Excerpt from Badlands and Broncho Trails These sketches are not intended to make up a history of the badlands, nor a story of the occupations of the people who make a living therein. They are merely re lief points in the monotony of every-day events and it is hoped they will stir in the reader's vein the pulse of interest in the Badlands and in the human side of the rancher's life. It is a commonplace to say that fact is stronger than fiction, truth more romantic than romance. The life scenes in the Badlands are really pictures in action sometimes pathetic but aways virile and stirring. Almost all of the frontier life and frontier types have passed, and will never be seen again in their picturesque setting. The stories of our Homeric age are worth record ing, and I deem no apology is necessary if I venture to add a few pictures, however crude, to the romantic gallery of North Da kota's permanent frontier. 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.