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cago College of Dentistry and in Haskell's Post-Graduate 

 School of Dentistry, and has since maintained his home 

 dental office at Billings, acquiring an extended reputation as 

 an expert in both mechanical and surgical branches of den- 

 tistry. The genial Doctor is a true "old-timer," a man of 

 honesty and integrity, charitable and generous to his fellow 

 men. He has ever been a total abstainer from intoxicating 

 liquors. Honored as a citizen, reverenced as a pioneer, few 

 people of the state of his adoption stand higher in the estima- 

 tion of the public. 



We have closely adhered to the plain vernacular used 

 by the Doctor and trust that the reader will fully appreciate 

 the thrilling interest of the narrative. Of the numerous 

 illustrations, so profusely scattered through the work, too 

 much cannot be said of their accuracy and value. Many are 

 from photographs taken by Doctor Allen himself, in localities 

 and under circumstances never again to be repeated. The 

 Past of the Great West here comes once again to the reader, 

 in all of its romance, peril and enjoyment, and, in the perusal 

 of these pages, the greatly changed and practical Present will 

 be for the time forgotten. 



THE PUBLISHERS. 



