INTRODUCTORY. 



THE studies in this volume were all made, as 

 the title indicates, in the West; part of them 

 in Colorado (1891), in Utah (1893), and the 

 remainder (1892) in what I have called " The 

 Middle Country," being Southern Ohio, and 

 West only relatively to New England and New 

 York, where most of my studies have been 

 made. 



Several chapters have appeared in the " Atlan- 

 tic Monthly " and other magazines, and in the 

 " Independent " and " Harper's Bazar," while 

 others are now for the first tune published. 



OLIVE THORNE MILLER. 



