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A TEXAS MATCHMAKER

by

ANDY ADAMS

Author of 'The Log of a Cowboy'

ILLUSTRATED BY E. BOYD SMITH

1904







[Illustration: ROLLING THE BULL OVER LIKE A HOOP (page 207)]




TO

FRANK H. EARNEST

MOUNTED INSPECTOR U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE

LAREDO, TEXAS




CONTENTS


CHAPTER

    I. LANCE LOVELACE

   II. SHEPHERD'S FERRY

  III. LAS PALOMAS

   IV. CHRISTMAS

    V. A PIGEON HUNT

   VI. SPRING OF '76

  VII. SAN JACINTO DAY

 VIII. A CAT HUNT ON THE FRIO

   IX. THE ROSE AND ITS THORN

    X. AFTERMATH

   XI. A TURKEY BAKE

  XII. SUMMER OF '77

 XIII. HIDE HUNTING

  XIV. A TWO YEARS' DROUTH

   XV. IN COMMEMORATION

  XVI. MATCHMAKING

 XVII. WINTER AT LAS PALOMAS

XVIII. AN INDIAN SCARE

  XIX. HORSE BRANDS

   XX. SHADOWS

  XXI. INTERLOCUTORY PROCEEDINGS

 XXII. SUNSET





LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


ROLLING THE BULL OVER LIKE A HOOP

WE GOT THE AMBULANCE OFF BEFORE SUNRISE

FLASHED A MESSAGE BACK

GAVE THE WILDEST HORSES THEIR HEADS

HE SPED DOWN THE COURSE

UTTERING A SINGLE PIERCING SNORT





CHAPTER I

LANCE