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Sally of Missouri

Sally of Missouri

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SALLY OF
MISSOURI

BY R. E. YOUNG

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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co.: Mcmiii


 

Copyright, 1903, by
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.

Published, October, 1903

 


 

Dedicated to Florence Wickliffe

 


CONTENTS

  •       PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THE STORY
  •       I.  Steering of New York
  •      II.  Piney of the Woods
  •     III.  The Promised Land
  •      IV.  For the Benefit of Carington
  •       V.  Boom Time in the Town that Jack Built
  •      VI.  Father and Daughter
  •     VII.  The Garden of Dreams
  •    VIII.  When a Girl Finds Herself
  •      IX.  Good-Bye!
  •       X.  Who's Got the Tigmores?
  •      XI.  Tall Things
  •     XII.  The Colossus of Canaan
  •    XIII.  Miss Sally Madeira's Sweetheart
  •     XIV.  When the Meal Gave Out
  •      XV.  A Mistake Somewhere
  •     XVI.  Madeira's Peace
  •    XVII.  Just a Boy
  •   XVIII.   A Pretty Precariousness
  •     XIX.  When Dreams Come True
  •       ADVERTISEMENTS

 

SALLY OF MISSOURI

 


 

PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS IN THE STORY

Steering, of New York
Old Bernique, of French St. Louis
Piney, of the Woods
Crittenton Madeira, of Canaan
Sally, of Missouri

There are also some kind-hearted people:
Farmers, Housewives, Store-keepers, Miners, etc.

 


Chapter One

STEERING OF NEW YORK

"Hoo-ee-ow-ohme!"

It was half a sob, half a laugh, and, half sobbing, half laughing, the young man stopped his horse on the crest of the Tigmore Hills, in the Ozark Uplift, raised in his stirrups, and looked the country through and through, as though he must see into its very heart. In the brilliant mid-afternoon light the Southwest unrolled below him and around him in a ragged bigness and an unconquered loneliness. As far as eye could reach tumbled the knobs, the flats, the waste weedy places, the gullies, the rock-pitted sweeps of table-land and the timbered hills of the Uplift. The buffalo grass trembled across the lowlands in long, shaking billows that had all the effect of scared flight. From the base of the Tigmores a line of river bottom stretched westward, and beyond the bottom curved a pale, quiet river. In the distance wraiths of blue smoke falteringly bespoke the presence of people and cabins; on a cleared hill an object that might be horse or dog or man was silhouetted, small and vague; and in the farthest west the hoister of a deserted zinc mine cut up against the sky a little lonely way. The near and

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