The range-men, acquainted with danger and risk, loving excitement, balked at no hazard.

Knowing no settled way of life, ignorant of a roof, careless of the ways of other lands, this town was a toy to them, a jest, just as all life, homeless, womanless, had been a jest.

By day and by night, ceaseless, crude, barbaric, there went on a continuous carousal, which would have been joyless backed by a vitality less superb, an experience less young.

Money and life--these two things we guard most sacredly in the older societies, the first most jealously, the latter with a lesser care.

In Ellisville these were the commodities in least esteem.