PUTTING ON THE BRAND 



What an adventuresome, varied life our author has 

 led! Explorer, painter, writer, university professor, 

 lecturer, soldier, publicist! He has painted in Paris 

 and been a professor at Cornell. He has written half 

 a dozen successful books and countless magazine arti- 

 cles. He has slept in the guanaco skin tents of the 

 primitive Patagonians, and has crossed the Atlantic 

 in a twenty-two ton schooner. He has lectured on art 

 in Boston and fought desert thieves in the Sahara. He 

 has ridden with the wild tribesmen of Morocco and 

 cow-punched with the vaqueros of the Venezuelan 

 llanos. . . . And naturally he loves the ways of the Old 

 West, so gloriously repictured, in action and spirit, 

 each year at the Pendleton Round-Up — and loves the 

 Round-Up itself, whose story as here recorded be- 

 comes a lasting chapter in the history of the well-won 

 West. 



Last autumn Furlong and I were automobiling near 

 New York City. We talked of Oregon, because we 

 both love its mountains, forests, and far-flung grain 

 and cattle lands. 



"The Round-Up's a book in itself," said I, remi- 

 niscing of Pendleton. 



"Of course," he replied. "And I am going to write 

 it. You publish it." 



He did. 



We did. 



There is a very large measure of personal satisfac- 

 tion in being associated with this book, and an equal 

 pleasure in recalling the characteristically enthusiastic 

 support which the project has received from Pendleton 

 and her people. . . . And it is a further satisfaction to 

 realize that Let 'Er Buck undoubtedly will cause 

 many Eastern readers to go West and see for them- 



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