Excerpt from Over Prairie Trails I made thirty-51x of'these trips: seventy-two drives in all. I think I could still rehearse every smallest incident of every _single one of themf With all their weirdness, with all their sometimes dangerous adventure - most of them were made at night, and with hardly ever any regard being paid to the weather or to the state of the roads-they stand out in the vast array of memorable trifles that con stitute the story of my life as among the most memorable ones. Seven drives seem, as it were, lifted above the mass of others as worthy to be described in some detail - _as not too trivial to detain for an hour or so a patient reader's kind attention. L Not that the others lack in interest for myself; but there is little in them of that mildly dramatic, stirring quality which might perhaps make their recital deserving of being heard beyond my own frugal fireside. 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.