THIS BOOK IS A TRIBUTE TO 

 THE WEST. 



I have used many Western phrases as 

 necessary to the Western setting. 



I can only add that the events related 

 really happened in the Rocky Moun- 

 tains of the United States and Canada ; 

 and this is why, being a woman, I wanted 

 to tell about them, in the hope that some 

 going-to-Europe-in-the-summer-woman 

 may be tempted to go West instead. 



G. G. S.-T. 



New York City, September ist, 1900. 



