The Taming of the Frontier
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780548007723
Subjects: Essays; Literary Collections / Essays; Literature - Classics / Criticism
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.