There was something at odds with Jack's experience of desert towns in the picture of a bronzed rancher, his arms loaded with roses, saying, in boyish diffidence: "Mister, you fit him fair and you sure fixed him good.

"You rascal!" exclaimed the delighted rancher, vaulting upon his back in a twinkling.

The hardy ranchers seated themselves with their backs against a broad, flat rock, which rose several feet above their heads.

When this was burned into the flesh of the yearlings, it identified his property, no matter where wandering, and the honest rancher would no more disturb it than he would enter another's home and rob him of his clothing.

This gent Coles comes out of the East to teach us poor ignorant ranchers what right hoss flesh should be.

It visualized pictures of lean ranchers who had brought him flowers in the days of his convalescence; of children gathered around him on the steps of his bungalow; of all the friendly faces brimming good-will into his own on the day of his departure; of a patch of green in desert loneliness, with a summons to arms to defend its arteries of life.

President Riesinberg called upon Beardsley, a prominent and intelligent rancher of the southern wheat-belt.