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Excerpt from My Host the Enemy, and Other Tales: Sketches of Life and Adventure on the Border Line of the West The incidents of actual adventure upon our remote frontiers have often been of a startling nature, sur passing even the inventions of the fiction writer. Out of the experience of a boyhood spent in the upper Missouri country, and ten years of after life as plains man and mountaineer, this little volume of stories is written. In it the writer has attempted to preserve the true spirit of adventure and the real atmosphere of our later American frontier. Many of the inci dents related were oi actual occurrence, and in two or three instances I am indebted to western newspapers for the materials of the story. In one of these narra tives, marked in the index, there is an adaptation of a pioneer's story so simply and earnestly told that it carried in its atmosphere the best evidence of truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.