THE GREAT
K. & A. TRAIN-ROBBERY

The Great K. & A. Robbery

By

Paul Leicester Ford
Author of The Honorable Peter Stirling

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1897

Copyright, 1896,
By J. B. Lippincott Company.

Copyright, 1897,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.



University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U. S. A.

TO

MY TRAVELLING COMPANIONS

ON SPECIALS 218 AND 97

THIS ENDEAVOR TO WEAVE INTO A STORY SOME OF OUR
OVERLAND HAPPENINGS AND ADVENTURES

IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

TO MISS GEORGE BARKER GIBBS.

My dear George:

At your request I originally inscribed this skit to our wholeparty. In its republication, however, I can but feel that thededication should be more particular. Written because you askedit, first read aloud to beguile our ride across the greatAmerican desert, and finally printed because you wished a copy asa souvenir of our journeyings, no one can so naturally be calledupon to stand sponsor to the little tale. Should the story butgive its readers a fraction of the pleasure I owe to yourkindness, its success is assured.

Faithfully yours,

PAUL LEICESTER FORD.

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