[Illustration: "They picked up our trail somehow ... they're about
three miles back on the flat just a-burnin' the ground"]




THE HEART OF THE RANGE

BY WILLIAM PATTERSON WHITE

AUTHOR OF

"_The Rider of Golden Bar_," "_Hidden Trails_," "_Lynch Lawyers_,"
"_The Owner of the Lazy D_," "_Paradise Bend_," _etc_.


1921




TO RANGER

A GOOD HORSE AND A BETTER FRIEND




CONTENTS