Excerpt from With Some Incidental Relation to the Woman Just where the foothills lose themselves in the prairie lay huddled a little town or camp, trailing back through scattered cabins to the mining enter prises in one direction, straggling out on the prairie through widely separated farm shacks in the other. Every door and window was shut and barricaded against the searching storm. The night was far spent. Except from the principal saloon of the place, where some reckless spirits still held high, defiant revel, no feeble glimmer of light endeavor ing to pierce the white opacity of the driving snow was visible from any quarter save one. 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.