Bucky O'Connor: A Tale of the Unfenced Border

Chapter 3: To My Brother EDGAR C. RAINE

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An ebullient adventurer narrates a string of episodic frontier exploits set off by a striking encounter on a transcontinental train, where a broad-shouldered lawman intrudes on the company of a reserved young woman. The tale moves through border towns, revolutions, armed holdups, secret chambers, hidden valleys, and wilderness pursuits, alternating brisk action with wry humor and quiet observation. Scenes emphasize frontier justice, loyalty, and resourcefulness, and the narrative links compact, self-contained episodes into a lively portrait of risk, survival, and the untamed landscape along an unfenced border.

To My Brother

EDGAR C. RAINE

MY DEAR WANDERER:

I write your name on this page that you may know we hold you not less in our thoughts because you have heard and answered again the call of the frozen North, have for the time disappeared, swallowed in some of its untrodden wilds. As in those old days of 59 Below On Bonanza, the long Winter night will be of interminable length. Armed with this note of introduction then, Bucky O’Connor offers himself, with the best bow of one Adventurer to another, as a companion to while away some few of those lonely hours.

March, 1910, Denver.