George Bird Grinnell 
Jack, the Young Ranchman 

Far away in the west, close to the backbone of the continent, lies the sage-brush country where the happenings described in the following pages took place.The story is about real things and about real people, many of whom are alive to-day. The ranch lies in the Rocky Mountains, in a great basin, walled in by mountains on every hand, and 7, 500 feet above the level of the sea.