With an apt and able introduction by J. Frank Dobie to the work and the life of this ""cardplaying, poolplaying, cowpunching natural son of the American West"", this puts between covers the best writing of the man who romanticized the range in the late 19th century. Of his fourteen novels, four have been selected here, Paso por Aqui, The Trusty Knaves, Bransford of Rainbow Range, and Good Men and True, with two novelettes, four short stories, one narrative, essay and poem. A cowboy classicist given permanent presentation.