Prefaces
Compiled by J. Frank Dobie
- Austin, TX University of Texas Press 1982
- 204 p
Andy Adams, cowboy chronicler -- by Napoleon Augustus Jennings -- Foreword to A Texas Ranger / edited by B.A, Botkin -- A preface on authentic liars -- by Archer B. Gilfillan -- Belling the lead steer -- by John Holland Jenkins -- A salute to Gene Rhodes -- by Ralph Semmes Jackson -- The conservatism of Charles M. Russell -- Charlie Siringo, writer and man -- Preface to A treasury of Western folk-lore / Jim Williams and Out our way -- Captain Cook's place among reminiscencers of the West -- Foreword to Sheep, life on the South Dakota range / Captain John G. Bourke as soldier, writer and man -- Foreword to Recollections of early Texas / James Cox and his Cattle industry -- Helen Hunt Jackson and Ramona -- Introduction to Home on the double bayou / A summary introduction to Frederic Remington -- The gauchos and horses of Hudson and Graham.