horse. keywords: alice; bar; bat; be'n; bill; blue; boat; cinnabar; colston; coulee; endicott; eyes; face; feet; fer; girl; git; goin'; good; grimshaw; gun; half; hand; head; hell; horse; joe; lands; look; man; mcwhorter; men; moment; purdy; red; ride; right; river; rock; rode; saddle; tell; texan; thought; time; trail; water; way; woman; words; year; yer cache: 22180.txt plain text: 22180.txt item: #139 of 328 id: 22233 author: White, Stewart Edward title: Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life date: None words: 52042 flesch: 86 summary: Men would come to the town, men with money, men anxious to invest. He sent message after message to Beeson Lake demanding more men. keywords: alfred; away; barbara; billy; black; brown; camp; darrell; day; eyes; face; feet; fire; fitzpatrick; forest; girl; good; half; hand; head; horse; jack; jimmy; left; life; like; little; log; logs; look; man; men; moment; peter; right; river; saw; severne; silver; stranger; thing; time; tom; trail; water; way; white; woods; work cache: 22233.txt plain text: 22233.txt item: #140 of 328 id: 22270 author: Bennet, Robert Ames title: Bloom of Cactus date: None words: 51391 flesch: 92 summary: But she lingered to eye Lennon wistfully as he stood up to meet Carmena's level glance. If you'll permit me ... my name is Lennon--Jack Lennon--mining engineer. keywords: apaches; carmena; caã±on; cliff; cochise; come; dad; dead; doorway; elsie; eyes; face; farley; foot; girl; good; half; hand; head; hole; jack; ladder; left; lennon; look; man; navaho; pete; pony; rifle; right; room; rope; slade; time; trader; trail; valley; water; way cache: 22270.txt plain text: 22270.txt item: #141 of 328 id: 22328 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Oh, You Tex! date: None words: 75917 flesch: 95 summary: You take expensive smokes, young man, chuckled the officer. Plenty of good men want it. keywords: arthur; away; boy; business; captain; cattleman; clint; day; dinsmore; ellison; eyes; face; father; fellow; girl; goin'; good; gurley; hand; head; heart; homer; horse; jack; jumbo; left; life; line; look; man; men; moment; pete; ramona; ranger; rider; ridley; right; roberts; rock; saddle; shot; tell; till; time; tony; town; trail; wadley; way; young cache: 22328.txt plain text: 22328.txt item: #142 of 328 id: 22571 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Bravery date: None words: 80586 flesch: 92 summary: Frank saw Barney really thought he spoke the truth. He edged nearer Frank, who fell face downward on the table, still laughing, but pretending to quiver with sobs. keywords: away; barney; bart; bit; black; boy; boys; chapter; child; danites; door; eyes; face; father; fellow; fer; frank; girl; good; guide; half; hand; harry; head; hermit; hold; jail; kin; lad; left; life; long; look; man; men; merriwell; moment; place; professor; right; rocks; saw; scotch; shot; solitary; ter; thar; ther; thet; thing; thot; time; train; voice; want; white; yer; young cache: 22571.txt plain text: 22571.txt item: #143 of 328 id: 22583 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: The Highgrader date: None words: 71860 flesch: 93 summary: Mr. Jack Kilmeny is going to get into trouble this very night. Not after the mauling that young man gave him. keywords: bleyer; captain; chance; colter; course; cousin; day; dear; dwight; eyes; face; farquhar; find; friend; girl; good; hand; heart; india; jack; jack kilmeny; joyce; kilmeny; lady; left; let; life; look; love; man; miss; moment; money; moya; ned; night; ore; room; seldon; smile; story; talk; thing; thought; time; verinder; voice; way; woman; young cache: 22583.txt plain text: 22583.txt item: #144 of 328 id: 22670 author: Senarens, Luis title: Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys date: None words: 37043 flesch: 91 summary: Wot kin I do fer yer ter-day? Is Mr. Jack Wright in? politely asked the bandit. But suddenly the solemned-faced Frank exclaimed in startled tones: Say! Suppose Jack Wright finds out in the bank what you've done! keywords: bandits; bang; bank; boys; door; fire; frank; friends; fritz; gang; good; hand; horse; inventor; jack; jack wright; james; jesse; left; little; look; man; men; moment; money; noname; outlaws; room; run; saw; sea; seen; sheriff; stage; terror; ther; tim; timberlake; time; train; way; wot; wuz; yer cache: 22670.txt plain text: 22670.txt item: #145 of 328 id: 2280 author: Harte, Bret title: A Millionaire of Rough-and-Ready date: None words: 29074 flesch: 77 summary: Reserved, like his father, in natural disposition, he was still more gravely ceremonious from his loss; and, perhaps from the shyness of an evident partiality for Mamie Mulrady, he rarely availed himself of her mother's sympathizing hospitality. It was quite consistent, therefore, that the embroidered cambric dress which Mamie Mulrady wore one summer afternoon on the hillside at Los Gatos, while to the critical feminine eye at once artistic and expensive, should not seem incongruous to her surroundings or to herself in the eyes of a general audience. keywords: caesar; day; don; don caesar; eyes; face; family; fortune; gold; good; half; hand; house; left; letter; mamie; man; masters; moment; mrs; mulrady; new; right; slinn; thought; time; want; way; wife cache: 2280.txt plain text: 2280.txt item: #146 of 328 id: 2281 author: Harte, Bret title: The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales date: None words: 50415 flesch: 74 summary: Nevertheless, when Captain Jim, returning one day from the nearest settlement and post-office, twenty miles away, burst upon us with Well, the hull thing'll be settled now, boys; Lacy Bassett is coming down yer to look round, we felt considerably relieved. When Captain Jim began, Ez Lacy was one day tellin' me, or, Ez Lacy Bassett allows, or more formally, when strangers were present, Ez a partickler friend o' mine, Lacy Bassett--maybe ez you know him--sez, the youthful and lighter members of the Eureka Mining Company glanced at each other in furtive enjoyment. keywords: bassett; believe; bly; brooks; brother; calvert; captain; captain jim; cherry; come; company; day; don; door; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; half; hand; herbert; house; jenkinson; jim; jose; lacy; left; look; maggie; man; marsh; miss; moment; mother; mrs; night; room; saw; sister; tappington; thought; time; voice; way; window; yer cache: 2281.txt plain text: 2281.txt item: #147 of 328 id: 2285 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) date: None words: 64090 flesch: 87 summary: You are both good men. But, then, good women are not so rare as good men. keywords: aline; balfour; business; consolidated; course; day; door; eaton; eyes; face; find; good; hands; harley; head; heart; help; hobart; house; life; look; man; men; mesa; miss; pelton; ridgway; right; room; sam; simon; smile; snow; state; things; thought; time; trust; virginia; voice; waring; wife; woman; world; yesler; young cache: 2285.txt plain text: 2285.txt item: #148 of 328 id: 23242 author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) title: Laramie Holds the Range date: None words: 105249 flesch: 87 summary: Tenison spoke slowly and impressively: Tell Laramie, he said, I copper all that stuff--every bit of it. The woman with the light started back in horror and a sharp little exclamation betrayed her identity; Laramie was at once aware that he was facing Kate Doubleday. keywords: abe; away; barb; belle; bradley; cabin; carpy; cat; country; creek; door; doubleday; eyes; face; father; feet; good; hand; hawk; head; home; horn; horse; jim; jim laramie; john; kate; laramie; lefever; left; look; man; mcalpin; men; moment; open; place; ranch; ride; rifle; right; rode; room; sawdy; stone; talk; tenison; thought; time; town; trail; van; van horn; wall; want; way; woman; words cache: 23242.txt plain text: 23242.txt item: #149 of 328 id: 23244 author: Lockhart, Caroline title: The Dude Wrangler date: None words: 75644 flesch: 80 summary: As soon as they were out of the building, Wallie inquired casually: Does Miss Spenceley live in my neighbourhood? [Illustration: Wallie swung the frying pan with all his strength ... knocking the six-shooter from Boise Bill's hand as he jumped across the fire at him] Garden City, N. Y., And Toronto Doubleday, Page & Company 1921 Copyright, 1921, by Doubleday, Page & Company All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian Copyright, 1921, by Street & Smith Corporation CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. keywords: answer; appel; attention; aunt; budlong; canby; cone; cook; country; cow; day; door; eyes; eyester; face; fact; feet; gaskett; git; good; guests; hand; head; helene; hicks; horse; leave; left; lizzie; look; man; matter; mercy; mind; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; penrose; person; pinkey; place; prouty; red; ride; riding; rufus; saddle; spenceley; stott; thought; time; tucker; voice; wallie; want; water; way; work cache: 23244.txt plain text: 23244.txt item: #150 of 328 id: 23296 author: Lockhart, Caroline title: The Fighting Shepherdess date: None words: 104861 flesch: 81 summary: As Mrs. Toomey shook her head her smile and tone expressed ineffable exclusiveness. If I knew some one to ask-- There's Maggie Taylor, Mrs. Toomey suggested. keywords: air; bank; bowers; business; butefish; cold; coming; country; day; disston; door; eyes; face; feeling; feet; girl; git; good; hair; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hughie; interest; jap; joe; kate; kind; lay; left; life; look; major; man; manner; mean; mind; moment; money; mormon; mrs; mullendore; neifkins; new; night; pantin; prentice; prentiss; prouty; room; saw; set; sheep; stranger; table; taylor; teeters; things; think; thought; time; tone; toomey; town; voice; wagon; want; water; way; wentz; white; wind; woman; work; world; years cache: 23296.txt plain text: 23296.txt item: #151 of 328 id: 23487 author: King, Charles title: Tonio, Son of the Sierras: A Story of the Apache War date: None words: 90219 flesch: 77 summary: There, all alone, was Willett, writing, and to Willett Archer told the message of the feather, and of Harris's eagerness to find 'Tonio at once. This was why, within the week that followed their mission in quest of ice, three Indian scouts that were still casuals at Almy, set forth eastward, full panoplied for the field, with little Harris at their head. keywords: almy; answer; apache; archer; away; bennett; bentley; bonner; camp; captain; case; chief; coming; commander; craney; day; days; doctor; east; eyes; face; feet; forth; general; girl; going; good; half; hand; harris; head; heart; indian; left; lieutenant; lilian; little; love; man; men; minutes; moment; mother; mrs; night; officer; people; post; quarters; room; sanchez; scouts; sergeant; set; shot; sir; soldier; stannard; stream; strong; time; tonio; turner; white; willett; word; young cache: 23487.txt plain text: 23487.txt item: #152 of 328 id: 23730 author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley) title: The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest date: None words: 95664 flesch: 87 summary: For old man Frontenelle had been his uncle. I was at Skelly's when they brought old man Frontenelle in, added a big man, whose heavy beard was shot with gray, as he turned from the stove with a shudder. keywords: air; appleton; av th; away; bill; bill carmody; blood; body; boss; boy; bunk; camp; carmody; chapter; close; cold; creed; daddy; day; days; deep; door; ethel; eyes; face; fallon; feet; fer; fire; girl; good; greener; half; hand; head; heart; heavy; house; indian; jeanne; know; life; lips; logs; look; love; man; men; moment; moncrossen; morning; new; night; office; place; river; room; shack; snow; thin; thought; time; voice; water; way; whisky; white; wid; woman; words; work; young cache: 23730.txt plain text: 23730.txt item: #153 of 328 id: 2471 author: Harte, Bret title: The Crusade of the Excelsior date: None words: 73305 flesch: 73 summary: Of the greater popularity of Miss Keene as the recognized belle of the Excelsior there could be no question; nor was there any from Mrs. Brimmer and her friend. When the Excelsior Recrossed the Line, with a suitable tableau vivant and pageant, and Miss Keene as California, in white and blue, welcomed from the hands of Neptune (Senor Perkins) and Amphitrite (Mrs. Markham) her fair sister, Massachusetts (Mrs. Brimmer), and New York (Miss Chubb), Mrs. Brimmer was most enthusiastic of the beauty of Miss Keene. keywords: banks; boat; brace; brimmer; bunker; captain; chapter; chubb; church; comandante; commander; crosby; day; dear; deck; dona; door; esteban; excelsior; eyes; face; father; fog; friend; girl; good; government; half; hand; hurlstone; keene; like; look; man; markham; miss; mission; moment; mrs; padre; passengers; perkins; priest; room; santos; sea; senor; ship; think; thought; time; todos; voice; way; winslow; woman cache: 2471.txt plain text: 2471.txt item: #154 of 328 id: 25835 author: Burt, Katharine Newlin title: The Branding Iron date: None words: 64693 flesch: 91 summary: For Joan pain began and daily it increased. Joan and Prosper 205 VII. keywords: away; beautiful; betty; child; day; door; eyes; face; fire; gael; girl; good; hand; head; heart; house; jane; jasper; joan; life; look; looking; love; man; men; morena; night; pierre; prosper; read; room; snow; things; thought; time; voice; west; white; woman; work cache: 25835.txt plain text: 25835.txt item: #155 of 328 id: 25960 author: Hamby, William H. (William Henry) title: The Desert Fiddler date: None words: 43073 flesch: 89 summary: Crill had never mentioned the matter, but Bob knew Jenkins had got money from somewhere, and there certainly was no one else in the valley that would have lent it to him. [Frontispiece: Charles Ray as Bob Rogeen, and Barbara Bedford as Imogene Chandler. keywords: barnett; bob; chandler; cotton; crill; crop; day; desert; dollars; eyes; ezekiel; face; good; head; imogene; jenkins; jim; left; line; madrigal; man; mexican; money; mrs; night; noah; pay; ranch; red; reedy; reedy jenkins; road; rogeen; time; water; way; work cache: 25960.txt plain text: 25960.txt item: #156 of 328 id: 26061 author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley) title: The Gold Girl date: None words: 75461 flesch: 89 summary: But somewheres between the two of 'em is the place where good men fits in--an' that's Vil. A person slipped me the word he could handle about twenty head of horses. keywords: 'em; bethune; cabin; claim; come; creek; day; door; eyes; face; father; fer; girl; git; goin'; good; hain't; hand; head; hills; hit; holland; horse; jug; man; map; microby; moment; patty; place; ranch; ride; right; rock; saddle; samuelson; sinclair; tell; thompson; thought; time; town; trail; valley; vil; vil holland; watts; way; woman; words; work; wus cache: 26061.txt plain text: 26061.txt item: #157 of 328 id: 26137 author: King, Charles title: Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier date: None words: 72204 flesch: 80 summary: Uncle Jack is worried about her; so, too, is mamma, though the latter is so wrapped up in the graduation of her boy that she has little time to think of pallid cheeks and mournful eyes. We are young men compared to him, and it was through him that we came to seek our fortune here, but he is virtually the head of both establishments.' keywords: away; billings; billy; captain; cavalry; colonel; coming; dark; day; days; eyes; face; farron; father; girl; good; guard; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; indians; jessie; laramie; lee; left; lieutenant; like; little; look; man; mckay; men; miles; miss; moment; new; night; o'grady; officer; point; ralph; ranch; room; sergeant; sir; soldier; stanley; tell; time; troop; valley; van; wells cache: 26137.txt plain text: 26137.txt item: #158 of 328 id: 26234 author: Braden, James A. (James Andrew) title: Far Past the Frontier date: None words: 49202 flesch: 82 summary: Knowing Ree even well as he did, John was surprised to hear him speak thus fluently and strongly, but he greatly feared his friend had been unwise in speaking so boldly. Jim Huson's been hurt; they want you at the store, quick, Ree Kingdom breathlessly explained. keywords: big; boys; buffalo; cabin; camp; capt; chief; day; fellow; fire; fish; going; good; hand; head; home; horse; indians; john; kingdom; lads; man; night; pete; pipe; place; ree; river; road; shot; thought; time; tom; way; young cache: 26234.txt plain text: 26234.txt item: #159 of 328 id: 26239 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Forester's Daughter: A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range date: None words: 65544 flesch: 89 summary: Too considerate, said Berrie, shortly; he makes other men seem like bears or pigs. I rode up on the stage yesterday with Miss Berrie McFarlane. keywords: belden; berea; berrie; camp; care; cliff; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; feel; fire; forest; girl; good; hand; horse; kind; life; look; man; mcfarlane; meeker; moment; morning; mother; mrs; nash; new; norcross; place; ride; right; rose; supervisor; thing; thought; time; trail; valley; voice; wayland; work cache: 26239.txt plain text: 26239.txt item: #160 of 328 id: 26244 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Cavanagh, Forest Ranger: A Romance of the Mountain West date: None words: 80607 flesch: 87 summary: Are you sweet on the girl? Now, see here, old man, Ross retorted, sharply, you want to do a lot of thinking before you comment on Miss Wetherford. But see here, old man, and he turned on him sharply, you didn't tell me the whole truth. keywords: away; cattle; cavanagh; country; day; days; doctor; door; eyes; face; father; forest; girl; going; good; gregg; hand; heart; help; horse; kind; law; lee; life; lize; man; men; mind; moment; mother; mrs; new; place; ranger; redfield; ride; right; room; ross; sheep; state; thought; time; town; virginia; voice; west; wetherford; work cache: 26244.txt plain text: 26244.txt item: #161 of 328 id: 26389 author: Raymond, Evelyn title: Dorothy on a Ranch date: None words: 60336 flesch: 89 summary: You're scaring this timid little thing so it won't drink. He laid his hand upon her head and gently asked: Was he your brother, little girl? No. keywords: alfaretta; alfy; boy; boys; captain; day; dorothy; eyes; face; ford; girl; going; good; gray; hand; head; helena; herbert; home; jim; lady; lem; leon; leslie; life; little; look; man; mean; molly; monty; mrs; place; right; room; san; sing; tell; thing; thought; time; way; white; wun cache: 26389.txt plain text: 26389.txt item: #162 of 328 id: 26434 author: Hamp, Sidford F. (Sidford Frederick) title: The Boys of Crawford's Basin The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado date: None words: 67716 flesch: 83 summary: It would be well, wouldn't it, to tell Tom Connor about it? suggested Joe. We had arranged between us that Joe should ride to Sulphide that morning to see Tom Connor and Yetmore, as my father had directed; and accordingly, as soon as he could get off, away he went; the pinto pony, very fresh and lively, going off as though he intended to gallop the whole distance. keywords: big; boys; connor; course; day; father; feet; find; foot; going; good; hand; hole; house; joe; john; know; long; look; man; moment; morning; peter; phil; right; snow; stream; thing; time; tom; water; way; work; yetmore cache: 26434.txt plain text: 26434.txt item: #163 of 328 id: 26520 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: The Fighting Edge date: None words: 78937 flesch: 96 summary: Houck Takes a Ride 100 XV. Said Jake Houck had some trouble with a y-young Ute buck over a hawss. keywords: bandy; bear; blister; bob; boy; boys; business; cat; chance; chapter; close; country; day; dillon; door; dud; eyes; face; father; fellow; girl; good; hand; harshaw; head; heart; hollister; horse; houck; jake; jake houck; june; left; life; look; man; men; mind; mollie; moment; pete; reckon; right; river; round; shot; tell; thing; thought; time; tolliver; town; utes; voice; water; way cache: 26520.txt plain text: 26520.txt item: #164 of 328 id: 26911 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Crooked Trails and Straight date: None words: 70370 flesch: 95 summary: There was more than one anxious heart at the Circle C waiting for the verdict of the bowlegged baldheaded little man with the satchel, but not one of them--no, not even Kate Cullison herself--was in a colder fear than Curly Flandrau. You'll get yours pretty soon, Mr. Curly Flandrau. keywords: blackwell; boy; bucky; cass; circle; cullison; curly; day; door; eyes; face; father; fendrick; flandrau; friend; girl; going; good; hand; head; hold; horse; kate; left; look; luck; mac; maloney; man; men; miss; place; prisoner; ranch; right; sam; sheriff; shot; soapy; stone; thing; time; voice; want; way cache: 26911.txt plain text: 26911.txt item: #165 of 328 id: 26951 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: 'Firebrand' Trevison date: None words: 84256 flesch: 85 summary: A mile out of town Trevison met Corrigan. It came from several doors, in the shapes of other men who had heard the first man's shout, and presently the rider was surrounded by many friends. keywords: agatha; banker; benham; black; braman; building; carson; corrigan; cut; day; door; eyes; face; father; felt; girl; good; hands; head; hester; horse; instant; judge; land; left; levins; lindman; lips; long; look; man; manti; men; miss; morning; nigger; railroad; record; rider; right; room; rosalind; street; thought; time; town; trevison; voice; wall; want; way; window; woman cache: 26951.txt plain text: 26951.txt item: #166 of 328 id: 27051 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: The Trail to Yesterday date: None words: 65282 flesch: 87 summary: In the presence of Duncan Sheila told him the story of her danger and subsequent rescue by Dakota and she saw his eyes narrow with a strange light. I'm telling you one thing, added Duncan, and now his voice was filled with passion, Dakota and Sheila Langford are pretty thick. keywords: allen; blanca; business; cabin; coming; country; course; dakota; day; door; doubler; duncan; eyes; face; father; gaze; good; hand; langford; lazette; left; lips; look; man; manner; men; parson; pony; right; river; saddle; sheila; smile; thought; time; trail; voice; water; words cache: 27051.txt plain text: 27051.txt item: #167 of 328 id: 27115 author: Bindloss, Harold title: The Cattle-Baron's Daughter date: None words: 108128 flesch: 89 summary: After all, it was the greatest day in most women's lives, and she felt the unseemliness of the rite that had made her and Larry man and wife. They are good men, and I'm thankful there are still so many of them, because just now they are all that is standing between this country and anarchy. keywords: allonby; boys; breckenridge; cattle; cheyne; clavering; come; country; door; eyes; face; flora; girl; glanced; good; grant; hand; head; hetty; hetty torrance; horse; kind; larry; little; man; men; miss; miss schuyler; moment; muller; prairie; right; room; round; saw; schuyler; snow; thing; time; torrance; voice; want; way cache: 27115.txt plain text: 27115.txt item: #168 of 328 id: 27150 author: Maniates, Belle Kanaris title: Penny of Top Hill Trail date: None words: 44533 flesch: 93 summary: I went over to her and said: 'Excuse my nerve, little girl, but I guess you're in the wrong pew.' This was not the pert, saucy, little girl he had taken from Bender, nor the little playmate of the children, nor yet the quiet, domestic woman who had served him that night in the kitchen. keywords: betty; car; children; day; eyes; francis; girl; going; good; hebler; hill; kind; kingdon; kurt; larry; look; love; man; marta; miss; mrs; night; pen; ranch; ring; room; thief; thought; time; town; way; woman cache: 27150.txt plain text: 27150.txt item: #169 of 328 id: 27355 author: Ames, Joseph Bushnell title: Shoe-Bar Stratton date: None words: 78722 flesch: 87 summary: But to Buck Stratton the charm lay deeper than mere externals. Fifteen minutes later the roan, saddled and bridled, pawed the dust beside the hitching rack in front of the store, while Buck Stratton made a small bundle of his coat, vest, and a few necessaries from his bag and fastened it behind the saddle. keywords: away; bar; briefly; buck; buck stratton; bud; bunk; course; door; eyes; face; girl; glance; going; good; hand; head; horse; instant; jessup; know; left; let; lips; look; lynch; man; mary; men; mind; miss; moment; pasture; ranch; right; room; saddle; shoe; stratton; tell; tex; thorne; thought; time; trail; voice; way; work; yuh cache: 27355.txt plain text: 27355.txt item: #170 of 328 id: 27436 author: Raine, William MacLeod title: Brand Blotters date: None words: 77832 flesch: 93 summary: Good men and bad, at bottom we are all made of the same stuff, once we are down to the primal emotions that go deeper than civilization's veneer. All four were young men; but there was an odd difference in the expressions of their faces. keywords: bellamy; black; boone; day; eyes; face; father; flatray; friend; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; hills; hold; hour; house; jack; lee; left; life; little; look; macqueen; man; melissy; men; miss; morse; norris; o'connor; right; room; saddle; sheep; sheriff; stage; thing; thought; time; trail; voice; want; way; west; woman cache: 27436.txt plain text: 27436.txt item: #171 of 328 id: 27437 author: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) title: Desert Dust date: None words: 69915 flesch: 92 summary: These thoughts which precede a certain duel to the death are not inspiring thoughts; since then I have learned that other men, even practiced gun-men, have had the same trepidation to the instant of pulling weapon. Then it all pridefully resolved to this, like the warming tune of a fine battle chant: That I was here, with my woman, my partner woman, the much desirable woman whom I had won; which was more than Daniel, or Montoyo, or the Indian chief, or the wide world of other men could boast. keywords: adams; benton; black; blue; business; captain; card; colonel; come; country; course; daniel; desert; dollars; dust; eyes; face; friend; gentleman; good; half; hand; jenks; jim; lady; left; look; madam; man; men; moment; money; montoyo; new; north; place; platte; queen; revolver; right; set; sir; suh; tell; tent; time; train; turn; wagon; way; west; white; woman; young cache: 27437.txt plain text: 27437.txt item: #172 of 328 id: 27475 author: Ryan, Marah Ellis title: That Girl Montana date: None words: 106733 flesch: 89 summary: Well, you've got a big name, little girl, and as it is proof that you belong to the States, don't you think you'd better let me take you back there? Maybe I have, little girl, he said at last. keywords: akkomi; cabin; camp; captain; care; dan; day; door; eyes; face; find; girl; gold; good; guess; hand; harris; haydon; head; help; huzzard; indian; left; life; look; lyster; man; max; men; miss; mrs; new; overton; people; right; river; saw; sort; squaw; stranger; talk; tana; things; thought; time; way; white; woman; words cache: 27475.txt plain text: 27475.txt item: #173 of 328 id: 27511 author: Sullivan, Francis William title: The Free Range date: None words: 64058 flesch: 83 summary: Now, what do yuh say to do? For a long minute of silence Bud Larkin thought. Why--and her lip curled scornfully--I would marry Bud Larkin a hundred times rather than Mike Stelton once. keywords: animals; bar; bissell; bud; bud larkin; business; caldwell; camp; cattle; cowboys; cowmen; day; eyes; face; fact; father; flock; girl; good; half; hand; head; horse; juliet; larkin; left; life; love; man; men; moment; night; north; punchers; ranch; range; river; rustlers; sheep; sims; stelton; story; tell; thing; thought; time; want; way; yuh cache: 27511.txt plain text: 27511.txt item: #174 of 328 id: 27521 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Watchers of the Plains: A Tale of the Western Prairies date: None words: 91589 flesch: 90 summary: At last Seth turned to his letter in earnest. At last Seth broke the silence. keywords: brother; chief; child; dark; day; direction; eyes; face; farm; father; fox; girl; git; going; good; guess; hand; head; heart; help; horse; indian; jest; kind; know; left; letter; life; look; love; man; manner; men; moment; mrs; nevil; parker; people; prairie; right; river; rosebud; round; rube; seth; silence; smile; squaw; steyne; story; ther; things; think; thought; time; tone; wanaha; want; way; white; woman; words; work; world cache: 27521.txt plain text: 27521.txt item: #175 of 328 id: 27913 author: Reid, Mayne title: The Quadroon: Adventures in the Far West date: None words: 119322 flesch: 83 summary: It was thought by some that their friendship had a little of the character of that which usually exists between _debtor_ and _creditor_. Old Gayarre-- Owns _thee_ plantation. keywords: aurore; besancon; black; blood; boat; captain; chapter; city; companion; course; creole; d'hauteville; dark; day; direction; doctor; dollars; doubt; eugenie; eyes; face; fear; find; forest; game; gave; gayarre; glance; good; ground; half; hand; head; heart; horses; hour; house; interest; lady; length; life; like; little; look; love; mademoiselle; man; mass; mass'r; mind; moment; monsieur; negro; new; night; orleans; place; plantation; poor; purpose; quadroon; red; river; road; room; scene; scipio; slave; tell; think; thought; time; tone; tree; voice; water; way; white; woods cache: 27913.txt plain text: 27913.txt item: #176 of 328 id: 2794 author: Harte, Bret title: Found at Blazing Star date: None words: 12228 flesch: 81 summary: For poor Cass had not yet reached that superiority of knowing that success would depend upon his ability to forego his past. Cass--Henry Cass. keywords: blazing; cass; chief; coach; eyes; girl; half; hand; hornsby; look; man; miss; porter; ring; road; star cache: 2794.txt plain text: 2794.txt item: #177 of 328 id: 28356 author: Bower, B. M. title: The Ranch at the Wolverine date: None words: 102324 flesch: 91 summary: She questioned him artfully--trust Billy Louise for that!--and she decided that the stock inspector was either a very poor detective or a very good actor. I ain't never had a chance to do all I wanted to with it, said Marthy, with the first hint of apology Billy Louise had ever heard from her. keywords: big; billy louise; blue; buck; cabin; cattle; charlie; close; corral; course; cove; creek; day; door; eyes; face; fingers; fox; girl; going; good; guess; hand; head; hills; home; horse; jase; lady; lay; left; life; lips; look; looking; man; marthy; mind; miss; mommie; mother; olney; place; ranch; rattler; ride; right; saddle; seabeck; set; things; thought; time; trail; voice; want; ward; water; way; william; woman; work; young cache: 28356.txt plain text: 28356.txt item: #178 of 328 id: 28482 author: Bower, B. M. title: Sawtooth Ranch date: None words: 60842 flesch: 89 summary: Brit's careful about them things--little men most always are. CHAPTER II THE ENCHANTMENT OF LONG DISTANCE Lorraine Hunter always maintained that she was a Western girl. keywords: brit; dad; doctor; eyes; face; father; frank; girl; good; hand; hawkins; head; horse; hunter; know; left; little; lone; look; lorraine; man; men; place; quirt; ranch; ride; right; road; saddle; sawtooth; senator; swan; thought; thurman; time; trail; warfield; way; yuh cache: 28482.txt plain text: 28482.txt item: #179 of 328 id: 28502 author: Murray, W. H. H. (William Henry Harrison) title: The Busted Ex-Texan, and Other Stories date: None words: 19087 flesch: 79 summary: Now, old Jack was a horse of a great deal of character, and had a great history; but of this none in that section, save the little deacon, knew a word. And so, with any amount of good-natured chaffing from the drivers of the fast 'uns, and from many that lined the road too,--for the day gave greater liberty than usual to bantering speech,--the speedy ones paced slowly up to the head of the street, with old Jack shambling demurely in the midst of them. keywords: books; calf; captain; cow; day; days; deacon; eyes; face; good; guest; horse; jack; life; man; men; murray; new; parson; sleigh; texan; time; word cache: 28502.txt plain text: 28502.txt item: #180 of 328 id: 28551 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Trail of the Goldseekers: A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse date: None words: 57414 flesch: 86 summary: The east is gray with coming day,_ _ The citizens, so far as visible, formed a queer collection of old men addicted to rum. keywords: boat; boys; burton; camp; cold; country; day; days; deep; feed; feet; forest; gold; good; grass; gray; head; horses; ladrone; lake; land; lay; left; man; men; miles; morning; mountains; near; new; night; pack; partner; rain; river; road; rose; set; sky; stream; sun; tent; time; town; trail; water; way; white; wild; wind cache: 28551.txt plain text: 28551.txt item: #181 of 328 id: 28579 author: Stead, Robert J. C. title: The Homesteaders: A Novel of the Canadian West date: None words: 82409 flesch: 84 summary: Well, my Land! if it ain't Beulah Harris!' As fate would have it, Riles selected as the base of his homestead operations the very foothill town to which Beulah Harris had come a few weeks before. keywords: allan; arthurs; away; beulah; country; course; day; door; eyes; face; farm; father; gardiner; girl; good; grey; half; hand; harris; heart; home; horses; house; jim; john; land; left; let; life; little; look; man; mary; mccrae; mind; moment; money; mother; new; place; prairie; right; riles; road; room; saw; set; things; thought; time; town; travers; water; way; west; wife; work; years cache: 28579.txt plain text: 28579.txt item: #182 of 328 id: 28585 author: Kelly, Florence Finch title: With Hoops of Steel date: None words: 86559 flesch: 85 summary: What will Emerson Mead say to that! Well, there's Emerson Mead has had his range for the last five years, and Willet still longer, and McAlvin and Brewer, they've been there a long time, too, and they all say they've got more right to the range than the company has, because they own the water holes, and they don't propose to be crowded out by no corporation. keywords: 'em; body; canyon; cattle; child; day; delarue; ellhorn; emerson; emerson mead; eyes; face; find; good; hand; haney; harlin; head; horse; jim; judge; know; las; left; look; love; man; marguerite; mead; men; mexican; mountains; nick; plumas; ranch; right; road; street; thing; thought; time; tom; town; tuttle; water; way; wellesly; white; whittaker cache: 28585.txt plain text: 28585.txt item: #183 of 328 id: 28638 author: Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan) title: Rimrock Trail date: None words: 105688 flesch: 91 summary: You, Sandy Bourke an' Sam Manning, stick up yore hands! You got good eyesight, returned Sandy. On'y way the odds 'ud be even w'ud be fo' them to git the drop on Sandy an' it can't be done. keywords: away; bailey; blood; bourke; business; butch; camp; car; casey; chance; claims; close; coming; crowd; dad; door; end; eyes; face; figger; game; girl; git; goin'; gold; good; grit; gun; hahn; half; hand; head; hell; hereford; horse; jest; jim; jordan; keith; left; look; man; men; miranda; miss; molly; money; mormon; new; nicholson; partners; place; plimsoll; pronto; ranch; range; right; rock; round; russell; saddle; sam; sandy; sandy bourke; saw; set; shot; star; stay; stock; sun; talk; thing; thought; time; town; trail; voice; w'udn't; water; way; westlake; white; woman; wyatt; yore; young cache: 28638.txt plain text: 28638.txt item: #184 of 328 id: 28675 author: Wister, Owen title: Red Men and White date: None words: 82147 flesch: 86 summary: Old men in blankets and feathers sat near it, listening to young Cheschapah's talk in the flighty lustre of the flames. Talk is pretty good for old men. keywords: arizona; ballard; black; boy; camp; captain; cheschapah; coming; country; crook; cumnor; day; driver; eyes; face; friend; general; genesmere; gone; good; governor; half; hand; head; horse; indians; jenks; jones; lay; left; lolita; long; look; luis; man; medicine; men; mind; morning; mrs; new; night; people; road; round; sheriff; specimen; stage; stirling; talk; think; thought; time; tucson; voice; water; way; white; woman; y'u; young cache: 28675.txt plain text: 28675.txt item: #185 of 328 id: 28956 author: Roe, Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) title: Tharon of Lost Valley date: None words: 64578 flesch: 91 summary: He rides not like Lost Valley men, either, being too stiff and straight. The man himself was unlike Lost Valley men. keywords: away; big; billy; black; blood; blue; country; courtrey; dark; day; ellen; eyes; face; girl; golden; gun; hand; head; heart; holding; horse; jim; kenset; law; life; like; lips; look; man; men; moment; night; open; saw; tharon; thing; thought; time; took; valley; voice; wall; woman; work cache: 28956.txt plain text: 28956.txt item: #186 of 328 id: 29028 author: Winter, William West title: Louisiana Lou A Western Story date: None words: 69475 flesch: 87 summary: And Snake Murphy: he used to keep the road house at the ford over the river, didn't he? Once more Sucatash, fairly well informed on ancient history himself, eyed De Launay askance. She saw De Launay stagger again and felt that she was about to faint. keywords: away; banker; camp; canyon; chapter; cow; dave; day; de launay; doolittle; eyes; face; fact; father; find; french; girl; gold; good; hair; half; hand; head; horse; ike; jim; look; louisiana; ma'am; mademoiselle; man; men; monsieur; pete; place; ranch; range; reckon; right; shot; snake; snow; solange; soldier; sucatash; thing; thought; time; trail; voice; wallace; way; wilding; years cache: 29028.txt plain text: 29028.txt item: #187 of 328 id: 29119 author: Garland, Hamlin title: They of the High Trails date: None words: 106687 flesch: 89 summary: She say you good man. It is a frightful risk, young man, but the trail to the glacier is your only open road. keywords: alice; away; bidwell; busby; cabin; camp; carmody; come; coroner; day; door; eyes; face; find; girl; good; hand; hanscom; head; heart; helen; home; horse; kauffman; kelley; kind; kitsong; life; like; look; man; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; need; new; old; outlaw; peggy; place; ranger; right; room; set; sheriff; stay; sure; thought; time; town; trail; valley; voice; ward; watson; way; wetherell; woman; word; work; young cache: 29119.txt plain text: 29119.txt item: #188 of 328 id: 29131 author: Bennet, Robert Ames title: Out of the Depths: A Romance of Reclamation date: None words: 89130 flesch: 92 summary: I wish you had been with me, to run down the scoundrel who tried to murder Mr. Ashton. I'll rope a couple of fresh hawsses, and go out with Mr. Ashton after the two-legged wolf. keywords: ashton; baby; blake; camp; cañon; chuckie; cowman; daddy; deep; dry; engineer; eyes; face; father; feet; genevieve; girl; going; good; gowan; half; hand; head; horse; isobel; kid; knowles; left; line; little; look; man; mesa; miss; mrs; place; pony; puncher; right; rock; rope; saddle; set; tell; thought; time; tom; water; way; wife; work cache: 29131.txt plain text: 29131.txt item: #189 of 328 id: 29406 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Country Beyond: A Romance of the Wilderness date: None words: 87418 flesch: 88 summary: Peter, all at once, had become interested in something else, and following the direction of his pointed nose Jolly Roger saw Nada standing quietly on the opposite side of the stream, looking at them. For their grief, in God's reckoning of things, was the same; and little Peter, sensing the greatness of this thing that had made them one in flesh and blood, snuggled his wiry face closer in her neck, crying softly to her, and content to die there close to the warmth of the creature he loved. keywords: arms; bird; body; breault; cabin; cassidy; darkness; day; door; eyes; face; father; fire; girl; god; hair; half; hand; hawkins; head; heart; jed; john; jolly roger; life; lips; man; master; mckay; moment; nada; night; peter; ridge; roger mckay; storm; sun; thing; time; voice; way; world; yellow cache: 29406.txt plain text: 29406.txt item: #190 of 328 id: 29407 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country date: None words: 75430 flesch: 90 summary: Personally, Kent did not feel like a dying man. But Kent possessed an unswerving passion to grip at facts in detail, a characteristic that had largely helped him to earn the reputation of being the best man-hunter in all the northland service. keywords: arms; away; cardigan; day; death; door; eyes; face; feet; fingers; girl; hair; half; hand; head; heart; jeems; kedsty; kent; life; lips; little; man; marette; mercer; moment; night; north; o'connor; river; room; saw; thing; thought; time; voice; way; window; years cache: 29407.txt plain text: 29407.txt item: #191 of 328 id: 29479 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Night Riders: A Romance of Early Montana date: None words: 112248 flesch: 90 summary: A good country that breeds good men, he nodded, with an expression that was almost a smile. Do you mean to tell me that men sit down quietly under such dastardly tyranny? keywords: anton; arizona; blind; dead; diane; door; eyes; face; father; feller; fer; foreman; fyles; girl; git; goin'; good; great; guess; half; hand; head; horse; jake; jest; joe; kind; left; life; little; look; man; manner; marbolt; mare; matter; mind; moment; place; prairie; ranch; rancher; red; right; round; saddle; set; sheriff; smile; tell; things; think; thought; time; tone; trail; tresler; voice; wal; way; words; work; wus cache: 29479.txt plain text: 29479.txt item: #192 of 328 id: 29485 author: Lewis, Alfred Henry title: Faro Nell and Her Friends: Wolfville Stories date: None words: 69463 flesch: 84 summary: He's p'intin' in from over Red Dog way, but I savvys from the wonderin' faces of them Red Dog sports that he's as new to them as us. 'Said banquet,' he explains, 'bein' in the nacher of a lunch to be held at high noon. keywords: ag'in; annalinda; bark; bein; bird; black; bland; boggs; book; bug; calls; camp; cherokee; chief; day; dead; doc; dog; drink; enright; evenin; eyes; feelin; folks; game; gent; goin'; good; gun; half; hand; havin'; head; heap; himse'f; house; jack; jennie; jest; licker; light; looks; love; makes; man; mebby; mighty; mike; missis; monte; moore; nell; nothin'; old; ontil; party; peets; person; plenty; plumb; professor; red; returns; round; rucker; sech; shore; shot; stage; texas; thar; time; track; tucson; turkey; turner; tutt; way; whar; wife; wolfville; yere cache: 29485.txt plain text: 29485.txt item: #193 of 328 id: 29571 author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) title: Nan of Music Mountain date: None words: 96455 flesch: 86 summary: Behind de Spain Nan stood waiting for her cousin to get beyond earshot. You will see, if an accident happens, that anything, everything I have--some personal property--my father's old ranch north of Medicine Bend--some little money in bank at Sleepy Cat--goes to my wife, Nan Morgan de Spain. keywords: away; bull; calabasas; cat; chance; day; de spain; door; duke; eyes; face; gale; gap; girl; good; half; hand; head; henry de; home; horse; jeffries; john; lefever; left; life; look; man; mcalpin; men; moment; morgan; morning; mountain; music; nan morgan; night; open; place; rifle; room; saddle; sandusky; sassoon; saw; scott; shot; stage; stood; story; thought; time; town; trail; uncle; way; words cache: 29571.txt plain text: 29571.txt item: #194 of 328 id: 29572 author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) title: Whispering Smith date: None words: 97151 flesch: 88 summary: In handling a wreck Sinclair was a marvel among mountain men. Then the master of mountain men, grizzled and brown, turned his eyes again to the bed. keywords: away; bend; bill; bucks; cache; country; creek; dancing; day; dicksie; division; door; dunning; eyes; face; george; good; half; hand; hat; head; help; horse; kennedy; lance; left; life; line; look; man; marion; mccloud; medicine; men; moment; mountains; new; railroad; ranch; rebstock; ride; riding; right; river; rode; room; run; saddle; sang; sinclair; smith; stone; story; table; tell; thing; time; trouble; valley; water; way; whispering; whispering smith; work; young cache: 29572.txt plain text: 29572.txt item: #195 of 328 id: 29580 author: Bower, B. M. title: Rim o' the World date: None words: 87867 flesch: 89 summary: But the piano--well, the piano was for Mary Hope Douglas, and Mary Hope Douglas did not mean to be patronized in this manner by Lance Lorrigan or any of his kin. And since old Tom Lorrigan had left him a mere forty thousand--according to the appraisers of the Devil's Tooth estate--young Tom had a long way to go to see his dream a reality. keywords: belle; belle lorrigan; black; boys; coaley; corral; country; cow; dad; day; devil; door; douglas; duke; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; half; hand; hat; head; home; horse; lance; lance lorrigan; left; life; look; lorrigan; love; man; mary hope; men; money; mother; outfit; piano; place; pretty; ranch; ride; right; rim; sam; schoolhouse; scotty; set; story; tell; things; thought; time; tom; tom lorrigan; tooth; trail; voice; way; young; yuh cache: 29580.txt plain text: 29580.txt item: #196 of 328 id: 29602 author: Roberts, James title: The Coyote A Western Story date: None words: 67630 flesch: 92 summary: When they were outside Rathburn directed Sautee across the street. He saw Rathburn yawning, as the boot dropped on the floor. keywords: away; boy; carlisle; coyote; desert; doane; door; eagen; eyes; face; girl; good; gun; hand; horse; lamy; left; long; look; mallory; man; mannix; men; money; place; rathburn; right; room; sautee; sheriff; thought; time; town; trail; voice; way cache: 29602.txt plain text: 29602.txt item: #197 of 328 id: 29628 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Golden Woman: A Story of the Montana Hills date: None words: 123001 flesch: 90 summary: Strong man that he was he had been wholly unaware of the distance he had carried her. Strong man as he was, something of his strength had been undermined by the weary draining of those years. keywords: aunt; beasley; buck; camp; day; death; disaster; eyes; face; farm; fer; fire; gal; girl; git; goin'; gold; good; guess; half; hand; head; heart; help; hill; hope; horse; ike; jest; joan; left; life; little; look; love; luck; man; manner; mercy; mind; moment; nature; need; padre; pete; place; right; sar; set; smile; storm; tell; ther; things; thought; time; trail; voice; way; woman; words; world; years cache: 29628.txt plain text: 29628.txt item: #198 of 328 id: 29642 author: Coolidge, Dane title: Hidden Water date: None words: 110128 flesch: 83 summary: Old Winship married her back in St. Louie and brought her out here to slave around cookin' for _rodér_ hands, and she wanted her daughters to live different. She wouldn't stand for no bow-legged cowpuncher--and ye can't blame her none, the way old man Winship used to make her cook for them _rodéo_ hands--but Sallie would've answered them letters if she'd got 'em. keywords: 'em; bill; black; boss; camp; cattle; cañon; country; course; creede; day; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; git; god; goin'; good; grass; hand; hardy; head; heart; hell; herd; high; horse; jeff; jest; jim; judge; kitty; lay; look; love; lucy; man; matter; men; mesa; miss; moment; peaks; ranch; range; right; river; rocks; rufus; saw; sheep; sheepman; stood; swope; talk; think; thought; time; trail; voice; ware; water; way; white; world; years cache: 29642.txt plain text: 29642.txt item: #199 of 328 id: 29656 author: Spearman, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) title: The Mountain Divide date: None words: 56434 flesch: 82 summary: Railroad men themselves, hearing the mutterings, brought word of them to head-quarters, but Stanley was in no wise disturbed. Railroad men who came running from the station to help were too late. keywords: bend; bill; bob; bob scott; boy; bucks; camp; creek; dancing; despatcher; door; engine; eyes; fire; good; half; hand; hawk; head; horses; indians; levake; like; long; man; medicine; men; moment; new; night; operator; party; railroad; railroad men; river; room; scott; stanley; station; street; time; train; way cache: 29656.txt plain text: 29656.txt item: #200 of 328 id: 29668 author: Ogden, George W. (George Washington) title: The Flockmaster of Poison Creek date: None words: 85612 flesch: 85 summary: Sullivan told me him and old man Reid had made an agreement concerning the young folks, Mackenzie returned, a sickness of dread over him for what he believed he was about to hear. So John Mackenzie had put his foot upon the road. keywords: 'em; camp; carlson; country; dad; day; dogs; door; eyes; face; feet; going; good; hall; hand; head; heart; horse; joan; john; john mackenzie; lay; left; life; look; mackenzie; man; mary; moment; place; rabbit; range; reid; right; sheep; sullivan; swan; swan carlson; thought; tim; time; voice; wagon; want; way; woman; word; years cache: 29668.txt plain text: 29668.txt item: #201 of 328 id: 29748 author: Ogden, George W. (George Washington) title: The Duke Of Chimney Butte date: None words: 75415 flesch: 84 summary: Behind Lambert men were holding Tom Hargus, who had made a lunge to recover his gun. Older men spoke to him with respect, younger ones approached him with admiration, unable to understand what kind of a safety-valve a man had on his mouth that would keep his steam in when that Misery booze began to sizzle in his pipes. keywords: cattle; country; cut; day; door; duke; end; eyes; face; feet; feller; fence; fire; girl; glendora; good; grace; gun; hand; hargus; hat; head; heart; home; horse; jedlick; jim; kerr; lambert; life; look; love; man; men; miles; moment; philbrook; place; ranch; ride; right; road; saddle; set; story; taterleg; thought; time; train; vesta; way; whetstone; white; woman cache: 29748.txt plain text: 29748.txt item: #202 of 328 id: 29818 author: Norton, Roy title: The Plunderer date: None words: 66120 flesch: 89 summary: He stopped for a moment and peered at other men who were passing them. Good men are scarce. keywords: air; bells; bill; bully; camp; come; croix; cross; d'or; day; dick; door; eyes; face; father; feet; find; foot; good; ground; half; hand; head; high; house; joan; lily; little; look; man; men; mill; miner; money; new; partners; pay; place; presby; rattler; right; road; rock; shaft; time; townsend; trail; voice; water; way; white; words; work; years cache: 29818.txt plain text: 29818.txt item: #203 of 328 id: 30113 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The One-Way Trail: A story of the cattle country date: None words: 114836 flesch: 92 summary: It was for Jim Elia was doing it. Eh? But Jim Thorpe had no further comment to offer. keywords: annie; barnriff; boy; cattle; crombie; day; doc; doctor; elia; eve; eyes; face; folks; gay; girl; gold; good; guess; hand; head; heart; help; henderson; horse; jim; jim thorpe; know; left; life; like; little; look; love; man; mean; mind; moment; need; peter; place; right; room; round; saloon; saw; set; smallbones; smile; tell; things; thought; time; village; voice; want; way; woman; words; work cache: 30113.txt plain text: 30113.txt item: #204 of 328 id: 30224 author: Brodhead, Eva Wilder title: A Prairie Infanta date: None words: 20288 flesch: 87 summary: And I aint going to tell her! Miss Jane, Miss Jane, don't you see you're doing the girl a real injury in letting her regard you, her true benefactor, merely as the agent of her father's generosity? When I persuaded Miss Jane to take you, I couldn't foresee what hard luck I was going to strike, could I? keywords: ana; child; combs; day; doctor; eyes; face; father; girl; good; house; jane; keene; lola; man; mexican; miss; money; right; señora; things; thought; vigil; want cache: 30224.txt plain text: 30224.txt item: #205 of 328 id: 30313 author: Seton, Ernest Thompson title: The Preacher of Cedar Mountain: A Tale of the Open Country date: None words: 108901 flesch: 85 summary: But though Kitty would not marry him, she smiled on Kenna indulgently and thus it was that this man of brawn had far too much to say in shaping the life of little Jim Hartigan. Horses Jim surely understood. keywords: belle; bill; black; blazing; boy; business; cedar; chance; chapter; church; cloud; colonel; day; days; dollars; door; eyes; face; fire; fort; god; good; half; hand; hartigan; head; heart; help; hills; home; horse; indian; jebb; jim; jim hartigan; john; left; life; look; love; man; matter; men; mind; morning; mother; mountain; new; place; power; preacher; race; red; right; room; rover; saw; set; shay; squeaks; stable; star; talk; things; thought; time; town; trail; voice; want; way; white; wild; woman; words; work; world; year cache: 30313.txt plain text: 30313.txt item: #206 of 328 id: 30318 author: Garland, Hamlin title: Money Magic: A Novel date: None words: 105772 flesch: 87 summary: It was as lovely in color as a flower, a dream-girl, not Bertha Haney. The affection he had borne towards Alice Heath was but the violet ray of friendship compared to the lambent, leaping, red flame of his passion for Bertha Haney. keywords: alice; ben; bertha; business; captain; city; congdon; crego; day; dinner; door; eyes; face; fordyce; gambler; girl; going; good; hand; haney; heart; home; hotel; house; husband; kind; lay; life; little; look; love; lucius; man; mart; mean; mind; moment; money; moss; mother; mrs; need; new; people; place; right; room; rose; stay; talk; thing; thought; time; tis; town; voice; want; way; west; wife; wish; woman; work; world; young cache: 30318.txt plain text: 30318.txt item: #207 of 328 id: 30485 author: Ogden, George W. (George Washington) title: The Rustler of Wind River date: None words: 81230 flesch: 84 summary: Tell Chadron to send a wagon up here after these dead men, Macdonald said, leading a horse to the gate. Of course there was the exception of Nola Chadron, but she was not of Meander and the railroad's end, and she came only in flashes of summer brightness, like a swift, gay bird. keywords: alan; banjo; chadron; colonel; country; dalton; day; door; eyes; face; fire; frances; good; hair; hand; head; heart; home; horse; king; landcraft; life; little; low; macdonald; maggie; major; man; mark; matter; men; miss; moment; morning; mrs; night; nola; nola chadron; place; post; river; road; room; saul; saul chadron; sir; tell; thorn; time; voice; want; way; words cache: 30485.txt plain text: 30485.txt item: #208 of 328 id: 30558 author: Ogden, George W. (George Washington) title: Claim Number One date: None words: 90556 flesch: 84 summary: Agnes fired up her stove and sat by it, watching the eager sparks make their brave plunge into the vast night which so soon extinguished them, as the world engulfs and silences streams and clouds of little men who rush into it with a roar. I was just goin' to say, would you mind goin' inside and lettin' that doctor man take your place for a while? keywords: agnes; away; bentley; boyle; camp; case; chance; claim; comanche; country; day; days; doctor; eyes; face; good; governor; hand; head; heart; hope; horse; hun; jerry; june; land; life; look; man; matter; meander; men; mind; money; morning; mrs; night; number; office; people; peterson; place; river; shanklin; sheep; slavens; smith; son; stage; story; tent; thought; time; walker; want; way; woman; world cache: 30558.txt plain text: 30558.txt item: #209 of 328 id: 30567 author: Ogden, George W. (George Washington) title: The Bondboy date: None words: 119888 flesch: 84 summary: It was a thing which Ollie could not discuss with young Joe, a thing which only a sympathetic mother might have lightened the humiliation of or eased with tender counsel. Somebody, it appeared, had sinned against old Isom Chase at the end, and Joe Newbolt knew who that person was. keywords: alice; boy; chase; colonel; court; day; door; end; eyes; face; good; greening; hammer; hand; head; heart; house; isom; isom chase; joe; joe newbolt; judge; jury; kitchen; know; left; life; little; look; man; matter; maxwell; mind; moment; money; morgan; morning; mother; mrs; night; ollie; people; place; price; prosecutor; room; saw; set; sheriff; sol; son; table; tell; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 30567.txt plain text: 30567.txt item: #210 of 328 id: 30572 author: Coolidge, Dane title: Silver and Gold: A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp date: None words: 65903 flesch: 85 summary: But what do you think of our district, Mister--er---- Russell, said Denver promptly, my name is Denver Russell. The room was a large one, with a grand piano at one end and music and books strewn about; and as Bunker Hill shouted for his wife and daughter Denver stared about in astonishment. keywords: big; boy; broke; bunker; bunker hill; claim; come; copper; day; denver; dollars; drusilla; eyes; friend; gold; good; ground; gun; hand; head; heart; hill; hobo; house; look; looking; love; man; men; money; mother; murray; ore; professor; right; rock; silver; thought; time; trail; way; work cache: 30572.txt plain text: 30572.txt item: #211 of 328 id: 30574 author: Coolidge, Dane title: Shadow Mountain date: None words: 76311 flesch: 87 summary: Who is this Mr. Wiley? Why--er--Wiley; Wiley Holman, you know. Mr. Holman, spoke up the Colonel, as Wiley did not stir, may I ask you to come out here and explain? There was a rustle inside the cave and at last Wiley came out, stuffing a strip of dried meat into his hip pocket. keywords: blount; business; charley; colonel; course; day; death; dollars; eyes; father; george; going; good; gun; hand; head; house; huff; john; look; man; men; money; mother; neck; ore; paymaster; right; sand; stock; thought; time; town; trail; valley; virginia; water; way; widow; wiley; wiley holman cache: 30574.txt plain text: 30574.txt item: #212 of 328 id: 30578 author: Coolidge, Dane title: Wunpost date: None words: 71754 flesch: 86 summary: So old Wunpost had been stung and called again by the redoubtable Judson Eells, and the bank had been proved to be perfectly sound and a credit to the community it served! It held the Willie Meena mine, which had lain there by the trail while thousands of adventurers hurried past; until at last Wunpost had stopped to examine it and had all but perished of thirst. keywords: away; bank; billy; blackwater; calhoun; campbell; canyon; claim; come; contract; day; dog; dollars; dusty; eells; eyes; face; father; find; gold; good; half; hand; head; indian; judson; left; look; lynch; man; money; mule; ore; rhodes; right; road; rose; thought; time; trail; want; wilhelmina; wunpost cache: 30578.txt plain text: 30578.txt item: #213 of 328 id: 30826 author: White, Stewart Edward title: Gold date: None words: 110659 flesch: 86 summary: Big men, little men, clean men, dirty men, shaggy men, shaven men, but all instinct with an eager life and energy I have never seen equalled. From time to time other men came in, singly or in couples, until probably twenty-five were gathered. keywords: air; bagsby; bar; black; boat; boys; business; california; camp; chapter; country; course; crowd; danny; day; days; diggings; dollars; don; dozen; dust; end; eyes; face; fact; fire; gaspar; going; gold; good; half; hand; head; high; horses; johnny; lay; left; let; look; looking; lot; man; matter; mcnally; men; miners; moment; money; morning; new; open; pay; people; place; randall; red; rest; right; river; saw; small; sort; street; talbot; things; thought; time; town; ward; water; way; white; work; yank cache: 30826.txt plain text: 30826.txt item: #214 of 328 id: 31512 author: Seltzer, Charles Alden title: The Coming of the Law date: None words: 77700 flesch: 83 summary: The appearance of young Hollis had been the result. Of their trouble with Dunlavey Hollis would hear much later, he told himself. keywords: allen; bar; cabin; cattle; chair; circle; circle bar; country; course; day; door; dry; dunlavey; eyes; face; good; hand; hazelton; hollis; judge; kicker; law; man; men; nellie; norton; office; pony; porch; potter; right; saw; sheriff; smile; spot; things; time; trail; voice; way; yuma cache: 31512.txt plain text: 31512.txt item: #215 of 328 id: 31524 author: McCarter, Margaret Hill title: The Price of the Prairie: A Story of Kansas date: None words: 148994 flesch: 88 summary: Best man ever went out to fight and never got back. Old men are prone to ramble in their stories, and I am not old. keywords: 'em; aunt; away; baronet; black; boy; boys; bud; business; cam; candace; care; claire; cliff; coming; conlow; dark; day; days; death; evening; eyes; face; father; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; home; house; indian; jean; john; judge; judson; kansas; know; land; lay; letter; lettie; life; look; love; man; mapleson; marjie; mead; men; mind; moment; morning; mother; mrs; neosho; night; o'mie; pahusca; phil; place; plains; prairie; rachel; red; river; springvale; story; tell; thing; thought; time; took; town; valley; voice; way; west; whately; white; woman; word; years cache: 31524.txt plain text: 31524.txt item: #216 of 328 id: 31699 author: Mulford, Clarence Edward title: "Bring Me His Ears" date: None words: 99453 flesch: 82 summary: Some said go _this_ way, some said to go _that_ way; others, _other_ ways. One o' us is bound ter git sight o' him, fer he'll shore go back by th' river; an' if thar's any place in this town keywords: 'em; air; animals; armijo; bank; bent; boat; boyd; buffalo; camp; captain; caravan; close; cooper; country; day; door; ears; eyes; face; feet; fer; fire; friends; fur; git; goin'; good; guard; half; hand; hank; head; horse; hyar; indians; joe; kin; know; leave; left; long; look; man; men; mexican; moment; mules; near; new; night; patience; pedro; place; prairie; reckon; rifle; river; santa; schoolcraft; shore; spring; tell; ter; ter git; ter th; thar; thee; thought; time; tom; trail; uncle; wagons; wall; want; war; water; way; woodson; yer cache: 31699.txt plain text: 31699.txt item: #217 of 328 id: 31778 author: Bixby, Jerome title: The Draw date: None words: 7450 flesch: 97 summary: Well, meet Buck Tarrant, who could outdraw them all. So that's Buck Tarrant--a halfsized, poisonous, no-good kid who wanted to be a hardcase. keywords: ben; buck; eyes; gun; hand; man; professor cache: 31778.txt plain text: 31778.txt item: #218 of 328 id: 31870 author: Marlowe, Amy Bell title: Frances of the Ranges; Or, The Old Ranchman's Treasure date: None words: 62143 flesch: 91 summary: Nothing had ever happened to Frances Rugley to really terrify her. But I haven't been used to seeing girls quite as independent as you are, Frances Rugley. keywords: amarillo; bar; boston; captain; chest; edwards; father; fellow; fire; frances; girl; good; head; house; latrop; like; m'gill; mack; man; miss; molly; mrs; pete; pony; pratt; pratt sanderson; ranch; ranchman; ranges; ratty; right; rugley; sam; sanderson; sue; thought; time; trail; treasure; wagon; way; young cache: 31870.txt plain text: 31870.txt item: #219 of 328 id: 32704 author: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove title: Stepsons of Light date: None words: 55725 flesch: 95 summary: And they knew that good men would be reading those tracks. You sure got to ride! Last man takes the leavings, said Johnny. keywords: adam; bar; big; caney; cattle; caã±on; charlie; court; cross; day; dines; door; eyes; face; find; fire; forbes; garfield; gold; good; gun; gwinne; hales; half; hand; head; herd; hillsboro; hobby; horse; jody; johnny; judge; little; look; lull; lyn; man; men; pete; redgate; right; road; round; saddle; tell; time; voice; wade; wagon; water; way; weir cache: 32704.txt plain text: 32704.txt item: #220 of 328 id: 33039 author: Mulford, Clarence Edward title: The Orphan date: None words: 83562 flesch: 89 summary: said Shields 192 The Orphan gives Blake Shields' note 214 The Orphan stepped back a pace and dropped the Colt into its holster 390 THE ORPHAN CHAPTER I THE SHERIFF RIDES TO WAR Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious reasons that was as far as the majority went to show their displeasure. Men have been killed for less than what you tried to do. keywords: away; bar-8; bill; blake; bud; charley; coach; come; country; cross; day; door; driver; eyes; face; foreman; friend; good; gun; half; hand; head; helen; house; humble; jim; left; life; look; man; men; new; orphan; outlaw; ranch; right; saw; sheriff; shields; shore; sneed; tell; tex; thought; time; trail; war; water; way; words cache: 33039.txt plain text: 33039.txt item: #221 of 328 id: 33066 author: Brand, Max title: The Garden of Eden date: None words: 76331 flesch: 92 summary: Connor found himself looking minutely at trivial things, and in the meantime David Eden in his room was deciding the fate of the American turf. She began to feel that Connor himself might have elements of the boy in his make up--the cruel boy which he protested was in David Eden. keywords: abraham; benjamin; connor; david; day; eden; elijah; eyes; face; gambler; garden; gate; girl; glani; god; going; good; gray; hand; head; heart; horse; joseph; little; look; man; master; men; mind; mountains; patio; room; ruth; saw; thing; time; townsend; valley; voice; way; words; world cache: 33066.txt plain text: 33066.txt item: #222 of 328 id: 33409 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge date: None words: 57925 flesch: 91 summary: That is just the point, Miss Jack, and what we have got to fight. Jack hurried Frank in near the fire. keywords: aunt; cousin; dan; day; eyes; face; frank; frieda; girls; head; home; house; indian; jack; jacqueline; jean; jim; laska; little; mrs; night; norton; olive; rainbow; ralston; ranch; ranch girls; ride; room; ruth; simpson; thought; time; way cache: 33409.txt plain text: 33409.txt item: #223 of 328 id: 33458 author: Garland, Hamlin title: The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop date: None words: 108826 flesch: 88 summary: Said Curtis: You will find in this camp the Tetong comparatively unchanged. King Frost's dominion was already complete over all the crests, over timber-line, when young Captain Curtis set out to cross the divide which lay between Lake Congar and Fort Sherman--a trip to test the virtue of a Sibley tent and the staying qualities of a mountain horse. keywords: agency; agent; big; brisbane; calvin; camp; captain; captain curtis; coming; curtis; cut; day; door; elk; elsie; eyes; face; father; finger; girl; going; good; hand; head; heart; horns; house; indian; jennie; lawson; left; life; like; little; look; man; maynard; men; miss; moment; morning; mrs; new; parker; people; red; right; room; sheriff; soldier; tetongs; thing; thought; time; voice; want; way; white; women; word; work; young cache: 33458.txt plain text: 33458.txt item: #224 of 328 id: 33498 author: Rhodes, Eugene Manlove title: Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus date: None words: 54448 flesch: 89 summary: Mr. Jeff Bransford was, as has been seen, an energetic man; but outraged nerves will have their revenge. I'll just play the sheriff isn't in the bunch and build my little bluff according to that pleasing fancy; for if he comes along it is all off with little Jeff! keywords: arcadia; bank; billy; black; books; bransford; charley; course; day; dust; ellinor; end; eohippus; eyes; face; find; gibson; girl; going; good; griffith; gun; half; hand; head; hoffman; home; horse; jeff; jeff bransford; jimmy; johnny; lake; lars; left; little; long; look; low; man; men; mind; miss; money; mountain; new; pappy; rainbow; right; road; rose; round; saddle; saw; sheriff; think; thought; time; tobe; water; way; white; young cache: 33498.txt plain text: 33498.txt item: #225 of 328 id: 33612 author: Chisholm, A. M. (Arthur Murray) title: The Land of Strong Men date: None words: 117422 flesch: 94 summary: Is it a boy or a girl? His real name is Torquil, young Angus explained, after my grandfather. Meanwhile, young Angus took up the burden of his responsibilities. keywords: angus; angus mackay; away; big; blake; boy; braden; brother; chetwood; course; day; deeds; eyes; face; faith; father; foley; french; garland; gavin; gerald; girl; going; good; gun; half; hand; head; hold; horse; jean; judge; kathleen; left; long; look; mackay; man; mean; men; mind; miss; moment; money; mrs; old; place; ranch; rennie; right; run; saw; shot; things; think; thought; time; trail; turkey; voice; want; water; winton; work; years; young cache: 33612.txt plain text: 33612.txt item: #226 of 328 id: 33656 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold date: None words: 59943 flesch: 84 summary: Carlos, look after Miss Jack and don't go out of sight. Only I suppose you saw poor Jack was crying when she went indoors, and she doesn't cry once in a thousand years, so I am sure she will have a headache in the morning and not be able to speak to you. keywords: carlos; colter; day; elizabeth; eyes; face; find; frank; frieda; girls; gold; good; harmon; head; home; jack; jean; jim; jim colter; lodge; long; man; mrs; new; night; olive; people; rainbow; ralph; ranch; ranch girls; ruth; thought; time; way cache: 33656.txt plain text: 33656.txt item: #227 of 328 id: 33884 author: Gates, Eleanor title: Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher date: None words: 62419 flesch: 99 summary: And _try_ t' git out another _EyeOpener_. Sam, I thought you _liked_ t' read liter'toor books. keywords: alec; answers; ast; bergin; big; billy; boston; boys; briggs; city; come; course; cupid; day; ev'ry; eyes; face; feller; fer; gal; git; goin'; good; haid; hairoil; hand; house; hull; kinda; little; look; lookin; macie; man; nothin'; ole; outen; parson; plumb; right; round; sewell; sheriff; shore; simpson; somethin'; things; time; town; turrible; wal; way; yas cache: 33884.txt plain text: 33884.txt item: #228 of 328 id: 34281 author: Pattullo, George title: The Sheriff of Badger: A Tale of the Southwest Borderland date: None words: 71099 flesch: 91 summary: Tell Lafe Johnson good-by for me, Moffatt said at departure. What's the matter, Mr. Lafe? she asked. keywords: badger; boss; boy; bud; buffalo; cattle; chapter; course; day; door; eyes; face; fashion; feller; floyd; going; good; gun; half; hand; head; hetty; home; horne; house; jeff; jim; johnson; lafe; lafe johnson; left; look; man; men; moffatt; mrs; ol'; place; right; room; run; sheriff; steve; talk; thought; time; town; vining; want; way; widow; wife; woman; work cache: 34281.txt plain text: 34281.txt item: #229 of 328 id: 34507 author: Hankins, Arthur Preston title: The Heritage of the Hills date: None words: 64523 flesch: 90 summary: It belongs to Mr. Oliver Drew, according to the recorder's office. It required many long minutes for the entire circle to complete the trip around the fire; and this continued on and on till the brain of Oliver Drew swam and the fire in reality took on the aspect of a tormenting, threatening ogre which this rite must crush. keywords: adam; answer; black; cabin; country; creek; dakas; dance; day; dead; digger; drew; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; foss; girl; hand; head; horse; ivison; jessamy; land; long; man; man selden; men; oakers; oliver; oliver drew; pence; place; poche; poison; right; saddle; selden; showut; spring; think; thought; time; water; way; white; years cache: 34507.txt plain text: 34507.txt item: #230 of 328 id: 34567 author: White, William Patterson title: Paradise Bend date: None words: 95133 flesch: 95 summary: I'll tell her I saw yuh, Mr. Loudon. Let me make yuh acquainted with Mr. Loudon, Scotty, continued Mrs. Burr. keywords: archer; away; bar; bend; blakely; block; burr; chuck; corral; day; door; eyes; face; friend; goin'; good; guess; half; hand; head; horse; hoss; johnny; judge; kate; know; laguerre; left; like; long; look; loudon; mace; mackenzie; man; marvin; men; mrs; nothin'; o'leary; ramsay; ranch; red; right; rudd; saddle; saltoun; scotty; sheriff; shore; street; telescope; tell; time; tom; tom loudon; yo're; yore; yuh; yuh shore cache: 34567.txt plain text: 34567.txt item: #231 of 328 id: 34826 author: White, William Patterson title: The Rider of Golden Bar date: None words: 99505 flesch: 95 summary: Said Billy Wingo to the fourth: Get down. Instantly she recalled what folks were saying of Jack Murray since it had become positively known that the party nomination for sheriff had gone to Billy Wingo, that Jack Murray had it in for Billy, that he had made threats more or less vague, and that he had taken to brooding over his fancied wrongs. keywords: 'em; attorney; billy; billy wingo; come; craft; dan; day; district; door; eyes; face; felix; girl; good; guerilla; hand; hazel; head; horse; jack; jane; judge; larder; left; li'l; look; man; men; money; murray; o'gorman; rafe; reelfoot; right; riley; sally; sam; saw; sheriff; simon; slike; table; tell; think; thought; time; tip; trail; tuckleton; walton; way; wingo cache: 34826.txt plain text: 34826.txt item: #232 of 328 id: 34928 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Ranch Girls at Home Again date: None words: 51461 flesch: 80 summary: Not many feet from the company of men Jack Ralston and Frank Kent were standing together talking of some detail in connection with the work, while Jim Colter was hanging over the pit opening in company with the men who had charge of the lowering and raising of the mine elevator. Jack kissed Ruth on the hair and then bent over and looked at the baby with a new expression of wonder and reverence. keywords: boy; carlos; colter; course; eyes; frank; frieda; friend; girl; home; house; indian; jack; jean; jim; kent; little; lodge; man; men; merrit; moment; new; olive; rainbow; ralph; ralston; ranch; ruth; things; time cache: 34928.txt plain text: 34928.txt item: #233 of 328 id: 34940 author: Merwin, Henry Childs title: The Life of Bret Harte, with Some Account of the California Pioneers date: None words: 118547 flesch: 68 summary: In a letter to a relative she wrote: He reminded me a good deal of our old pirate and bandit friend, Trelawney, though the latter was an almost orientally dark-complexioned man, and Mr. Bret Harte was comparatively fair. The youngest daughter, only ten years old, told her sister, in reference to some conversation Froude and I had, that 'she feared' (this child) 'that Mr. Bret Harte was inclined to be sceptical!' keywords: account; american; author; beauty; boston; boy; bret harte; brett; business; california; california life; case; character; children; city; colonel; country; course; day; days; death; dollars; early; east; editor; england; english; example; eyes; fact; family; father; feeling; feet; find; following; form; francisco; friend; gambling; gold; good; half; hand; head; henry; home; house; human; humor; james; john; kind; left; letter; life; literary; literature; little; london; man; manner; men; miles; miners; mining; money; mother; mrs; nature; new; night; office; people; pioneer; place; poems; point; reader; river; sacramento; san; san francisco; self; sense; society; son; spanish; state; stories; story; street; style; thing; time; type; united; way; western; wife; women; work; world; writer; years; york; young cache: 34940.txt plain text: 34940.txt item: #234 of 328 id: 34996 author: Kelly, Florence Finch title: The Delafield Affair date: None words: 86418 flesch: 85 summary: 308 It had come, the question she had meant not to let him ask 404 THE DELAFIELD AFFAIR CHAPTER I VENGEANCE AVOWED Curtis Conrad turned from superintending repairs on the adobe wall, and walked across the corral to the gate at the opposite side. But I like Curtis Conrad well enough, even if I'm not as young as you are and of your sex. keywords: aleck; arm; bancroft; baxter; betty; brown; conrad; curtis; curtis conrad; day; delafield; dent; eyes; face; father; gonzalez; good; half; hand; head; heart; homer; horse; jenkins; josé; life; little; look; love; lucy; man; mare; melgares; men; mexican; mind; miss; moment; money; ned; new; right; road; room; think; thought; time; way cache: 34996.txt plain text: 34996.txt item: #235 of 328 id: 35071 author: Goldfrap, John Henry title: The Boy Scouts on the Range date: None words: 51998 flesch: 87 summary: At last Rob gave the word. yelled Rob deliriously, as he hurled his slight form straight against the monstrous hairy tower of rugged strength. keywords: agent; bill; blinky; boy; boys; cattle; clark; cloud; cow; eyes; face; feet; good; great; harkness; harry; head; horse; indian; instant; jennings; man; mayberry; merritt; moquis; place; ponies; pony; punchers; ranch; ranger; right; rob; round; scouts; snake; thought; time; tubby; way; white; young cache: 35071.txt plain text: 35071.txt item: #236 of 328 id: 35866 author: Titus, Harold title: "I Conquered" date: None words: 69071 flesch: 90 summary: It was man to beast, and somewhere down yonder through the generations a dead racial memory came back and Young VB, girded for the conflict, ached to have his forest foe in reach, to have the fight run high, to have his chance to dare and do in fleshly struggle! Though his meetings with other men were few and scattered, VB was coming to be liked. keywords: away; big; boy; captain; close; country; danny; day; door; eyes; face; feet; gail; girl; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; jed; left; life; lips; look; low; man; men; mind; moment; neck; new; place; ranch; rhues; right; set; stallion; thing; thorpe; thought; throat; time; voice; words cache: 35866.txt plain text: 35866.txt item: #237 of 328 id: 36134 author: Coolidge, Dane title: Bat Wing Bowles date: None words: 67410 flesch: 87 summary: So she stabbed her neatly-trimmed little sombrero with a hatpin and waited for Mr. Bowles. Oh, how do they go? She knitted her brows and Mr. Bowles regarded her thoughtfully. keywords: atkins; big; boss; bowles; boys; brigham; buck; come; cook; course; cowboy; day; dixie; dixie lee; dunbar; eyes; face; fer; fire; git; good; gus; hand; head; henry; herd; horse; jack; lee; life; look; man; matter; men; mind; morning; mrs; new; old; place; ride; right; rope; smile; tell; time; way cache: 36134.txt plain text: 36134.txt item: #238 of 328 id: 36170 author: Cullum, Ridgwell title: The Son of his Father date: None words: 104378 flesch: 88 summary: Gordon Makes His Bid for Fortune XI Hazel Mallinsbee's Campaign XII Thinking Hard XIII Slosson Snatches at Opportunity XIV The Reward of Victory XV In Council XVI I have already learned that there are plenty of great men in the world whose existence I had never suspected. keywords: boy; buffalo; carbhoy; cigar; coal; come; dad; david; day; dollars; eyes; face; fall; father; feller; folks; girl; good; gordon; guess; half; hand; hazel; head; horse; know; land; laugh; left; life; mallinsbee; man; millionaire; mind; moment; nature; need; new; office; peter; place; play; point; pretty; railroad; ranch; right; set; sir; slosson; smile; snake; sort; talk; things; thought; time; way; work; world cache: 36170.txt plain text: 36170.txt item: #239 of 328 id: 36246 author: Ryan, Marah Ellis title: Told in the Hills: A Novel date: None words: 104255 flesch: 82 summary: and realize that other men can have! Jack turned on him like a flash. There are two classes of squaw men, as there are of other men on the frontier--the renegades and the usual percentage of honest and dishonest citizens. keywords: answer; bit; camp; country; day; door; eyes; face; find; fire; fred; genesee; girl; going; good; half; hand; hardy; head; hills; home; horse; indian; jack; jim; kalitan; kootenai; life; look; macdougall; man; men; miss; morning; mowitza; new; night; people; place; question; rachel; ranch; rest; snow; sort; speak; story; stuart; thing; thought; tillie; time; trail; voice; want; way; white; woman; words; work; young cache: 36246.txt plain text: 36246.txt item: #240 of 328 id: 36336 author: Harte, Bret title: Gabriel Conroy date: None words: 157056 flesch: 79 summary: Perhaps, Mr. Gabriel Conroy, said Jack, with sudden coolness and deliberation of speech, and a baleful light in his dark eyes, perhaps you'll be good enough to tell me what this means--what _is_ your little game? Philip Ashley, Gabriel Conroy, Peter Dumphy, Mrs. Jane Dumphy, she said at last. keywords: 12mo; 16mo; 8vo; arthur; brother; business; chapter; child; claim; colonel; conroy; course; dark; day; dead; devarges; dolores; donna; door; dumphy; edition; eyes; face; fact; father; feet; felipe; figure; friend; gabe; gabriel; gabriel conroy; gentleman; girl; good; grace; grace conroy; grant; gulch; half; hamlin; hand; head; help; hill; horse; hour; husband; jack; jest; lady; lawyer; left; life; like; little; look; looking; man; manner; maria; markle; maxwell; mind; moment; morning; mrs; nature; new; night; olly; paper; party; people; pete; philip; poinsett; ramirez; room; sal; san; self; sepulvida; sir; sister; smile; snow; starbottle; stranger; thar; thet; think; thought; time; victor; voice; vols; way; white; wife; witness; woman; years; yer cache: 36336.txt plain text: 36336.txt item: #241 of 328 id: 36523 author: Titus, Harold title: The Last Straw date: None words: 92305 flesch: 91 summary: He was saying slighting things about her and yet hoping that other men would speak about her highly! He'd have his stack on the table, an' the deal wouldn't be more than started! He talked over the loves of other men with those horses, earnestly, soberly. keywords: away; beck; bits; bobby; body; chance; cole; come; country; dick; eyes; face; girl; going; good; hand; head; hepburn; hilton; horse; hunter; jane; life; lips; look; love; ma'am; man; mckee; men; moment; night; place; ranch; reverend; slowly; talk; things; think; thought; time; tom; voice; want; water; way; webb; woman cache: 36523.txt plain text: 36523.txt item: #242 of 328 id: 36629 author: Parker, Frances title: Hope Hathaway: A Story of Western Ranch Life date: None words: 71704 flesch: 91 summary: You must trust me, for I am indeed your friend, little girl. She's used to it; besides she's not like other girls. keywords: away; bill; boy; boys; camp; clarice; dave; day; eyes; face; girl; goin'; good; hand; hathaway; head; home; hope; horse; jim; livingston; look; louisa; man; men; new; place; ranch; rensselaer; right; school; sheep; small; sydney; thing; thought; time; twin; van cache: 36629.txt plain text: 36629.txt item: #243 of 328 id: 36869 author: Lynde, Francis title: The Real Man date: None words: 94552 flesch: 83 summary: Your man Montague Smith is here, known as John Smith, secretary and treasurer Timanyoni High Line Company. I don't like your smug Middle-West civilization, Mr. Smith--it smothers me. keywords: away; baldwin; bank; big; brewster; business; camp; car; chair; chance; colonel; coming; company; corona; dam; day; door; end; eyes; face; father; good; half; hand; head; hold; house; jibbey; john; kinzie; lawrenceville; left; line; man; mean; men; miss; money; montague; new; night; office; place; president; railroad; richlander; river; set; smith; stand; stanton; starbuck; stock; talk; things; thought; timanyoni; time; town; train; verda; want; water; way; williams; woman; work cache: 36869.txt plain text: 36869.txt item: #244 of 328 id: 37249 author: Lynde, Francis title: The City of Numbered Days date: None words: 72893 flesch: 82 summary: I'll tell you, Mr. Brouillard--in confidence. Do you know what I'm thinking about, Mr. Brouillard? keywords: amy; away; bank; brouillard; buckskin; building; business; camp; chigringo; city; company; cortwright; dam; day; desk; end; engineer; eyes; face; father; going; gold; good; government; grislow; half; hands; harlan; head; light; little; love; making; man; massingale; men; mirapolis; miss; money; mountain; new; niquoia; office; people; place; power; railroad; reclamation; service; stock; street; thing; time; town; turn; valley; victor; way; woman; word; work; young cache: 37249.txt plain text: 37249.txt item: #245 of 328 id: 37271 author: Vandercook, Margaret title: The Ranch Girls and Their Heart's Desire date: None words: 44801 flesch: 78 summary: It was so strange and so unexpected that at present Jack herself was scarcely able to accept the momentous fact. I agree with you, Frieda, I wish Jack _had_ stayed at home this afternoon. keywords: afternoon; colter; family; frieda; girls; good; home; house; jack; jacqueline; jean; jim; jimmie; kent; lodge; marshall; mrs; olive; present; rainbow; rainbow ranch; ralph; ranch; time; woman cache: 37271.txt plain text: 37271.txt item: #246 of 328 id: 37415 author: King, Charles title: Trumpeter Fred: A Story of the Plains date: None words: 20859 flesch: 79 summary: That night, with a week's furlough and a letter from his post commander to Major Edwards at Sidney, old Sergeant Waller was jolting eastward in the caboose of a freight train. Even the hulking squaws and old men loafing about the Agency store-houses were silent, and patiently waiting for the coming of the clerk with his keys of office. keywords: blunt; boy; captain; charlton; dawson; eyes; face; fred; hand; horse; indian; lieutenant; man; men; night; platte; sergeant; sidney; sir; time; troop; waller cache: 37415.txt plain text: 37415.txt item: #247 of 328 id: 37492 author: Brady, Cyrus Townsend title: The Chalice Of Courage: A Romance of Colorado date: None words: 80733 flesch: 81 summary: No men there in those days pried into the business of other men too closely. It's no use, old man, I am going and that's all there is about it. keywords: armstrong; body; camp; cañon; course; day; dead; door; enid; enid maitland; eyes; face; feet; fire; foot; girl; god; going; good; hand; head; heart; human; kirkby; left; life; look; love; maitland; man; men; moment; morning; mountains; newbold; night; range; robert; room; snow; things; thought; time; water; way; wife; woman cache: 37492.txt plain text: 37492.txt item: #248 of 328 id: 37688 author: King, Charles title: A Trooper Galahad date: None words: 60033 flesch: 76 summary: The only thing actually known was that Mrs. Winn and Captain Barclay were going out riding at reveille, that Winn surprised them and knocked the captain down, that Winn was now in close arrest, Barclay on the mend and again sitting up, Mrs. Winn confined by illness to her bed, Mrs. Faulkner (a most important person she) in devoted attendance, all their differences forgiven if not forgotten,--and there were few Mrs. Faulkner would not have forgiven for the bliss of being for the time the most sought-after woman at Worth, for every one wanted to know how Mrs. Winn was every hour of the day, and hoped to hear what dreadful imprudence of hers it was that caused the equally dreadful fracas. With the kindest feeling for her in the world, as all the women avowed, and no animosity whatever towards Barclay over and beyond that feeling on poor Colonel Lawrence's account, there was the liveliest interest at Worth as regarded Mrs. Winn and Captain Barclay in seeing what they would do; and, to the disappointment of all Fort Worth, they had done nothing. keywords: army; away; barclay; blythe; brayton; brooks; captain; captain barclay; cavalry; colonel; come; coming; days; doctor; door; eyes; face; frazier; fuller; good; half; head; hodge; home; horses; laura; lawrence; left; lieutenant; life; like; little; major; man; men; moment; money; mrs; mullane; new; night; officers; post; quarters; room; san; sergeant; tell; thought; time; troop; wife; winn; women; worth; years cache: 37688.txt plain text: 37688.txt item: #249 of 328 id: 37943 author: Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) title: The Pike's Peak Rush; Or, Terry in the New Gold Fields date: None words: 63125 flesch: 94 summary: Terry Makes a Deal 233 XXII. At the near or left of Jenny strode Harry, with a slight limp, a willow pole in his hand to serve for occasionally touching up Duke. keywords: boys; buffalo; camp; cart; claim; come; creek; day; diggin; dirt; duke; dust; george; gold; good; gregory; gulch; half; harry; head; ike; jenny; left; man; men; new; pan; pat; peak; people; pike; right; shep; sluice; sol; terry; time; trail; virgie; wagon; water; way; work cache: 37943.txt plain text: 37943.txt item: #250 of 328 id: 38018 author: Roy, Lillian Elizabeth title: Girl Scouts in the Rockies date: None words: 53661 flesch: 84 summary: This started an animated argument between Mr. Gilroy and the Scout Leader, which was suddenly hushed by the behavior of the buck. Now, being girl scouts, you will naturally wear the approved scout uniform. keywords: bear; camp; canoe; captain; chief; day; feet; fire; gilroy; girls; going; good; guide; head; horses; indian; joan; jolt; julie; left; little; long; maiden; man; mountain; mrs; night; omney; park; party; peak; place; rockies; scouts; tally; thought; time; trail; trip; vernon; water; way cache: 38018.txt plain text: 38018.txt item: #251 of 328 id: 38019 author: Rice, Alfred Ernest title: An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West date: None words: 78699 flesch: 81 summary: Intensely interested, neither of them noticed Sam Harris approach, and with him the little Scotch terrier, which had completely recovered from its painful experience on the launch at Ross Island. He delivered one of the letters which he held in his hand to Hazel, and then said: The other letter is for Miss Virginia Thorpe, which the housekeeper at Mr. Thorpe's home, where he had first enquired for Miss Brooke, had asked him to deliver at Rosemont, too. keywords: arms; ave; cabin; child; close; come; constance; continued; corway; dear; detective; door; dorothy; eesa; eyes; face; feet; girl; god; good; hand; harris; hazel; head; heart; home; house; jack; john; know; left; lips; look; lord; man; mind; moment; mrs; night; room; rutley; sam; saw; smile; smith; steps; sure; table; thorpe; thought; time; virginia; voice; yees cache: 38019.txt plain text: 38019.txt item: #252 of 328 id: 38234 author: Mulford, Clarence Edward title: Hopalong Cassidy date: None words: 94638 flesch: 91 summary: At th' bottom of th' trail, an' th' spring is on top, Antonio replied. I am 'that fool, Antonio,' on th' ranch. keywords: 'em; antonio; away; bar-20; buck; close; come; cows; curley; day; doc; eyes; face; foreman; good; gun; hand; head; herd; hopalong; house; johnny; like; line; look; man; meeker; men; mesa; pete; ranch; range; reckon; red; ride; rifle; right; saddle; saw; shaw; shore; shot; skinny; tell; thought; time; trail; water; yo're; yore cache: 38234.txt plain text: 38234.txt item: #253 of 328 id: 38551 author: Gilman, Charlotte Perkins title: The Crux: A Novel date: None words: 55069 flesch: 86 summary: Said I got drunk, I warrant! For the past five years, Mrs. Pettigrew had made her home with the Lanes. keywords: bellair; cloud; come; dear; doctor; dykeman; elder; eyes; face; friend; girl; good; grandma; hale; heart; home; house; lady; lane; life; man; men; mind; miss; morton; mrs; new; orella; pettigrew; right; room; skee; susie; think; thought; time; vivian; woman; years cache: 38551.txt plain text: 38551.txt item: #254 of 328 id: 39056 author: Titus, Harold title: Bruce of the Circle A date: None words: 74362 flesch: 87 summary: She heard voices and footsteps as other men ran up. I will trust to other men to judge between us-- Then, I won't! keywords: abe; ann; bayard; benny; bruce; bruce bayard; come; day; door; eyes; face; girl; goin'; good; hand; head; heart; help; horse; husband; kind; left; life; lips; look; love; lytton; ma'am; man; mind; moment; ned; new; nora; place; right; room; set; thing; thought; time; town; valley; voice; want; way; wife; woman; words; yavapai cache: 39056.txt plain text: 39056.txt item: #255 of 328 id: 39094 author: Webster, Frank V. title: Two Boy Gold Miners; Or, Lost in the Mountains date: None words: 44739 flesch: 95 summary: yelled Jed, capering about. yelled Jed. keywords: boys; brother; camp; crosby; day; farm; gabe; gold; good; harrison; horse; jed; look; man; men; miner; money; place; rain; right; time; trail; way; work cache: 39094.txt plain text: 39094.txt item: #256 of 328 id: 39237 author: Micheaux, Oscar title: The Conquest: The Story of a Negro Pioneer date: None words: 82921 flesch: 75 summary: My mother was a shouting Methodist and many times we children would slip quietly out of the church when she began to get happy. There were many good business men in Amro, among them young men of sterling qualities, college-bred, ambitious and with dreams of great success and of establishing themselves securely. keywords: amro; away; bank; building; business; calias; chicago; city; claim; company; county; crow; dakota; day; days; dollars; ernest; father; getting; good; great; home; house; land; left; letter; life; line; little; man; megory; men; miles; money; morning; mrs; new; nicholson; night; office; oristown; orlean; people; place; race; railroad; reverend; road; south; state; thought; time; town; way; west; white; wife; work; years cache: 39237.txt plain text: 39237.txt item: #257 of 328 id: 39238 author: Micheaux, Oscar title: The Homesteader: A Novel date: None words: 147207 flesch: 87 summary: We know by the shortage of crops Jean Baptiste had raised that such had been so. I want you, Miss Stewart, she said with much ostentation, to meet one of our neighbors and friends; one of the most enterprising young men of the country, Mr. Jean Baptiste. keywords: agnes; away; baptiste; chicago; country; course; daughter; day; days; dear; door; elder; ethel; eyes; face; fact; father; girl; glavis; good; great; hand; home; house; husband; jean baptiste; land; law; left; life; love; man; mccarthy; mind; moment; mother; mrs; orlean; papa; people; place; reverend; right; room; thought; time; town; voice; way; west; wife; woman; years cache: 39238.txt plain text: 39238.txt item: #258 of 328 id: 39433 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends date: None words: 73029 flesch: 91 summary: Bill let Frank alone until after dinner. Throughout the night Frank Merriwell lay ensconced behind some sheltering rocks in a deep ravine, where he had been trapped by the ruffians in the employ of the mining trust, who were determined to wrest from him the precious papers they believed to be in his possession. keywords: arlington; bart; big; bill; boxer; boy; burt; burt l.; cimarron; dog; door; eyes; face; fellow; frank; frank merriwell; girl; good; hand; head; heap; horse; joe; june; know; little; look; man; manner; men; merriwell; merry; monte; pablo; place; ready; right; room; ruffians; saw; shoot; standish; sure; time; tracy; way; young cache: 39433.txt plain text: 39433.txt item: #259 of 328 id: 39599 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: The Little Colonel in Arizona date: None words: 72584 flesch: 86 summary: There is little time for fishing now, You must take father's place behind the plough.' Mrs. Walton had spoken truly when she said that Little girls begin very early sometimes to dream about that far-away land of Romance. keywords: bees; book; boy; coming; day; days; desert; door; ellestad; eyes; face; girl; good; half; head; holland; home; house; indian; jack; joyce; lee; left; life; lloyd; look; mary; morning; mother; mrs; new; people; phil; place; pony; ranch; right; road; room; school; story; tent; things; think; thought; time; want; ware; water; way; white; wigwam; work cache: 39599.txt plain text: 39599.txt item: #260 of 328 id: 39937 author: Hooker, Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) title: The Long Dim Trail date: None words: 111798 flesch: 86 summary: She saw him jump from his horse and knock at the door--Saw Powell open that door, and then--she saw a tiny red stream trickling across the wooden floor. I'm sorry I spoke, old man, answered the doctor. keywords: arizona; boss; boy; boys; bronco; cattle; cañon; chappo; child; cross; day; diamond; doctor; doctor powell; donnie; door; eyes; face; feet; glendon; good; hand; hasayampa; head; holy; home; horse; husband; jack; juan; katherine; king; left; life; limber; look; man; men; mexican; money; mother; mrs; nell; paddy; peanut; place; pony; powell; ranch; right; roarer; room; saddle; saw; springs; thar; thought; time; town; trail; traynor; voice; walton; way; white; wife; willcox; woman; work; years cache: 39937.txt plain text: 39937.txt item: #261 of 328 id: 40038 author: Striker, Fran title: The Lone Ranger Rides date: None words: 64409 flesch: 93 summary: Come back with more men--learn what's going on at the Cavendish place. She frequently felt the eyes of Yuma, standing unhatted with a number of other men, upon her, but each time she looked at the blond cowboy he was staring at the ground. keywords: basin; bryant; cavendish; door; eyes; face; gimlet; girl; hand; head; horse; indian; know; left; lone; lone ranger; lonergan; man; men; mort; penelope; penny; ranger; rangoon; right; room; saw; silver; tell; things; time; tuh; uncle; vince; voice; wallie; way; white; yuh; yuma cache: 40038.txt plain text: 40038.txt item: #262 of 328 id: 40219 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War date: None words: 82931 flesch: 75 summary: I can act and think like other men? The poor slave had never been so happy; never had the air seemed to him purer, or nature more lovely--everything smiled on him, and made holiday for him, for that moment he was about to begin really living the life of other men, without any bitter afterthought; the past was no more than a dream. keywords: american; black; breed; brother; canadian; captain; carmela; chief; day; desert; eyes; face; father; fear; fire; friend; glance; good; great; ground; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hunter; indian; jaguar; john; know; lanzi; left; length; life; man; men; moment; monk; order; quoniam; rifle; right; soldier; time; tranquil; voice; way; words cache: 40219.txt plain text: 40219.txt item: #263 of 328 id: 40262 author: Standish, Burt L. title: Frank Merriwell's Triumph; Or, The Disappearance of Felicia date: None words: 89919 flesch: 91 summary: Steady, Brad, old man! warned Dick. Some of them had bad records, and yet they had served Frank Merriwell faithfully in guarding his mine, the Queen Mystery, against those who tried to wrest it from him by force and fraud. keywords: abe; bart; boy; brad; brother; buckhart; cap'n; curry; dan; dick; door; eyes; face; felicia; find; frank; good; hand; head; hodge; horse; joe; little; look; man; mebbe; men; merriwell; merry; morgan; place; right; room; ruffians; sailor; tell; think; thought; time; valley; voice; way; wiley; yer; yere cache: 40262.txt plain text: 40262.txt item: #264 of 328 id: 40602 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Freebooters: A Story of the Texan War date: None words: 102532 flesch: 74 summary: That is true, Señorita; but pray excuse him, he is an old sailor, but little accustomed to society--he felt embarrassed and almost in his wrong place with you; but few men know their profession so well as he, or are so firm and intrepid in danger. All these men, on reaching certain grades, merely change their uniform, while retaining in the new rank where accident places them their vices and low habits; hence young men of good family are not at all inclined to accept an epaulette, and despise a profession regarded with so little honour by the respectable classes of society. keywords: arms; black; blue; brig; canadian; captain; carmela; chief; colonel; commandant; comrades; corvette; davis; day; don; eyes; face; father; fire; fox; friend; general; glance; good; hacienda; half; hand; head; heart; hunter; indian; jaguar; length; life; man; men; mexican; minutes; moment; monk; night; officers; order; place; round; scalper; silence; time; tranquil; tree; voice; way; white; young cache: 40602.txt plain text: 40602.txt item: #265 of 328 id: 4082 author: Beach, Rex title: The Barrier date: None words: 91365 flesch: 88 summary: Other men will come--a great many of them? Other men had no such scruples in this or any other land, and yet the young man hesitated until, encouraged by his silence, the girl came forward and spoke again, impulsively: Don't be silly, Mr. Burrell. keywords: alluna; away; blood; burrell; camp; course; creek; dat; day; don; door; doret; eyes; face; father; gale; girl; goin'; good; half; hand; head; kind; lee; lieutenant; life; little; long; look; love; man; marry; men; mind; moment; necia; new; night; people; place; poleon; river; runnion; saw; soldier; stark; talk; thing; thought; time; trader; voice; woman; words; years cache: 4082.txt plain text: 4082.txt item: #266 of 328 id: 41172 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The White Scalper: A Story of the Texan War date: None words: 97156 flesch: 74 summary: Oh, he continued, pretending to be mistaken as to the impression he produced; excuse me, Colonel, for speaking in this way, but I love Doña Carmela so dearly that I love all she loves; though old men are egotistic, as you are aware, I have been busy on your behalf during my absence. Almost immediately he noticed several men coming gently up; they were four in number, as he soon made out, and carrying a fifth in their arms. keywords: american; army; black; brother; carmela; chief; colonel; comanches; davis; day; deer; enemy; face; father; fox; friend; general; good; hand; head; heart; hope; horse; hunter; indians; jaguar; john; left; life; man; men; mexican; minutes; moment; order; place; rancho; return; right; sandoval; scalper; smile; time; tranquil; village; voice; warriors; way; white; word cache: 41172.txt plain text: 41172.txt item: #267 of 328 id: 41177 author: Remington, Frederic title: John Ermine of the Yellowstone date: None words: 66614 flesch: 85 summary: He would then depart for the Indian country, which was almost totally unknown to the mining people, and was often followed as far as white men dared to go. He heard reports that the miners were invading the Sioux territory from the south; he knew gold, and he knew white men, and he realized what the combination always produced. keywords: absaroke; bear; big; boy; buffalo; butler; camp; captain; come; day; dogs; ermine; eyes; father; fire; girl; good; gun; hair; half; hand; harding; head; horse; indians; john; lewis; life; major; man; men; mind; miss; morning; new; night; people; ponies; pony; rode; saw; scout; searles; sioux; soldiers; sun; thing; thought; time; voice; war; way; weasel; white; wolf; woman cache: 41177.txt plain text: 41177.txt item: #268 of 328 id: 41529 author: Barnes, Will C. (Will Croft) title: Tales from the X-bar Horse Camp: The Blue-Roan "Outlaw" and Other Stories date: None words: 63311 flesch: 81 summary: Old man phoned me to get over there as soon as ever I could and lend a hand. Old man Barker and a detective from Denver had each testified to finding the hide of a yearling bearing Barker's well-known brand, buried beneath a pile of brush on Morrow's dry farm claim. keywords: animal; bein; big; billy; blue; boss; boys; bunch; camp; cattle; cañon; cliff; cut; day; eyes; feet; fer; fire; git; good; ground; half; hand; head; herd; horse; illustration; jist; kid; left; little; look; man; men; miles; night; outfit; pack; place; pony; range; river; roan; rope; saddle; ses; sheep; sort; steers; tell; time; town; trail; wagon; water; way; work cache: 41529.txt plain text: 41529.txt item: #269 of 328 id: 41802 author: Castlemon, Harry title: Frank in the Mountains date: None words: 53588 flesch: 80 summary: Frank Learns Something 34 CHAPTER IV. Frank's Friend the Grizzly 123 CHAPTER IX. keywords: adam; archie; bill; black; bob; camp; cave; chief; dick; fire; fort; frank; good; ground; hand; head; indians; man; mountains; outlaw; rifle; thing; thought; time; trappers; way cache: 41802.txt plain text: 41802.txt item: #270 of 328 id: 42115 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Trail-Hunter: A Tale of the Far West date: None words: 103689 flesch: 81 summary: He was a man of thirty at the most, with masculine and expressive features; his face possessed a remarkable intelligence, and was stamped with that natural majesty found among the savage children of the prairie; he was tall and well built; and his muscular limbs evidenced a vigour and suppleness against which few men would have contended with advantage. Don Miguel descended in a straight line from Acamarichtzin, first king of Mexico, whose name had been preserved in the family as a precious relic. keywords: ambrosio; andrés; brother; cedar; chief; clara; comanches; curumilla; desert; don; don miguel; doña; eyes; face; father; fray; friend; general; glance; good; governor; hacendero; hand; head; heart; horse; hunters; indian; leave; left; life; man; men; mexican; miguel; missionary; moment; monk; night; order; pablo; place; red; rose; round; seraphin; squatter; stranger; time; unicorn; valentine; voice; way; wish; words cache: 42115.txt plain text: 42115.txt item: #271 of 328 id: 42117 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Pirates of the Prairies: Adventures in the American Desert date: None words: 87112 flesch: 80 summary: For a stranger, Don Valentine, Bloodson remarked, you were well acquainted with the history of this country. I resign myself to inaction; carry out your schemes as you think proper, Don Valentine. keywords: apaches; black; bloodson; brother; cat; cedar; chief; clara; curumilla; daughter; desert; don; doña; ellen; enemies; father; fire; friend; girl; glance; good; ground; hand; head; heart; horses; hunter; indian; left; life; man; miguel; moment; order; pablo; red; squatter; time; valentine; village; voice; warriors; white; words; young cache: 42117.txt plain text: 42117.txt item: #272 of 328 id: 42119 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Trapper's Daughter: A Story of the Rocky Mountains date: None words: 103352 flesch: 81 summary: Does he bring me the number of young men I asked of the nation? I remember nothing further; men resembling demons rushed into the hacienda, seized my sister and myself, and set out at the full speed of their horses. keywords: bloodson; brother; camp; cedar; chief; don; ellen; eyes; face; father; find; friend; gazelle; girl; good; great; hand; head; heart; hour; hunter; indian; left; life; man; miguel; moment; monk; mother; nathan; night; pablo; red; round; seraphin; son; squatter; time; unicorn; valentine; voice; way; white; words; young cache: 42119.txt plain text: 42119.txt item: #273 of 328 id: 42268 author: Townshend, R. B. (Richard Baxter) title: Lone Pine: The Story of a Lost Mine date: None words: 121020 flesch: 85 summary: He grasped Stephens hand warmly, sprang to his saddle, and was presently galloping for the Rio Grande. The eleven Indians were the first Navajos Stephens had ever seen, and he eyed them with no little curiosity. keywords: american; backus; boy; cacique; day; dead; dollars; don; door; estevan; eyes; face; father; felipe; fire; girl; going; good; half; hand; head; heart; horse; indian; josefa; left; like; look; mahletonkwa; man; manuelita; mare; matter; men; mexican; mind; moment; navajos; nepomuceno; new; people; place; prospector; pueblo; rifle; right; rocky; room; round; saddle; salvador; santiago; shot; silver; stephens; thing; thought; time; tito; trail; voice; way; work; young cache: 42268.txt plain text: 42268.txt item: #274 of 328 id: 42308 author: Clifford, Josephine title: Overland Tales date: None words: 126734 flesch: 73 summary: We rode through the field the Indians cultivate, and irrigate from the Gila river, by means of _acequias_ dug through their lands in all directions. And old man Sutton tipped back his chair, after filling his pipe, and looked contentedly up at the white ceiling of the best room. keywords: black; brother; camp; captain; child; clara; close; coming; country; dark; day; days; dead; don; door; early; eyes; face; family; father; feet; fort; frank; friend; girl; good; ground; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hetty; home; horses; house; husband; indian; lady; lay; left; letter; life; lola; look; man; men; miss; moment; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; new; night; nora; old; people; place; poor; post; road; room; san; saw; sister; station; sun; think; thought; time; water; way; white; wife; window; woman; young cache: 42308.txt plain text: 42308.txt item: #275 of 328 id: 42532 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Gold-Seekers: A Tale of California date: None words: 73648 flesch: 79 summary: Don Sebastian and Don Louis separated with a frigid bow, like men who are persuaded they will never meet again. My faith, Don Louis! keywords: adventurers; angela; brother; caballero; captain; chief; colonel; company; cornelio; count; country; curumilla; day; don; don cornelio; don louis; doña; eyes; face; father; friend; general; good; guaymas; hand; head; heart; hunter; life; louis; man; men; mexican; mexico; moment; night; order; place; san; sebastian; smile; time; valentine; voice; way; wish; word; years cache: 42532.txt plain text: 42532.txt item: #276 of 328 id: 42619 author: Perrie, George W. title: Buckskin Mose Or, Life From the Lakes to the Pacific, as Actor, Circus-Rider, Detective, Ranger, Gold-Digger, Indian Scout, and Guide. date: None words: 78738 flesch: 79 summary: This unusual hint, in all probability, accelerated the speed of the latter, for he seems to have made good time. Amongst these was Ben Painter, Luther Spencer, David Blanchard, my old friend Brighton Bill, Butch' Hasbrouck, and a number of others, as good men as ever rammed a ball down a rifle. keywords: arnold; bill; body; boys; brighton; butch; camp; captain; chance; city; country; creek; crim; day; days; eyes; face; feet; following; good; half; hand; horse; indian; lake; left; life; long; look; man; men; moment; morning; mose; new; night; old; pah; painter; party; place; rangers; red; rest; rifle; river; round; skins; time; valley; way; white; yer cache: 42619.txt plain text: 42619.txt item: #277 of 328 id: 42834 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Red Track: A Story of Social Life in Mexico date: None words: 83714 flesch: 70 summary: There, a man may ransom himself by making a present; but we must avow, to the honour of the Indian fair sex, that few men do so. The door was hardly ajar ere several men burst into the inn, thrusting each other aside in their haste, as if afraid of being followed. keywords: anita; body; capataz; carnero; chief; colonel; convent; country; day; don; door; doña; excellency; eyes; face; frenchman; friend; general; hand; head; heart; horse; hour; hunter; indian; left; life; man; martial; master; mexican; mexico; moment; night; order; peons; place; present; room; round; sebastian; señor; smile; spite; tigrero; time; valentine; voice; way; wish; words cache: 42834.txt plain text: 42834.txt item: #278 of 328 id: 4294 author: Hartmann, George title: Tales of Aztlan; The Romance of a Hero of Our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a Western Pioneer and Other Tales date: None words: 33258 flesch: 75 summary: There was a fight, and not until several men were seriously wounded came they to their senses and obeyed my orders. Several men looked after the wants of the horses, others built fires, and four of the party returned toward me. keywords: arizona; camp; chief; city; country; course; day; days; death; distance; don; door; earth; evil; eyes; face; father; friend; gold; ground; hand; home; horse; indians; juan; king; life; man; men; mexican; mexico; mother; mountain; navajo; new; night; people; place; poor; royal; saw; silver; sphinx; stone; thought; time; town; wagon; water cache: 4294.txt plain text: 4294.txt item: #279 of 328 id: 43473 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Trappers of Arkansas; or, The Loyal Heart date: None words: 89409 flesch: 77 summary: Because I wish you to partake of something I have prepared for you before you mount on horseback; you cannot refuse me, can you, dear uncle? she said, with that coaxing smile of spoilt children which delights the hearts of old men. But, Belhumeur asked, is it today--do you say, old man, that she is to be burnt? Yes. Is there still time, then? Alas! keywords: belhumeur; black; camp; captain; chief; comanches; doctor; don; doña; eagle; elk; eyes; fire; friend; general; girl; god; good; guide; half; hand; head; heart; horse; hunter; indians; lady; left; life; loyal; luz; man; men; moment; mother; night; order; place; prairies; ramón; set; smile; son; time; uncle; voice; warriors cache: 43473.txt plain text: 43473.txt item: #280 of 328 id: 43925 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border date: None words: 98042 flesch: 79 summary: The Redskins are not, like other men, easy to question; cunning and finesse obtain no advantage over these doubtful natives. The elders of the tribe regard him as a genius superior to other men, arranging events as he pleases, and able, if he will, to change the course of the future. keywords: black; brother; buffalo; camp; chief; count; day; desert; eye; eyes; face; father; fire; flower; fort; friend; girl; glance; good; hand; head; heart; hunter; indians; ivon; life; love; man; master; men; moment; mother; natah; natah otann; night; otann; prairie; redskins; round; son; time; voice; warriors; way; white; wolf; woman; words cache: 43925.txt plain text: 43925.txt item: #281 of 328 id: 44375 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure date: None words: 75717 flesch: 77 summary: In killing you, now you are in my power, I should only be making use of reprisals? That is perfectly true, _caballero_, I must even confess that you could not possibly have a stronger reason for doing so. Now, where are the cards? It was then discovered that these three gallant _caballeros_, who never played, had each a pack of cards in his pocket. keywords: brother; caballero; colonel; day; don; don estevan; don fernando; don guzman; don pedro; don torribio; doña; eyes; face; far; father; fear; fire; forest; girl; good; ground; hacendero; hacienda; hand; head; heart; hermosa; horse; hunter; leave; left; life; long; look; man; master; men; mexican; moment; order; place; right; señor; smile; thought; tigercat; time; travellers; unknown; voice; words cache: 44375.txt plain text: 44375.txt item: #282 of 328 id: 44574 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Missouri Outlaws date: None words: 50599 flesch: 86 summary: After presenting the scalps taken by myself and young men to the sachems, and receiving their thanks, I was going to my wigwam to visit my father, detained at home by old wounds, when I suddenly saw a young girl leaning against the ark of the first man. As far as I can judge, this pirate or this outlaw, whichever you choose to call him, is not a man like other men. keywords: brother; camotte; captain; chief; clinton; desert; dickson; durand; eye; face; father; friend; george; girl; good; hand; head; hunter; indian; joshua; man; matter; men; mitchell; moment; numank; oliver; outlaw; right; samuel; sir; squatter; time; tom; valley; way cache: 44574.txt plain text: 44574.txt item: #283 of 328 id: 45047 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Red River Half-Breed: A Tale of the Wild North-West date: None words: 75587 flesch: 82 summary: 'Shouldn't wonder, he went on, smiling, but that, without paint and powder, your bridegroom would be pretty jealous if he had me for best man and I drew the bridesmaids' eyes to my corner. There are young men who love as strongly as you, whose sweethearts are in that band; fathers who sorrow like my nephew, whose da'ters are there cooped up. keywords: band; bill; blood; breeds; brother; camp; captain; captain kidd; chapter; cherokee; chief; cold; crows; dearborn; eyes; face; father; fire; friend; girl; gold; good; guide; half; hand; having; head; horse; hour; hunter; indian; jim; joe; kidd; kind; knife; lady; left; leon; lieutenant; life; look; maclan; man; men; miss; mountain; new; old; place; red; ridge; right; river; rosario; round; set; sir; snow; tent; thing; time; trapper; voice; want; water; way; white; women; yellowstone; young cache: 45047.txt plain text: 45047.txt item: #284 of 328 id: 4515 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Golden Snare date: None words: 55695 flesch: 89 summary: At first Philip thought this bag was empty. CHAPTER IV The next morning the tail of the storm was still sweeping bitterly over the edge of the Barren, but Philip set out, with Pierre Breault as his guide, for the place where the half-breed had seen Bram Johnson and his wolves in camp. keywords: blake; bram; bram johnson; cabin; celie; cry; door; eyes; face; fire; girl; great; hair; half; hand; head; hour; lips; man; moment; night; pack; philip; sledge; snow; sound; thought; time; trail; voice; way; white; wolves cache: 4515.txt plain text: 4515.txt item: #285 of 328 id: 45401 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Guide of the Desert date: None words: 64511 flesch: 74 summary: Strange anomaly of character in certain men, and which is so often met with, especially among the Brazilian half-castes; with them their word is everything, nothing will induce them to break it. Nearly in the centre of the encampment, at the summit of a little hill of a scarcely perceptible slope, several men, whose arms and clothing were in a better position, and their appearance less fierce than those of their companions, were seated on the grass smoking their cigarettes. keywords: captain; chief; country; day; desert; diogo; don; excellency; eyes; fear; general; good; guaycurus; half; hand; having; head; horse; indian; journey; leave; left; life; look; lord; malco; man; marquis; moment; night; niom; order; painter; people; señor; tarou; time; voice; wish; word; zeno cache: 45401.txt plain text: 45401.txt item: #286 of 328 id: 45582 author: Young, Clarence title: Jack Ranger's Gun Club; Or, From Schoolroom to Camp and Trail date: None words: 63990 flesch: 94 summary: What isn't? asked Sam. Telling Jack like that. I'll make you pay for that, Jack Ranger! Whenever you like, replied Jack coolly, as he stood waiting the attack. keywords: big; bony; boys; budge; camp; chums; day; dock; fire; good; guess; gun; horses; hunting; ike; jack; jack ranger; lads; little; look; man; men; mountain; nat; new; place; professor; right; room; sam; school; snaith; snow; thought; time; want; water; way cache: 45582.txt plain text: 45582.txt item: #287 of 328 id: 45618 author: Wheeler, Edward L. (Edward Lytton) title: Deadwood Dick Jr. Branded; or, Red Rover at Powder Pocket. date: None words: 25888 flesch: 93 summary: The others cheered as they followed, and as soon as they had passed out of sight, Captain Joaquin turned to Dick and said: Now, then, Deadwood Dick, you follow me. If it has seemed that Deadwood Dick was acting unwisely, and was assuming too great risks, it was not altogether without some compensating objects in view. keywords: captain; captain joaquin; chance; chapter; deadwood; deadwood dick; dick; good; hand; joaquin; life; man; men; red; right; rover; susana; time; want; way; woman cache: 45618.txt plain text: 45618.txt item: #288 of 328 id: 45989 author: Chase, Josephine title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the High Sierras date: None words: 50279 flesch: 89 summary: Stacy gave her a quick sidelong glance, and Hippy Wingate, observing the look, knew that war had been declared between Stacy Brown and Emma Dean. CHAPTER II AN INTERRUPTED SLEEP Right at this point, said the traveling salesman impressively, a train left the track and plunged into that ravine down there. None of the others had ever seen Stacy Brown, so they had not the least idea what was in store for them from the comedian of the Pony Rider Boys' outfit. keywords: away; boy; brown; camp; car; chunky; elfreda; emma; fire; ford; girls; grace; gray; head; hippy; know; lake; lieutenant; men; mountain; overland; overlanders; party; pony; right; sheriff; stacy; time; tom; trail; way; wingate; woo cache: 45989.txt plain text: 45989.txt item: #289 of 328 id: 46276 author: Aimard, Gustave title: The Treasure of Pearls: A Romance of Adventures in California date: None words: 76209 flesch: 74 summary: The excellence of the work was better shown in the cement, not mud, or ground gypsum, having resisted the weather and particularly the sandy winds themselves, though they had worn the _dobies_ (_adobes_, sun dried bricks) away deeply in places, without making airholes through. That lady had been completely changed in character by her bath in the Gulf, a magic wrought by _Pacific_ water which may recommend it in the future to the lovers of peaceful married life vexed by an irritating aunt. keywords: air; american; aníbal; apaches; arms; benito; blood; body; brother; captain; chapter; chief; clear; coming; cut; daughter; dead; death; dolores; don; don benito; door; doña; englishman; eyes; face; father; feet; fire; friend; gentleman; gladsden; ground; gun; hacienda; half; hand; having; head; heart; horses; house; hunter; ignacio; indians; jorge; josé; knife; lady; left; life; like; little; man; matasiete; men; mexican; moment; new; oliver; order; pearl; pedrillo; place; red; rest; right; set; shot; smoke; spanish; thar; thought; time; voice; war; water; way; white; wild; young cache: 46276.txt plain text: 46276.txt item: #290 of 328 id: 46304 author: Herbert, Henry William title: The Silent Rifleman! A tale of the Texan prairies date: None words: 21782 flesch: 77 summary: Julia Gordon blushed crimson as he spoke, and then in an instant turned as pale as ashes. Julia Gordon was a high-minded, artless, innocent woman, if ever such an one breathed the breath of life; but still she was a woman. keywords: dragoons; eyes; god; gordon; half; hand; head; horse; instant; julia; lady; life; man; marguerita; men; moment; partisan; pierre; rifle; saddle; time; young cache: 46304.txt plain text: 46304.txt item: #291 of 328 id: 46457 author: Dunning, Hal title: White Wolf's Law: A Western Story date: None words: 65486 flesch: 92 summary: I heard tell of 'em twins--watch 'em, Jack Allen warned. Jim Allen hardly listened to the discussion which followed. Jack Allen, mounted on his big black stallion, and Jim Allen, on Honeyboy, dashed, side by side, after the rustlers. keywords: allen; anderson; away; baldy; big; bill; door; eyes; face; gent; goin'; gun; head; hogg; house; jack; jack allen; jim; jim allen; judge; kid; know; left; man; mcallister; men; moment; night; pop; ranch; sam; saw; sheriff; slivers; snippets; spur; tell; time; toothpick; town; trail; wolf; yuh cache: 46457.txt plain text: 46457.txt item: #292 of 328 id: 4674 author: Harte, Bret title: Tennessee's Partner date: None words: 5174 flesch: 67 summary: Yet he advanced with great gravity, and after shaking the hand of each person in the room with labored cordiality, he wiped his serious, perplexed face on a red bandanna handkerchief, a shade lighter than his complexion, laid his powerful hand upon the table to steady himself, and thus addressed the Judge:--I was passin' by, he began, by way of apology, and I thought I'd just step in and see how things was gittin' on with Tennessee thar,--my pardner. Three Tennessee's Partner Both were fearless types of a civilization that in the seventeenth century would have been called heroic, but in the nineteenth simply 'reckless.' keywords: bar; day; face; hand; judge; life; man; partner; tennessee; time cache: 4674.txt plain text: 4674.txt item: #293 of 328 id: 4702 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Flaming Forest date: None words: 76973 flesch: 88 summary: And suddenly the thing he had been fighting to recall came to Carrigan--the great bear--the fighting wolves--the crest of St. Pierre Boulain! We do not know this St. Pierre. keywords: anne; audemard; bateau; bateese; black; boulain; cabin; carrigan; david; door; eyes; face; feet; fight; hair; half; hand; head; heart; know; life; lips; little; m'sieu; m'sieu david; man; marie; men; moment; pierre; raft; river; roger; thing; thought; time; voice; way; wife; window; woman cache: 4702.txt plain text: 4702.txt item: #294 of 328 id: 4707 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country date: None words: 75430 flesch: 90 summary: Personally, Kent did not feel like a dying man. But Kent possessed an unswerving passion to grip at facts in detail, a characteristic that had largely helped him to earn the reputation of being the best man-hunter in all the northland service. keywords: arms; away; cardigan; day; death; door; eyes; face; feet; fingers; girl; hair; half; hand; head; heart; jeems; kedsty; kent; life; lips; little; man; marette; mercer; moment; night; north; o'connor; river; room; saw; thing; thought; time; voice; way; window; years cache: 4707.txt plain text: 4707.txt item: #295 of 328 id: 47399 author: Grinnell, George Bird title: Jack the Young Cowboy: An Eastern Boy's Experiance on a Western Round-up date: None words: 82205 flesch: 85 summary: Jack saw Vicente coolly shortening the rope, and then the little horse made a sidewise rush and again the bear flew head over heels. I saw something of the cattle business down on the plains when the cattle business was fairly new there, and when all the cattle came up over the trail from Texas, and they certainly did have good cow horses down there. keywords: bear; big; boys; bunch; camp; cattle; close; country; course; cow; day; donald; good; ground; head; herd; horse; hugh; jack; jack mason; joe; little; long; man; mason; men; powell; right; rope; saddle; thing; time; vicente; way; work cache: 47399.txt plain text: 47399.txt item: #296 of 328 id: 4748 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: Baree, Son of Kazan date: None words: 66913 flesch: 90 summary: In a flash Baree thought of the water and the escaping caribou. Three times that winter Baree fought--once with a lynx that sprang down upon him from a windfall while he was eating a freshly killed rabbit, and twice with two lone wolves. keywords: bain; baree; beaver; black; blood; body; cabin; carvel; day; deep; dog; eyes; face; factor; feet; forest; half; hand; head; kazan; lac; man; mctaggart; moment; nepeese; night; pierrot; snow; sound; time; time baree; trail; trap; voice; water; way; wild; willow; wolf cache: 4748.txt plain text: 4748.txt item: #297 of 328 id: 502 author: Grey, Zane title: Desert Gold date: None words: 107349 flesch: 91 summary: XV BOUND IN THE DESERT FAR away from Forlorn River Dick Gale sat stunned, gazing down into the purple depths where Rojas had plunged to his death. Belding saw Gale grow deathly white and suddenly stand stock-still. keywords: belding; black; blanco; cameron; chase; close; dark; day; desert; dick; dick gale; eyes; face; gale; girl; good; hand; head; horses; indian; jim; ladd; lash; lava; left; life; like; line; look; love; man; men; mercedes; moment; nell; night; old; raiders; rangers; red; river; rojas; round; sand; shore; slow; sol; think; thorne; thought; time; trail; voice; want; water; way; white; yaqui cache: 502.txt plain text: 502.txt item: #298 of 328 id: 50939 author: Turner, William Oliver title: The High Hander date: None words: 42671 flesch: 95 summary: I'm not half as busy as you'd think, Mr. Tesno, she said. Hobo, meet Mr. Tesno. keywords: bar; ben; boiler; charlie; come; door; eyes; face; gun; hand; head; horse; jay; left; madrid; man; marshal; men; o'hara; persia; pinky; right; road; room; sam; stella; tesno; thought; time; town; vickers; way; willie cache: 50939.txt plain text: 50939.txt item: #299 of 328 id: 5099 author: Beach, Rex title: Heart of the Sunset date: None words: 107798 flesch: 86 summary: The brief night ride had given Alaire time in which to recover from her first apprehensions, and now she was surprised at her own coolness. II THE AMBUSH Alaire Austin slept badly. keywords: alaire; austin; blaze; country; course; dave; dave law; day; dolores; ellsworth; eyes; face; father; fellow; felt; general; god; going; gone; good; guzman; hand; head; heart; horse; husband; jones; josã; las; law; left; lewis; life; longorio; look; man; men; mexican; mexico; mind; moment; mrs; palmas; paloma; panfilo; people; ranch; ranger; ricardo; right; room; seã±ora; strange; tad; thing; thought; time; truth; voice; water; way; wife; woman cache: 5099.txt plain text: 5099.txt item: #300 of 328 id: 5233 author: Beach, Rex title: The Iron Trail date: None words: 103996 flesch: 86 summary: At this talk of economy from Curtis Gordon O'Neil refrained from smiling with difficulty. Among the latter was Murray O'Neil. keywords: appleton; bridge; coal; cortez; country; course; dan; day; eliza; eyes; face; fact; far; gerard; girl; going; good; gordon; gray; half; hand; happy; head; help; hope; ice; kyak; left; life; look; man; matter; men; mind; miss; moment; money; morning; mother; murray; natalie; need; new; north; o'neil; omar; open; people; place; point; railroad; right; river; room; salmon; ship; slater; story; thing; thought; time; tom; trust; voice; water; way; white; work cache: 5233.txt plain text: 5233.txt item: #301 of 328 id: 52358 author: Coolidge, Dane title: The Desert Trail date: None words: 70682 flesch: 85 summary: What is there up here? inquired Bud, pointing at a fainter trail that led off toward the north. Wonder what's the matter with them chinks? observed Bud, when his happiness had ceased to effervesce. keywords: americans; amigo; aragon; big; bud; camp; country; day; del; don; eyes; face; fortuna; friend; good; gracia; half; hand; head; hooker; horse; juan; kruger; lancey; left; line; look; man; men; mendez; mexican; mexico; pardner; phil; rebels; rey; right; rurales; saw; seã±or; smile; spanish; time; town; trail; way; work; yaqui cache: 52358.txt plain text: 52358.txt item: #302 of 328 id: 538 author: Bower, B. M. title: Jean of the Lazy A date: None words: 74508 flesch: 88 summary: This, Jean felt, was a gentle reproof for her own speculations upon the subject. He had set tasks before Jean Douglas that many a man would have refused without losing his self-respect, and Jean had performed those tasks with enthusiasm. keywords: aleck; art; burns; camera; carl; close; dad; day; door; eyes; face; gay; gil; going; good; grant; grant burns; hand; head; home; house; jean; lazy; left; lite; look; man; muriel; pard; pete; picture; ranch; ride; right; robert; room; saddle; scene; things; think; thought; time; way; work cache: 538.txt plain text: 538.txt item: #303 of 328 id: 53885 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: A Gentleman of Courage: A Novel of the Wilderness date: None words: 86196 flesch: 90 summary: I helped with a stone, and at last Peter got him into the pond, and almost drowned him. Take Peter away from him and his heart was gone, for Peter was the one thing he had left of a great faith and a great love that would never die. keywords: albanel; aleck; arms; big; boy; cabin; carter; curry; day; donald; eyes; face; father; fingers; fire; forest; god; going; hair; half; hand; head; heart; hour; josette; life; lips; little; man; mcrae; moment; mona; night; peter; peter mcrae; pierre; saw; simon; thought; time; voice; way; white; years cache: 53885.txt plain text: 53885.txt item: #304 of 328 id: 56154 author: Mulford, Clarence Edward title: The Man from Bar 20: A Story of the Cow Country date: None words: 78079 flesch: 91 summary: I've thought some of gettin' th' boys together to elect me sheriff; an' cussed if I wouldn't 'a' done it, too, if it wasn't for th' ridin'. What kind of a ranch is th' CL? Well, it was th' fust to locate in these parts, an' had its pick; an', nat'rally, it picked th' valley of th' Deepwater. keywords: ackerman; away; butte; canyon; country; cows; day; edge; end; eyes; face; feet; fire; fleming; fool; gates; goin'; good; growled; gun; hand; harrison; head; holbrook; horse; johnny; left; little; logan; look; luke; man; mebby; men; nelson; pete; place; pop; purdy; quigley; ranch; reckon; red; rifle; right; rock; shore; shot; tell; things; time; trail; valley; voice; wall; water; way; yo're; yore cache: 56154.txt plain text: 56154.txt item: #305 of 328 id: 56626 author: Mulford, Clarence Edward title: Johnny Nelson How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what came of it date: None words: 97903 flesch: 92 summary: Th' ranches sort of mingled along th' edges. That was not th' right thing for a lady to do--but I'm allus with th' under dog, I'm sorry to say, so I horned in an' offered you a gun that would fill them fellers with righteous indignation, homicidal yearnin's, an' a belief in miracles. keywords: 'em; bar; big; cattle; cimarron; come; dailey; dave; doc; door; double; eyes; face; foreman; goin'; good; gun; gunsight; hand; head; herd; horse; hoss; johnny; left; look; lot; man; mebby; men; nelson; nothin'; pepper; ranch; range; reckon; ride; right; round; saddle; shore; slim; smitty; spot; squint; things; think; time; tom; town; trail; way; wolf; yo're; yore cache: 56626.txt plain text: 56626.txt item: #306 of 328 id: 58155 author: Mulford, Clarence Edward title: The Bar-20 Three date: None words: 101181 flesch: 91 summary: Two to one ain't fair, 'specially with the lone man in th' middle; but I'll make th' odds even, for I'm honin' to claim self-defense, myself. I got a little bunch of cows on th' drive west of here, an' they ought to be at Twitchell an' Carpenter's corrals about now. keywords: bank; bar; bill; boss; building; close; come; companion; corwin; day; desert; door; eyes; face; feet; fellers; fire; friend; goin'; good; growled; grunted; gun; guns; hand; head; herd; hopalong; horse; hotel; idaho; johnny; kane; leave; left; long; look; man; mccullough; mebby; men; money; nelson; nodded; north; nothin'; place; quayle; reckon; red; ride; ridley; right; room; sand; saw; sheriff; shore; thorpe; thought; time; town; trail; trask; voice; wall; water; way; yo're; yore cache: 58155.txt plain text: 58155.txt item: #307 of 328 id: 58568 author: Inman, Henry title: Tales of the Trail: Short Stories of Western Life date: None words: 57486 flesch: 66 summary: This was old man Bartlett--better known, however, and generally accosted as Judge, because he had so frequently presided over the locally instituted courts in the diggings everywhere he had been during his long career in the mountains and on the Plains. Reaching the lodge where the chiefs and head men were assembled, he found there also many women and children of the tribe, evidently expectant of some serious matter to be discussed. keywords: animals; booth; bradford; buffalo; cabin; camp; chief; course; day; days; dead; doctor; face; fire; fort; general; great; hallowell; head; hollow; horses; illustration; indians; jack; kit; left; life; looking; man; men; moment; morning; mules; new; place; plains; podgett; prairie; right; river; rock; saw; susie; time; town; trail; wagon; wal; war; warriors; whooping; years cache: 58568.txt plain text: 58568.txt item: #308 of 328 id: 5895 author: Curwood, James Oliver title: The Honor of the Big Snows date: None words: 59795 flesch: 88 summary: For many succeeding days Jan took long walks alone in the forest trails, and silently thrashed out the two problems which Cummins had brought back from Churchill for him. Thees is Jan--Jan Thoreau--and his violon-- The woman's bloodless face and her great staring dark eyes greeted them as they entered the cabin. keywords: arms; cabin; cummins; day; dixon; dogs; door; eyes; face; forest; going; gravois; half; hands; head; jan; jan thoreau; jean; lac; life; little; love; man; mélisse; night; post; snow; thornton; time; violin; voice; woman cache: 5895.txt plain text: 5895.txt item: #309 of 328 id: 60795 author: Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry) title: Arizona Argonauts date: None words: 36428 flesch: 88 summary: Mackintavers gave Murray a significant glance, followed by a wink. Doctor! Is it true--what you said about Doctor Murray? For a moment Scudder looked into her eyes as though reading what lay behind her eagerness, her compassionate words. keywords: bill; car; claire; deadoak; desert; doctor; eyes; face; father; girl; good; hand; hobbs; hotel; lee; look; mackintavers; man; men; murray; palms; piute; place; right; room; sandy; scudder; time; tom; tomkins; valley; way; willyum cache: 60795.txt plain text: 60795.txt item: #310 of 328 id: 60797 author: Bedford-Jones, H. (Henry) title: The Sheriff of Pecos date: None words: 28585 flesch: 94 summary: Who posted that letter for you? I gave it to Mr. Buck to mail, as he was going to town. You can make them believe when---- I'm afraid Mr. Buck is right stubborn and set in his ways, sighed Robinson. keywords: arnold; bar; brady; buck; cervantes; eyes; fisher; hand; harper; jake; man; men; mike; murphy; place; right; robinson; sam; sheriff; steve; time; tracy cache: 60797.txt plain text: 60797.txt item: #311 of 328 id: 61013 author: Grow, Julian F. title: The Fastest Gun Dead date: None words: 4788 flesch: 95 summary: Now. Dirty Jake shot him into doll rags, naturally. Dirty Jake didn't speak to me for three years. keywords: gun; hand; head; jake; man; right; time; umbrella cache: 61013.txt plain text: 61013.txt item: #312 of 328 id: 61329 author: Gregory, Jackson title: Timber-Wolf date: None words: 101873 flesch: 90 summary: Men cautioned other men against letting too many people know; but such was the electric mood swaying them that early the next morning the news began trickling forth through the country surrounding Big Pine. But when did Timber-Wolf ever do what other men expected of him? keywords: babe; babe deveril; billy; bruce standing; day; dead; deveril; dog; door; eyes; face; fire; gallup; girl; gold; good; half; hand; head; heart; jim; joe; left; life; look; lynette; man; men; mexicali; mexicali joe; moment; night; pine; rifle; run; set; shot; standing; taggart; thing; thor; thought; timber; time; voice; way; winch; wolf; word; young cache: 61329.txt plain text: 61329.txt item: #313 of 328 id: 61620 author: McCulley, Johnston title: The Mark of Zorro date: None words: 68707 flesch: 91 summary: With his back still toward them, he opened the cloak and shook the raindrops from it, and then folded it across his breast again as the fat landlord hurried forward, rubbing his hands together in expectation, for he deemed that here was some _caballero_ off the highway who would pay good coin for food and bed and care for his horse. I have spoken too much of myself already, _señor_, and it ill becomes a _caballero_ to do that. keywords: blade; caballero; captain; don; don carlos; don diego; door; excellency; father; fray; gonzales; governor; hacienda; hand; highwayman; horse; lolita; man; men; ramón; room; sergeant; señor zorro; señorita; soldiers; time; troopers; vega; wine cache: 61620.txt plain text: 61620.txt item: #314 of 328 id: 61946 author: Ward, William (Author at Arthur Westbrook Co. (Cleveland, Ohio)) title: Jesse James' Desperate Game; Or, The Robbery of the Ste. Genevieve Bank date: None words: 46818 flesch: 82 summary: Our getting away from old man Prior's was pretty raw work for detectives who are supposed to be onto their jobs and rather than be hauled up on the carpet to explain to their superiors, they'll work as they never have before. good man! broke from many lips. keywords: away; bandit; banker; chieftain; clell; cole; consollas; crowd; desperado; detectives; door; eyes; father; girl; horses; house; hunters; jesse; jim; let; man; men; money; outlaws; posse; right; rozier; son; springs; tent; time; want; way; words; world cache: 61946.txt plain text: 61946.txt item: #315 of 328 id: 63159 author: Savage, Les title: Treasure of the Brasada date: None words: 58431 flesch: 91 summary: Sensing Crawford at its side, the animal turned, shifting its weight to kick. MERIDA LOPEZ, whose presence at the Big O ranch is surrounded by mystery, has a faintly exotic beauty and slumberous, provocative eyes which both irritate Crawford and stir something primal in him. keywords: aforismo; africano; animal; bailey; black; body; brush; bull; corral; crawford; delcazar; door; eyes; face; hand; head; horse; huerta; jacinto; legs; man; merida; mesquite; mexican; moment; neck; pain; quartel; right; rockland; room; rope; run; sound; time; trigueã±o; voice; way; woman cache: 63159.txt plain text: 63159.txt item: #316 of 328 id: 63389 author: Young, Elizabeth G. title: Homestead Ranch date: None words: 75706 flesch: 93 summary: Turning, Harry saw Smoot, the hotel clerk, leaning over the railing of the porch with a chair in his hand. Even as she spoke Harry felt how empty her words were. keywords: biane; brother; cattle; come; day; eyes; face; felt; garnett; girl; going; good; harry; hay; herd; home; horses; house; isita; joe; jones; joyce; land; little; look; ludlum; man; men; morning; mrs; ranch; right; road; rob; robinson; round; saw; stock; think; thought; time; voice; water; way; winter; work cache: 63389.txt plain text: 63389.txt item: #317 of 328 id: 6488 author: Beach, Rex title: Going Some date: None words: 46923 flesch: 92 summary: He had come to them out of the Nowhere, some four years previously, and while he never spoke of himself, and discouraged reminiscence in others, it became known through those vague uncharted channels by which news travels on the frontier, that back in the Texas Panhandle there was a limping marshal who felt regrets at mention of his name, and that farther north were other men who had a superstitious dread of undersized cow-men with spectacles. He steeled himself with the thought that other men had snuffed out life itself in this manner, then sat down upon the floor and cocked the weapon a second time. keywords: away; blake; carara; centipede; chapin; covington; culver; day; eyes; foot; fresno; gallagher; glass; good; hand; heart; helen; house; jack; jean; keap; larry; man; men; miss; mrs; race; right; run; skinner; speed; stover; time; trainer; voice; way; willie cache: 6488.txt plain text: 6488.txt item: #318 of 328 id: 6997 author: Wright, Harold Bell title: The Winning of Barbara Worth date: None words: 131083 flesch: 83 summary: When the dusty old stage with its four half-broken horses pulled into Kingston that night, three tired and anxious, but joyful, desert men occupied the front rank of the waiting crowd before the new hotel. Once more he halted to exchange a word with a group of Company men, and later stopped to greet three Mexicans who were in from the Company's camps. keywords: abe; abe lee; answer; barbara; barbara worth; basin; big; business; city; come; coming; company; country; day; desert; engineer; eyes; face; father; girl; good; greenfield; hand; head; holmes; home; horse; jefferson worth; king; kingston; land; lee; left; life; line; long; look; man; manager; men; money; morning; new; pablo; pat; people; place; power; railroad; right; river; room; san; seer; senor; surveyor; texas; time; town; voice; water; way; willard; woman; words; work cache: 6997.txt plain text: 6997.txt item: #319 of 328 id: 710 author: London, Jack title: Love of Life, and Other Stories date: None words: 49614 flesch: 92 summary: From white man he steals two pounds of flour. For that, white man take plenty good care of him. keywords: bear; cabin; day; dennin; dogs; edith; eyes; face; feet; fire; great; hand; hans; head; keesh; kill; life; look; man; meat; men; messner; negore; night; people; saw; snow; time; trail; water; way; white; wolf; woman cache: 710.txt plain text: 710.txt item: #320 of 328 id: 746 author: London, Jack title: Burning Daylight date: None words: 116580 flesch: 86 summary: CHAPTER XVII For months Daylight was buried in work. Light as the task would have been for a strong man to lower the small boat to the ground, it took Daylight hours. keywords: arm; boat; bob; burning; business; city; coming; country; daylight; days; dede; dogs; dollars; door; dowsett; elijah; end; eyes; face; feet; game; going; gold; good; great; half; hand; head; high; hills; horse; hours; hunch; indian; kama; kearns; klondike; land; left; let; life; look; love; man; mason; matter; men; miles; millions; mind; moment; money; new; office; open; place; play; ride; riding; right; river; run; san; saw; snow; strike; thing; thought; time; time daylight; trail; valley; wall; water; way; woman; work; world; years; young; yukon cache: 746.txt plain text: 746.txt item: #321 of 328 id: 7496 author: Young, Clarence title: Jack Ranger's Western Trip; Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range date: None words: 64034 flesch: 93 summary: No sir, I'm Jack Ranger, from Denton, and these are friends of mine, and Jack mentioned their names. Can you tell me where to find him? Yes, to all three questions, Jack Ranger, said Mr. Tevis, heartily, and Jack felt his heart thumping against his ribs as though it would leap out. keywords: 'em; boys; father; find; good; grimm; guess; hall; hand; horses; indian; jack; jim; john; kent; little; look; man; mead; men; nat; place; post; professor; ranger; right; room; sam; smith; socrat; tell; tevis; thought; time; want; water; way cache: 7496.txt plain text: 7496.txt item: #322 of 328 id: 753 author: White, Stewart Edward title: Arizona Nights date: None words: 66872 flesch: 90 summary: They were good men, addicted to the grass-rope, the double cinch, and the ox-bow stirrup. I've got good men here ready to take the job, but no one who knows the country south. keywords: buck; calf; cattle; cattleman; country; course; cow; cut; day; days; denton; desert; dust; end; estrella; eyes; feet; fire; good; gun; half; hand; head; herd; home; horses; jed; johnson; know; left; little; look; man; men; moment; mountains; parker; pete; pony; ranch; right; round; saw; schwartz; senor; senor johnson; sun; texas; thought; time; trail; water; way; woman; work cache: 753.txt plain text: 753.txt item: #323 of 328 id: 9791 author: Brand, Max title: Harrigan date: None words: 67381 flesch: 92 summary: Bring Harrigan close to that door at that tune and make him talk about the mutiny. Facing Harrigan were Jacob Flint and Sam Hall. keywords: black; bos'n; cabin; campbell; captain; come; crew; deck; door; eyes; face; fire; girl; good; hand; harrigan; head; henshaw; hovey; irishman; kate; light; look; man; mctee; men; moment; rest; saw; sea; ship; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; word; work cache: 9791.txt plain text: 9791.txt item: #324 of 328 id: 9867 author: Brand, Max title: Riders of the Silences date: None words: 65182 flesch: 93 summary: Pierre, now Red Pierre, indeed, rose and ran to the fallen man, and, looking at the bulk of the giant, he wondered with a cold heart. He whispered: You're Red Pierre? The clothes, repeated Pierre sternly, on the jump, McGuire. keywords: black; boone; boy; cross; dick; door; eyes; face; father; fire; girl; gun; hand; head; heart; horse; jack; left; look; man; mary; mcgurk; men; moment; night; pierre; place; red; room; time; voice; way; white; wilbur; wind cache: 9867.txt plain text: 9867.txt item: #325 of 328 id: 9903 author: Brand, Max title: Way of the Lawless date: None words: 72081 flesch: 92 summary: Andrew Lanning was not even his son, but it came about in this way that Andrew became the life work of Jasper. What does he mean, said Bill Dozier aloud, by breakin' for Jack Merchant's house? CHAPTER 5 The yell with which Andrew Lanning had shot out of Martindale, and which only Jasper Lanning had recognized, was no more startling to the men of the village than it was to Andrew himself. keywords: allister; andrew; andrew lanning; andy; away; bill; buck; door; dozier; eyes; face; going; good; gray; gun; hal; hand; head; horse; jasper; jeff; jud; lanning; larry; look; man; men; moment; place; right; room; saddle; sally; saw; scottie; talk; thing; time; trail; voice; way cache: 9903.txt plain text: 9903.txt item: #326 of 328 id: 9905 author: Norris, Frank title: A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West date: None words: 50858 flesch: 87 summary: I takes me headlong flight by way o' the back room and _on-root_ pitches Peg-leg's gun over into the cañon, too, an' then whips around the corner of the saloon an' fetches out ag'in by the street in front. Well, the first thing, little man, observed Hardenberg, is for your mother's son to hang the monkey onto the safety-valve. keywords: ally; bazan; black; boat; buelna; bunt; chino; course; day; days; deck; end; eye; eyes; face; feet; felipe; glarus; god; good; half; hand; hardenberg; head; hornung; horse; hour; idaho; lay; left; leg; let; life; line; lockwood; love; man; moment; morning; new; night; peg; ryder; sea; set; ship; strokher; thing; thought; time; water; way; wheat; woman; word cache: 9905.txt plain text: 9905.txt item: #327 of 328 id: 9913 author: Austin, Mary title: The Trail Book date: None words: 74864 flesch: 87 summary: 'Said I not you were a beast of a bad heart!' But after I had carried back the little Delight-Maker to Kokomo, there were no signs of the four-colored arrow, which was the invitation to the Uakanyi, and young men whom Tse-tse had mimicked too often went about pretending to discover Diné wherever a rabbit ran or the leaves rustled. keywords: buffalo; chief; children; corn; country; day; days; dinã; dorcas; father; fire; gold; good; grass; hand; head; heart; house; indians; know; left; lenape; looking; man; medicine; men; mound; night; oliver; ongyatasse; people; place; river; spaniards; stone; story; sun; taku; things; think; thought; time; trail; tse; wakin; war; water; way; white; wind; woman cache: 9913.txt plain text: 9913.txt item: #328 of 328 id: 9925 author: Brand, Max title: Black Jack date: None words: 78197 flesch: 93 summary: You're going to get young Terry Hollis? interpreted Gainor, and his voice rose and rang over them. Something had to be done, and quickly, to save young Terry Hollis. keywords: black; come; cornish; denver; door; elizabeth; eyes; face; father; girl; good; gun; hand; head; hollis; house; jack; joe; kate; larrimer; life; man; men; moment; place; pollard; right; room; sangre; sheriff; son; table; talk; terence; terry; terry hollis; thing; time; town; vance; voice; way cache: 9925.txt plain text: 9925.txt