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THE GREAT

K. & A. TRAIN-ROBBERY




[Illustration: Frontispiece]




The
Great
K. & A.
Robbery

[Illustration: Trains]

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.

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_TO MISS GEORGE BARKER GIBBS._

_My dear George_:

_At your request I originally inscribed this skit to our whole
party. In its republication, however, I c