Cattle-Ranch to College: The True Tales of a Boy's Adventures in the Far West

NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE Co MDCCCXCIX Copyright, 1899, by DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO
TO MY MOTHER, KINDLY CRITIC, COUNSELLOR, AND FRIEND, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED.

This is a true tale of a boy's life in the West twenty-five years ago. It is an account of his amusements, his trials, his work, his play. The incidents described actually happened and are described substantially as the boy related them to the writer.
The wild and woolly West is fast vanishing, and a great deal of the adventurous life is going with it. Buffalo hunts are things of the past; encounters with Indians that were experienced in the time of John Worth's boyhood are now happily very rare; railroads have penetrated the cattle country, and vast herds of cattle are no longer driven long distances to the shipping point, so that the consequent danger, hardship, and excitement are largely done away with.
In places the great prairies have been fenced, in others grain grows where heretofore only buffalo, cattle, and horses ranged, and much of the free, wild life of the cowboy, the ranchman, and the miner is gone for all time.

It is hoped that this book will be of interest, not because of its novelty but of its truthfulness. The author feels that the story of a boy who has passed through the stern training of a frontier life to an honorable place in an Eastern university will be acceptable to boys young and old.