TY - BOOK AU - Dair,Spencer TI - Tracked to his lair; or, The pursuit of the Midnight Raider T2 - American Indian Weekly Vol. I, No. 2 AV - PS PY - 2024/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Western stories KW - Dime novels -- Periodicals KW - Indians of North America -- Periodicals KW - Frontier and pioneer life -- United States -- Periodicals N1 - Release date is 2024-01-29; Carla Foust, David Edwards and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Originally published; Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Company, 1910 N2 - "American Indian Weekly Vol. 1, No. 2" by Spencer Dair is a fictional periodical, written in the early 20th century. This particular issue features a story titled "Tracked to His Lair," which revolves around the exploits of a renegade Indian chief named Scalping Louie, who terrorizes ranchers by stealing cattle and inciting chaos. The narrative likely explores themes of bravery, conflict, and the complexities of the relationships between Native Americans and settlers during this period. The opening of the story introduces us to Sam Bowser, the owner of the Double Cross ranch in Arizona, as he is jolted from sleep by a chilling cry in the night. As he and his wife speculate about the disturbing sound, they rally their cowboys in response to the potential danger. The tension escalates when a spectral figure appears near the cattle corral, which is soon revealed to be a ruse orchestrated by the Midnight Raider to facilitate cattle theft. The cowboy crew, led by Bowser, then embarks on a reckless pursuit of the raider amidst growing fear and confusion, setting the stage for a suspenseful cat-and-mouse chase with dire stakes. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72803 ER -