Hopalong Cassidy

HOPALONG CASSIDY

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CLARENCE E. MULFORD

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Hopalong Cassidy
First published in 1910
ISBN 978-1-62013-661-4
Duke Classics
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Contents

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Chapter I - Antonio's Scheme
Chapter II - Mary Meeker Rides North
Chapter III - The Roundup
Chapter IV - In West Arroyo
Chapter V - Hopalong Asserts Himself
Chapter VI - Meeker is Told
Chapter VII - Hopalong Meets Meeker
Chapter VIII - On the Edge of the Desert
Chapter IX - On the Peak
Chapter X - Buck Visits Meeker
Chapter XI - Three is a Crowd
Chapter XII - Hobble Burns and Sleepers
Chapter XIII - Hopalong Grows Suspicious
Chapter XIV - The Compromise
Chapter XV - Antonio Meets Friends
Chapter XVI - The Feint
Chapter XVII - Pete is Tricked
Chapter XVIII - The Line House Re-Captured
Chapter XIX - Antonio Leaves the H2
Chapter XX - What the Dam Told
Chapter XXI - Hopalong Rides South
Chapter XXII - Lucas Visits the Peak
Chapter XXIII - Hopalong and Red Go Scouting
Chapter XXIV - Red's Discomfiture
Chapter XXV - Antonio's Revenge
Chapter XXVI - Frisco Visits Eagle
Chapter XXVII - Shaw Has Visitors
Chapter XXVIII - Nevada Joins Shaw
Chapter XXIX - Surrounded
Chapter XXX - Up the Wall
Chapter XXXI - Fortune Snickers at Doc
Chapter XXXII - Nature Takes a Hand
Chapter XXXIII - Doc Trails
Chapter XXXIV - Discoveries
Chapter XXXV - Johnny Takes the Hut
Chapter XXXVI - The Last Night
Chapter XXXVII - Their Last Fight
Chapter XXXVIII - A Disagreeable Task
Chapter XXXIX - Thirst
Chapter XL - Changes
Chapter XLI - Hopalong's Reward

Chapter I - Antonio's Scheme

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The raw and mighty West, the greatest stage in all the history of the world for so many deeds of daring which verged on the insane, was seared and cross-barred with grave-lined trails and dotted with presumptuous, mushroom towns of brief stay, whose inhabitants flung their primal passions in the face of humanity and laughed in condescending contempt at what humanity had to say about it. In many localities the real bad-man, the man of the gun, whose claims to the appellation he was ready to prove against the rancorous doubting of all comers, made history in a terse and business-like way, and also made the first law for the locality—that of the gun.

There were good bad-men and bad bad-men, the killer by necessity and the wanton murderer; and the shifting of these to their proper strata evolved the foundation for the law of to-day. The good bad-men, those in whose souls lived the germs of law and order and justice, gradually became arrayed against the other class, and stood up manfully for their principles, let the odds be what they might; and bitter, indeed, was the struggle, and great the price.