The Trail Of The White Mule

Excerpt from The Trail of the White Mule Casey hogged the next safety-zone line to the deep disgust of a young movie star in a cream and-silver racer, and pulled in to the curb just where he could not be passed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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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Casey Ryan knew his desert. Also, from long and not so happy experience, he knew Fords, orthought he did. He made the mistake, however, of buying a nearly new one and asking it toaccomplish the work of a twin six from the moment he got behind the wheel.He was fortunate in buying a demonstrator's car with a hundred miles or so to its credit. Hearrived in Barstow before the proprietor of a supply store had gone to bed-for which he wasgrateful to the Ford. He loaded up there with such necessities for desert prospecting as he had notwaited to buy in Los Angeles, turned short off the main highway where traffic officers might besummoned by telephone to lie in wait for him, and took the steeper and less used trail north. He wasstill mad and talking bitterly to himself in an undertone while he drove-telling the new Ford whathe thought of city rules and city ways, and driving it as no Ford was ever meant by its maker to bedriven.The country north of Barstow is not to be taken casually in the middle of a dark night, even byCasey Ryan and a Ford. The roads, once you are well away from help, are all pretty much alike, andall bad. And although the white, diamond-shaped signs of a beneficent automobile club are postedhere and there, where wrong turnings are most likely to prove disastrous to travelers, Casey Ryanwas in the mood to lick any man who pointed out a sign to him. He did see one or two in spite ofhimself and gave a grunt of contempt. So, where he should have turned to the east (his intentionbeing to reach Nevada by way of Silver Lake) he continued traveling north and didn't know it.Driving across the desert on a dark night is confusing to the most observant wayfarer. On eitherside, beyond the light of the car, illusory forest stands for mile upon mile. Up hill or down or acrossthe level it is the same-a narrow, winding trail through dimly seen woods. The most familiar roadgrows strange; the miles are longer; you drive through mystery and silence and the world around youis a formless void.Dawn and a gorgeous sunrise painted out the woods and revealed barren hilltops which Caseydid not know. Because he did not know them, he guessed shrewdly that he was on his way to thewilderness of mountains and sand which lies west of Death Valley. Small chance he had of hearingthe shop whistles blow in Las Vegas at noon, as he had expected.

Casey Ryan is a stagecoach driver known for fighting, gambling and drinking, but also for being the fastest one there is. Once he trades his coach for a Ford, things take a turn for the worse and Casey finds himself without car, money and job. In order to get back on his feet, Casey decides to start the search for the legendary Injun Jim's gold mine. The Trail of the White Mule – Casey Ryan tried to settle down, but his restless spirit just couldn't take long. One day Casey bought a Ford and a tent, and went on a prospecting trip, leaving everything behind once again. Bertha Muzzy Bower (1871-1940) was an American author who wrote novels and short stories about the American Old West. She is best known for her first novel "Chip of the Flying U" about Flying U Ranch and the "Happy Family" of cowboys who lived there. The novel rocketed Bower to fame, and she wrote an entire series of novels set at the Flying U Ranch. Several of Bower's novels were turned into films.