Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit.
Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities.
A new foreword by Jim Hoy also appears in this edition. The book is one that should be included in any library of frontier history, and it is one that the general reader will really enjoy reading. The Romance of the Landscape , both published by the University of Oklahoma Press.