Tramp: Poems of the West (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This humble volume is intended to be simply a rough chronicle of some vivified wild and wooly western stories, and is based upon events that have occurred in the sub-strata of western life. The characters, as well as the incidents, are all true, as can be attested by many of my readers. I make no apology for the vernacular, the diction or the syntax, and if among the debris you can extract a few grains of pure gold, my mission will have been accomplished. Some of my characters are still living. The most of them occupy positions of trust, some few of them are still prospecting in the Rockies or on the deserts of the Wild West. Some sleep in unmarked graves upon the mountain side amid the crooning of the Pignon Pines. They were all my friends. I knew no bad men in the. West; they all had many good traits about them, and the roughest of them were the most charitable. They made unchronicled history. The history of the mining camp is nearly obsolete. We may find a few that are reached by rail, but the old mining camp reached by the Concord Coach or the Freigh ter is fast passing away. To the living actors who took part in those scenes this book will bring many a kind remembrance, and to them, with all of its imperfections, I bequeath it.

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