PUTTING ON THE BRAND 



If I had never seen a Umatilla "fuzz-tail," didn't 

 know what "bulldogging" meant, and was altogether 

 a stranger to the Pacific Northwest — if, I say, such 

 misfortunes were mine, yet would I revel in Let 'Er 

 Buck, because of the downright dramatic interest of 

 the book and its extraordinary illustrations. 



But as I happen to have had the good fortune to 

 reside in Oregon for some years, and as I know at 

 first-hand somewhat of the range country and its 

 people, Let 'Er Buck has found an especially ap- 

 preciative publisher. It is truly a breath of the real 

 West of yesterday and today, alluring for us in the 

 East, inspiring, I am sure, to every reader to whom 

 the West means home. 



Charles Wellington Furlong is an ideal author for 

 such an epic of the out-of-doors. He knows. He has 

 lived the life of which he writes. He has worked 

 and played in the cattle country; its people are 

 his friends and its ways are his. He understands the 

 Round-Up intimately, not only as observer but as 

 participant. 



