"Never saw either before. Better get your stuff together. This train
is fast only when it stops. It drags along over the country, but when
it gets into a station it's always in a hurry to get away," laughed
Tad.

A few minutes later the party of bronzed young men sprang from the car
to the station platform, where they instantly became the center of a
throng of curious villagers.

Readers of the preceding volumes of this series are already too well
acquainted with the Pony Rider Boys to need a formal introduction. As
told in "THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN THE ROCKIES," the lads had set out
from their homes in Missouri for a summer's vacation in the saddle.
That first volume detailed how the lads penetrated the fastnesses of
the Rockies, hunted big game and how they finally discovered the Lost
Claim, which they won after fighting a battle with the mountaineers,
thus earning for themselves quite a fortune.

In "THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXAS," the boys were again seen to
advantage. There they joined in a cattle drive across the state as
cowboys. They played an exciting part in the rough life of the cowmen,
meeting with many stirring adventures. It will be remembered how, in
this story, Tad Butler saved a large part of the herd, besides
performing numerous heroic deeds, including the saving of the life of
a member of the party from a swollen river. At the end of their
journey, they solved a deep mystery-- a mystery that had perplexed and
worried the cattle men, besides causing them heavy financial loss.

In "THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN MONTANA," the scene shifted to the old
Custer Trail, the battle ground of one of the most tragic events in