The Lone Star Ranger

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It may seem strange to you that out of all the stories I heard on the Rio Grande I should choose as first that of Buck Duane - outlaw and gunman. But indeed Ranger Coffee's story of the last of the Duanes has haunted me and I have given full rein to imagination and have retold it in my own way. It deals with the old law - the old border days-therefore it is better first. Soon perchance I shall have the pleasure of writing of the border of to-day which in Joe Sitter's laconic speech Shore is 'most as bad an' wild as ever! In the North and East there is a popular idea that the frontier of the West is a thing long past and rememb-ered now only in stories. As I think of this I remember Ranger Sitter when he made that remark while he grimly stroked an unhealed bullet wound. And I remember the giant Vaughn that typical son of stalwart Texas sitting there quietly with bandaged head his thoughtful eye boding ill to the outlaw who had ambushed him. Only a few months have passed since then - when I had my memorable sojourn with you - and yet in that short time Russell and Moore have crossed the Divide like Rangers.