The Golden West Boys
INJUN AND WHITEY TO THE RESCUE
by
WILLIAM S. HART
Author of Injun and Whitey and Injun and Whitey Strike Out forThemselves, etc.
Illustrated by Harold Cue
THEY COULDN'T SHOOT HIM--HE WAS GOING TOO FAST (_page 272_)]
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers New YorkMade in the United States of AmericaCopyright, 1922, by William S. HartAll Rights ReservedPrinted In The U.S.A.
PREFACE
_In the Boys' Golden West Series I have done my best to present to itsreaders the West that I knew as a boy._
_Frontier days were made up of many different kinds of humans. Therewere men who were muddy-bellied coyotes, so low that they hugged theground like a snake. There were girls whose cheeks were so toughened byshame as to be hardly knowable from squaws. There were stoic Indianswith red-raw, liquor-dilated eyes, peaceable and just when sober,boastful and intolerant when drunk. And then there were those White Men,those moulders, those makers of the great, big open-hearted West, thathad not yet been denatured by nesters and wire fences, men to whom aColt gun was the court of last appeal and who did not carry a warrant intheir pockets until it was worn out, men who faced staggering odds anddanger single-handed and alone, men who created and worked out and madean Ideal Civilization,--a country where doors were left unlocked atnight and the windows of the mind were always open,--men who werealways kind to the weak and unprotected, even if they did have hoofs andhorns, men like William B. (Bat) Masterson and Wyatt Earp. They andtheir kind made the frontier, that Great West which we can now look backupon as the most romantic era of our American History._
_I love it; I love all that was ever connected with it; and to all thosewho are in sympathy with my crude efforts to set forth what little Iknow, to each and every boy who feels a choke in his throat when hereads the closing lines of "In Memory," I say, I have a choke in mythroat too, and I am silently clutching your hand, for that red boy hascrossed the Big Divide and gone to the Happy Hunting Grounds and thewhite boy is saying Farewell._
The Author
CONTENTS
I. An Arrival 1
II. A Surprise 13
III. Mystery 26
IV. Solution 39
V. Bunk-House Talk 51
VI. Boots 66
VII. Education and Other Things 77
VIII. Injun Talks 87
IX. Fish-Hooks and Hooky 115
X. A Hard Job 129
XI. The T Up and Down 139
XII. Felix the Faithless 150
XIII. A Fool's Errand 160
XIV. The Stampede 170
XV. The Cattle-Sheep War 185
XVI. "Medicine" 206
XVII. "The Pride of the West" 218
XVIII. Wonders 229
XIX. Threshing-Time 235
XX. The Story of the Custer Fight 247
XXI. Unrest 263
XXII. The New Order 271
XXIII. Pioneer Days 290
XXIV. "In Memory" 299
ILLUSTRATIONS
They couldn't shoot him--he was going too fast _Frontispiece_
In Front of Them Stood Sitting Bull 16
Advancing into the Road with both Front Paws Extended 120
The Man's Figure disappeared through the Opening, the Bucket falling from his Hands 202
INJUN AND WHITEY TO THE RESCUE