The Untamed
“So much had three days with the wild linked up the slack chain of her blood tie.”--Shiela
The Untamed
Range Life in the Southwest
By
George Pattullo
Toronto
McLeod & Allen
1911
Copyright 1908, 1909, 1910 by The Curtis Publishing Company
Copyright 1910 by The S. S. McClure Company
Copyright 1911 by The Phillips Publishing Company
Copyright 1911 by Desmond FitzGerald, Inc.
TO
FRANK B. MOSON
and the boys of the O R, R O, and Turkey Track
My coffee I boil without being ground.
The fire I kindle with chips gathered round.
My books are the brooks, my sermons the stones;
My parson’s a wolf on pulpit of bones.
The sky is my ceiling; my carpet’s the grass;
My music’s the lowing of herds as they pass.
--Ballad of The Trail Boss.
Acknowledgment is made to The Saturday Evening Post, McClure’s Magazine, and The American Magazine for permission to republish these stories.