02174cam a22003613u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000280011324500170014126400510015830000470020933600260025633700260028233800360030850000620034450000310040650000310043750800540046852010420052253400650156465300180162965300200164765300220166765300230168985600570171285600430176978416UtSlPG20260610134822.0mcr n260607r20261929utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aJames, Will,d1892-194210aOn the dodge 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aProduced from the January 1930 issue of Redbook Magazine.  aIllustrated by the author.  aRelease date is 2026-04-10  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aOn the dodge by Will James is a Western short story written in the early 20th century. Centered on frontier justice and survival, it follows a drifting cowboy who is mistaken for a bank robber and must outwit a posse, recover his stolen buckskin horse, and prove his innocence.

The narrator tracks his stolen horse, is seized by a posse, and spends a tense night under guard at a ranch, where a sympathetic young woman helps him escape with a fast mount and supplies. After a long chase and clever evasions—mixing his trail with mustangs and ditching his saddle—he stumbles on the outlaws’ hidden camp and his buckskin. An ambush leaves him bound, but he feigns injury, draws a hidden boot gun, and sparks a close gunfight that wounds him and drops one outlaw. The posse, drawn by the shots, arrives to capture the remaining men and reveal their wounded companion as a government agent. Cleared at last, the cowboy rides away on his buckskin, thinking of the girl who believed in him. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cChicago, IL: The McCall Company, 1929  aShort stories  aWestern stories  aAdventure stories  aCowboys -- Fiction4 uhttps://archive.org/details/sim_redbook_1930-01_54_340uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78416