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A young woman on a horse suddenly stumbles upon a dead body of a man and her pet dog makes a dash towards the tall grasses. Has he sighted something? Who is the dead man? Is there a threat to her very life?Jackson Gregory was an American teacher, journalist, and writer. Gregory authored more than 40 fiction novels and a number of short stories. Several of his tales were used as the basis of films released between 1916 and 1944, including the 1917 film titled "The Man from Painted Post."

A young woman on a horse suddenly stumbles upon a dead body of a man and her pet dog makes a dash towards the tall grasses. Has he sighted something? Who is the dead man? Is there a threat to her very life?Jackson Gregory was an American teacher, journalist, and writer. Gregory authored more than 40 fiction novels and a number of short stories. Several of his tales were used as the basis of films released between 1916 and 1944, including the 1917 film titled "The Man from Painted Post."

• TRILOGY - Three of American author Jackson Gregory’s westerns are bound together in this Kindle book: The Short Cut & Man to Man & The Everlasting WhisperTHE SHORT CUT: A western murder mysteryThe woman breathed deeply as her dog, Shep, found something in the deep grass and went snarling across the water -- almost under her horse's legs. Not ten steps from the edge of the water her mare's nostrils suddenly quivered and she trembled a moment. So primitive was her urge to flee from death, she could not get closer to the spot where a man lay dead in the sunshineMAN TO MANIt had been three months since Steve Packard had sailed out of a South Sea port and three days since he had ridden out of the sun-baked town of San Juan. Word of his father's death had come to him. The world was his. Ranch Number Ten belonged to him now. His mood changed quickly however when he spotted a young woman in his path. Later, perhaps, he would admit that she was amazingly pretty; that the curves of her little white body were delightfully perfect. At any another time, that would have put sheer delirium into a man's blood.EVERLASTING WHISPER: A Tale of the California Wilderness (1922)It was Springtime in the California Sierra when a man on a cliff top watched as two figures were torn apart. One drew suddenly back. The other fell through the gorges, plunging straight down and striking against a ragged rock. The man who had seen all this from his own slope spoke aloud for the first time: "Swen Brodie. There's not another man in the mountains brute enough for that."About The AuthorAmerican writer Jackson Gregory (1882 –1943) was a teacher, journalist and novelist born in California. Jackson began his career as a San Francisco newspaper reporter and was later a high school principal. He worked in Illinois, Texas, and New York. The family eventually settled in California and Jackson became a prolific writer of western and detective stories. Several of his stories were the basis of Hollywood films including The Man from Painted Post. Other Books by Jackson Gregory include: Under Handicap: A Novel (1914)Wolf Breed(1916)Six Feet Four (1918)The Bells of San Juan (1919)

Jackson Gregory was an American author (1882- 1943). His most famous works include Under Handicap (1914), The Outlaw (1916), The Short Cut (1916), Wolf bread (1916), The Joyous Trouble Maker (1918), Six Feet Four (1918), Judith of Blue Lake Ranch (1919), The Bells of San Juan (1919), Man to Man (1920), Ladyfingers (1920), The Desert Valley (1921), Daughter of the Sun (1921), The Everlasting Whisper: A Tale of the California Wilderness (1922), The Wilderness Trail (1923), Timber-Wolf (1923), The Maid of the Mountain (1925), The Desert Thoroughbred (1926), Captain Cavalier (1927), Emerald Trails (1928), Redwood and Gold (1928), Sentinel of the Desert (1929), Mystery at Spanish Hacienda (1929), The Trail to Paradise (1930), The Silver Star (1931), The Island of Allure (1931), Riders Across the Border (1932), The House of the Opal (1932), The Shadow on the Mesa (1933), Red Rivals (1933), A Case for Mr Paul Savoy (1933), Ru, The Conqueror (1933), High Courage (1934) and The Emerald Murder Trap (1934).

Here was a small stream of water, bright, clear and cool, running its merry way among the tall pines, hurrying to the dense shade of the lower valley. The grass on its banks stood tall, lush and faintly odorous, fresh with the newly come springtime, delicately scented with the thickly strewn field flowers. The sunlight lay bright and warm over all; the sky was blue with a depth of colour intensified by the few great white clouds drifting lazily across it. No moving thing within all the wide rolling landscape save the sun-flecked water, the softly stirring grass and rustling forests, the almost motionless white clouds. For two miles the hills billowed away gently to the northward, where at last they were swept up into the thickly timbered, crag-crested mountains. For twice two miles toward the west one might guess the course of the stream before here, too, the mountains shut in, leaving only Echo Canon's narrow gap for the cool water to slip through. To the south and to the east ridges and hollows and mountains, and beyond a few fast melting patches of last winter's snow clinging to the lofty summits, looking like fragments broken away from the big white clouds and resting for a moment on the line where land and sky met.

Here was a small stream of water, bright, clear and cool, running its merry way among the tall pines, hurrying to the dense shade of the lower valley. The grass on its banks stood tall, lush and faintly odorous, fresh with the newly come springtime, delicately scented with the thickly strewn field flowers. The sunlight lay bright and warm over all; the sky was blue with a depth of colour intensified by the few great white clouds drifting lazily across it.

Excerpt from The Short CutSurely the rider was just what the owner of the Voice, half laughing, half crooning, tenderly lilting, must be. It seemed that only since the dawn of to day had she become a woman having been a child un til the dusk of yesterday. The wide grey eyes, look ing out upon a gentle aspect of life, were inclined to be merry and musing at the same time, soft with maidenhood's day dreaming, tender with pleasant thoughts. A child of the outdoors, her skin sun tinged to a warm golden brown, her hair sunburnt where it slipped out of the shadow of her big hat, her lips red with young health, her slender body in its easy, confident carriage showing how the muscles under the soft skin were strong and capable.At her saddle horn, in its case, was a camera; snapped to her belt and resting against her left hip, a pair of field glasses.The horse played at drinking, pretending a thirst which it did not feel, and began to paw the clear water into muddiness. The dog ran on, turned again, barked an invitation to its mistress to join in the search for adventures, and plunged into the tall grass.The girl's song died away, her lips stilled by the hush of the coming noonday. For a moment she was very silent, so motionless that she seemed scarcely to breathe.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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