Produced by Giovanni Fini, Roger Frank and the OnlineDistributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (Thisbook was produced from scanned images of public domainmaterial from the Google Books project.)

  TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE:

  —Obvious print and punctuation errors were corrected.

  He glanced down the rifle barrel and then as his fingerpressed the trigger the report roared.

  (_Page 219_) (_The Border Boys In the Canadian Rockies_)]

  THE BORDER BOYS IN THE CANADIAN ROCKIES

  By FREMONT B. DEERING

  AUTHOR OF

  “The Border Boys on the Trail,” “The Border Boys Along the Frontier,” “The Border Boys with the Mexican Rangers,” “The Border Boys with the Texas Rangers,” “The Border Boys Along the St. Lawrence.”

  A. L. BURT COMPANY

  Publishers New York

  Printed in U. S. A.

  Copyright, 1913 BY HURST & COMPANY

  MADE IN U. S. A.

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. THE BOY FROM NOWHERE 5

  II. THE TORRENT 16

  III. IN PERIL OF HIS LIFE 25

  IV. JIMMIE’S PLUCK 35

  V. THE START FOR THE ROCKIES 45

  VI. ALONG THE TRAIL 55

  VII. TREED BY A LYNX 63

  VIII. A WALKING PINCUSHION 72

  IX. A MOUNTAIN MYSTERY 81

  X. THE PONIES VANISH 96

  XI. RALPH’S VOLCANO 103

  XII. JUST IN TIME 114

  XIII. BOYS AND A GRIZZLY 124

  XIV. A CAVERN OF MYSTERY 132

  XV. THE HUT IN THE WOODS 140

  XVI. “UNDERGROUND!” 149

  XVII. A DESPERATE CHANCE 156

  XVIII. FACING GRIM DEATH 171

  XIX. A STORM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 180

  XX. PRISONERS! 192

  XXI. INDIANS 200

  XXII. AN ENCOUNTER WITH “BLOODS” 210

  XXIII. FIGHTING MOUNTAIN LIONS 219

  XXIV. “BITTER CREEK JONES” 229

  XXV. THE OUTLAW RANCH 243

  XXVI. CARTHEW OF “THE MOUNTED” 254

  XXVII. THE TROOPER’S STORY 268

  XXVIII. AFTER MOUNTAIN GOATS 275

  XXIX. JIMMIE FINDS A FATHER 287

  XXX. THE MYSTERY SOLVED 300

  The Border Boys in the Canadian Rockies