The Taming of the Frontier
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780766194489
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literature: Classics; Essays
First sentence: AS I look back over the few short years that intervene between the reign of Ben Dowell, El Paso's first potentate, and that of Dick Dudley, its present dictator, and compare the paved, pious and stolid city of to-day with the rough, uncouth and very gay town in which I was born, I cannot refrain from heaving a deep and comprehensive wheeze of regret.