y strains, all the iron of the old
home-bred frontiersmen. The frontier has been a lasting and ineradicable
influence for the good of the United States. It was there we showed our
fighting edge, our unconquerable resolution, our undying faith. There,
for a time at least, we were Americans.

We had our frontier. We shall do ill indeed if we forget and abandon its
strong lessons, its great hopes, its splendid human dreams.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

ANDY ADAMS, "The Log of a Cowboy," 1903. "The Outlet," 1905. Homely but
excellently informing books done by a man rarely qualified for his task
by long experience in the cattle business and on the trail. Nothing
better exists than Adams's several books for the man who wishes
trustworthy information on the early American cattle business.

GEORGE A. FORSYTH, "The Story of the Soldier," 1900.

GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, "The Story of the Indian," 1895.

EMERSON HOUGH, "The Story of the Cowboy," 1897.

CHARLES HOWARD SHINN, "The Story of the Mine," 1901.

CY WARMAN, "The Story of the Railroad," 1898. The foregoing books of
Appleton's interesting series known as "The Story of the West" are
valuable as containing much detailed information, done by contemporaries
of wide experience.

FRANCIS PARKMAN, "The Oregon Trail," 1901, with preface by the author to
the edition of 18991. This is a reprint of the edition published in 1857
under the title "Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life," or "The California
and Oregon Trail," and has always been held as a classic in the
literature of the West. It holds a certain amount of information
regarding life on the Plains at the middle of the last century. The
original title is more accurate than the more usual one "The Oregon
Trail," as the book itself is in no sense an exclusive study of that
historic highway.

COLONEL R. B. MARCY, U. S. A., "Thirty Years of Army Life on the
Border," 1866. An admirable and very informing book done by an Army
officer who was also a sportsman and a close observer of the conditions
of the life about him. One of the standard books for any library of
early Western literature.

EMERSON HOUGH, "The Story of the Outlaw," 1907. A study of the Western
desperado, with historical narratives of famous outlaws, stories of
noted border movements, Vigilante activities, and armed conflicts on the
border.

NATHANIEL PITT LANGFORD, "Vigilante Days and Ways," 1893. A storehouse
of information done in graphic anecdotal fashion of