Ridin' 13 The Song of the Leather 16 A Bad Half Hour 19 From Town 22 A Cowboy's Prayer 26 The Christmas Trail 29 A Border Affair 33 The Bunk-House Orchestra 36 The Outlaw 40 The Legend of Boastful Bill 43 The Tied Maverick 48 A Roundup Lullaby 51 The Trail o' Love 55 Bachin' 58 The Glory Trail 61 Bacon 65 The Lost Pardner 67 God's Reserves 70 The Married Man 74 The Old Cow Man 78 The Plainsmen 82 The Westerner 86 The Wind is Blowin' 89 On Boot Hill 91 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _When the last free trail is a prim, fenced lane_ _And our graves grow weeds through forgetful Mays,_ _Richer and statelier then you'll reign,_ _Mother of men whom the world will praise._ _And your sons will love you and sigh for you,_ _Labor and battle and die for you,_ _But never the fondest will understand_ _The way we have loved you, young, young land._ --_Frontispiece._ FACING PAGE _When my feet is in the stirrups_ _And my hawse is on the bust._ 14 _There's a time to be slow and a time to be quick._ 18 _We have gathered fightin' pointers from the famous bronco steed._ 24 _The taut ropes sing like a banjo string_ _And the latigoes creak and strain._ 40 _I wait to hear him ridin' up behind._ 68