To the Last Man

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was inevitable that in my efforts to write romantic history of the great West I should at length come to the story of a feud. For long I have steered clear of this rock. But at last I have reached it and must go over it driven by my desire to chronicle the stirring events of pioneer days. Even to-day it is not possible to travel into the remote corners of the West without seeing the lives of people still affected by a fighting past. How can the truth be told about the pioneering of the West if the struggle the fight the blood be left out? It cannot be done. How can a novel be stirring and thrilling as were those times unless it be full of sensation? My long labors have been devoted to making stories resemble the times they depict. I have loved the West for its vastness its contrast its beauty and color and life for its wildness and violence and for the fact that I have seen how it developed great men and women who died unknown and unsung