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Title: A Breath of Prairie and other stories

Author: Will Lillibridge

Illustrator: J. N. Marchand

Release Date: June 26, 2009 [EBook #29245]

Language: English

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A BREATH OF PRAIRIE

AND OTHER STORIES

By WILL LILLIBRIDGE

THE DOMINANT DOLLAR. Illustrated in color by Lester Ralph.
Crown 8vo . . . $1.50

BEN BLAIR, PLAINSMAN. Frontispiece in color by Maynard Dixon.
Seventieth thousand. Crown 8vo . . . $1.50

QUERCUS ALBA: The Veteran of the Ozarks.
With frontispiece. 16mo. Net . . . $.50

A. C. MCCLURG & CO., Publishers

CHICAGO

[Illustration: She wheeled swiftly round, confronting him. [See
"Journey's End."]]

A BREATH OF PRAIRIE

AND OTHER STORIES

BY WILL LILLIBRIDGE

AUTHOR OF "BEN BLAIR," "THE DOMINANT DOLLAR," ETC.

WITH FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOR

BY J. N. MARCHAND

CHICAGO

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1911

Copyright

A. C. McCLURG & CO.

1911

Published April, 1911

W. J. Hall Printing Company

Chicago

A TRIBUTE

It is an accepted truth, I believe, that every novelist embodies in
the personalities of his heroes some of his own traits of character.
Those who were intimately acquainted with William Otis Lillibridge
could not fail to recognize this in a marked degree. To a casual
reader, the heroes of his five novels might perhaps suggest five
totally different personalities, but one who knows them well will
inevitably recognize beneath the various disguises the same dominant
characteristics in them all. Whether it be Ben Blair the sturdy
plainsman, Bob McLeod the cripple, Dr. Watson, Darley Roberts, or even
How Landor the Indian, one finds the same foundation stones of
character,--repression, virility, firmness of purpose, an abhorrence
of artificiality or affectation,--love of Nature and of Nature's works
rather than things man-made. And these were unquestionably the
pronounced