I. AFTER THE CELEBRATION 11
II. ON THE DIVIDE 23
III. IN THE BIG PASTURE 35
IV. AT THE CORRAL 47
V. A BIT OF THE PAST 81
VI. THE DRIFT FENCE 91
VII. THINGS THAT ENDURE 115
VIII. CONCERNING BRANDS 133
IX. THE TAILHOLT MOUNTAIN OUTFIT 159
X. THE RODEO 181
XI. AFTER THE RODEO 197
XII. FRONTIER DAY 239
XIII. IN GRANITE BASIN 261
XIV. AT MINT SPRING 281
XV. ON CEDAR RIDGE 297
XVI. THE SKY LINE 323

[Illustration: WHEN A MAN'S A MAN]




CHAPTER I.

AFTER THE CELEBRATION.


There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man. It is a land of
granite and marble and porphyry and gold--and a man's strength must be
as the strength of the primeval hills. It is a land of oaks and cedars