From his earliest days the dog Crusoe knows danger for young hunter DickVarley must snatch him from the clutches of a vagrant who has clubs the pupand tosses ... » 

From his earliest days the dog Crusoe knows danger for young hunter DickVarley must snatch him from the clutches of a vagrant who has clubs the pupand tosses him over a fireSoon Dick has a chance to win permanent care of Crusoe in a shooting match.But how can he win? His rifle is but a sorry affair. Even when it does firewhich is not very often it remains a matter of doubt to Dick whether theslight deviations from the direct line made by his bullets are the result ofhis or its bad shooting.But Dick Varley has his heart deadset on winning that wild pup.R.M. Ballantyne author of The Pirate City and The Madman and the Piratehere rides into the Old West of Prairie Indians wild mustangs thunderingherds of buffalo and the majestic but deadly Grizzly. In this Story of theWestern Prairies he tells of the dangerous scrapes and close escapes thatfirmly knot together the hearts of a young man and his closest and most devotedof friends. «