Ross Grant, Tenderfoot

SLOWLY HE WAS LET DOWN
ROSS GRANT TENDERFOOT
JOHN GARLAND
AUTHOR OF Ross Grant, Gold Hunter Ross Grant on the Trail
Illustrated by R. L. Boyer
THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY PHILADELPHIA 1917
COPYRIGHT 1915 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
Ross Grant, Tenderfoot
To Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tewksbury whose life in the Wyoming Mountains has made Ross Grant, Tenderfoot, possible, I cordially dedicate this book
Introduction
When I went over the same route, some time before Ross Grant traveled it, from Cody eighty miles into the snow-capped Shoshones, I found how welcome a Doc Tenderfoot would be in the gold mining camp at the end of the route. There was, in camp, the superintendent of one of the mining companies, a man who had never had any instruction in things medical or surgical, but who, with a steady hand and a cool head, and an acquired knowledge of first aids, was often called on in case of sickness and accident, as there was no doctor nearer than Cody. Such a state of affairs greeted Ross Grant when he arrived with his medical emergency chest and his real knowledge of the use to which its contents should be put.