Excerpt from Frontier Folk The occasional traveller who may have been told that there were ranches on his trail, and that he need not take tents or camp equipage for cooking, will, if he be new to these people, or have regard for his digestion, find to his disgust that during his stay he is a vassal at the castle of Giant Despair. He is alluded to by his host as a tender-foot, a word which is supposed to sum up everything that is contemptible. He may have scaled Alps or marched with armies, but a tender-foot he will be in the estimation of his host, until he may be forced by circumstances to live a hundred miles further out than any one else, or unless he learns to carry food to his mouth with his knife. On the other hand, the only term of opprobrium which can be felt by these people is that of Missourian. Why this should be so construed it is difficult to say; but the name seems to imply all that is worth less and disagreeable. Settlers from Virginia and from Georgia are sure on first acquaintance to in form you of their place of nativity with a pride which assumes that to have been born there fur nishes them with blue blood; but the Missourian only mentions the last place he tarried at on his journey to the setting sun as the spot he hails from. Some of these good people, particularly those who left Missouri during the war, seem to forget that fifteen years have passed since that con flict ended.' Their isolation has given them plenty of time and Opportunity to brood over the wrongs of the South, with none to assuage their wrath; and they are still as bitter against abolitionists and Lincoln's hirelings as in the days when such things were. 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.