Good Hunting 



peculiar mental make-up necessary for 

 success in an employment far out of the 

 usual paths of civilized occupations. A 

 great many of these young men think of 

 ranching as a business which they might 

 possibly take up, and what I am about 

 to say 1 is meant as much for a warning 



t to one class as for advice to the other. 



Ranching is a rather indefinite term. 

 In a good many parts of the West a ranch 

 simply means a farm ; but I shall not use 

 it in this sense, since the advantages and 

 disadvantages of a farmer's life, whether 

 it be led in New Jersey or Iowa, have 

 often been dwelt upon by men infinitely 

 more competent than I am to pass judg- 



; ment. Accordingly, when I speak of 

 ranching I shall mean some form of stock- 

 raising or sheep-farming as practised now 

 in the wilder parts of the United States, 



1 Written in 1896. 



