SLAPS ON THE BACK TO THOSE 

 WHO HELPED 



A small portion of the material in this book has ap- 

 peared in the form of magazine articles in Harper's 

 Magazine and World's Work. 



My sincere acknowledgments are due to the follow- 

 ing: — Mr. Robert Swan of New York and Canton, 

 Mass., former ranch owner, for stimulating my inter- 

 est in the West through his own love of God's country 

 and for bringing me into first direct contact with the 

 cowboy and range on the old Nine Quarter Circle in 

 the Taylor Fork country of Montana : the late William 

 F. Cody (Buffalo Bill), who through his striking per- 

 sonality and healthy romance embodied in his Wild 

 West Show concept, first set my boyhood imagination 

 westward working. 



To the following Pendletonians : Mr. James H. 

 Sturgis, of Sturgis and Storie, rancher and business 

 man and former Round-Up Livestock Director, whose 

 close friendship and generous assistance, not only 

 helped inspire my initial interest in this book, but aided 

 in the solution of some of the practical problems con- 

 nected with it; the late Sheriff Tillman D. Taylor, 

 eight years President of the Round-Up; the late Mark 

 Moorhouse, first Arena Director; Samuel R. Thomp- 



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