Sunset Ranch: A Story of a Boy's Adventures in the West — page 51: what you’re looking at

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Wild Life on the Ranch. 45 of each individual going to make up the whole party. “One more rise and then we’ll know,” said Karl, as he drew his gun, and took a fresh seat in his saddle, as if to be in readiness for anything that might come. Cuthbert held his breath as the little party fairly flew up the incline; when his eyes looked over the crest and the level, grassy plain beyond, he saw a spectacle well calculated to stir the blood in his veins and overwhelm him with the fever of battle, for those they sought were upon the stage of action. CoOnnicloooks CO