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Chapter 1. The Gun Man‘s Heritage
_ CHAPTER I. THE GUN MAN‘S HERITAGE
Lost Valley lay like a sparkling jewel, fashioned in perfection, cast in the breast of the illimitable mountain country--and forever after forgotten of God.
A tiny world, arrogantly unconscious of any other, it lived its own life, went its own ways, had its own conceptions of law--and they were based upon primeval instincts.
Cattle by the thousand head ran on its level ranges, riders jogged along its trail-less expanses, their broad hats pulled over their eyes, their six-guns at their hips. Corvan, its one town, ran its nightly games, lined its familiar streets with swinging-doored saloons.
Toward the west the Canon Country loomed behind its sharp-faced cliffs, on the east the rolling ranges, dotted with oak and digger-pine, went gradually up to the feet of the stupendous peaks that cut the sapphire skies.
Lost indeed, it was a paradise, a perfect place of peace but for its humans. Through it ran the
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