Jack Ranger's Western Trip; Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range

A lively boarding-school youth organizes daring pranks and thwarts rival mischief at a lakeside academy, then travels West to work on a ranch. The narrative alternates schoolroom episodes and frontier exploits: counterplots against antagonists, a burglar scare, a staged seance, oil-well excitement, cattle stampedes, mountain-lion hunts, wilderness survival, captive escapes, and a striking discovery related to the land. Through episodic risks, resourcefulness, and friendship he shifts from campus mischief to practical responsibility on the range, concluding with a large roundup and the resolution of lingering dangers.