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.
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