Life in the Saddle, Vol. 21 » (Reprint)

Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872 at age seventeen to work on a ranch. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at age seventy-nine he began writing articles for Ranch Romances about the Old West he knew and loved. In Life in the Saddle, Mary Whatley Clarke has arranged his published articles, his letters, and transcriptions of his conversations. Collinson tells of the last tragic days of buffalo hunting on the Plains, clashes of hunters and cowboys with the Plains Indians, the character of trail drives, and the definitive nature of violence, particularly at gunpoint.