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A Great Novel 
of the 
Vigilante Days in 
California 
Fohn Sherwood, 
“ Gentleman- 
Gambler,’ from 
Author of “‘Gold,’’ etc. 
“ The Gray Dawn’ 
THE GRAY DAWN 
A Romance of San Francisco 
in the Early ’Fifties . 
*<Tt teems, from first page to last, with the feverish, reck- 
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its civic affairs, its picturesque early journalism.” 
— New York Tribune. 
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African Camp Fires. T/lustrated 
Arizona Nights. Tilustrated - - 
The Blazed Trail. Jllustrated - 
Blazed Trail Stories. Jilustrated 
The Cabin. (Tllustrated- - - - 
Camp and Trail. Tllustrated - - 
The Claim Jumpers - - - - 
The Forest. JTJilustrated - - - 
Gold. Tilustrated’ - - - = - 
The Land of Footprints. Illustrated 
The Mountains. Tilustrated - - 
The Mystery (with Sam’l Hopkins 
Adams) - - - - - - - - 
The Pass. Jllustrated - - - - 
The Rediscovered Country. 
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The Riverman. Tllustrated - - “ 
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