Excerpt from The Freebooters of the Wilderness Or to take the case Of the timber thefts, I refer to two hundred thousand acres in California. I might have referred to a million and a half in Washington and Oregon. Or referring to the mineral lands, I mention two thousand acres Of coal. I might have told another story of fifty thousand acres, or yet an other of three hundred thousand acres of gold and Silver lands. When I narrate the Shooting Of a man at the head Of a coal Shaft, the stealing Of Government timber by the half million dollars a year through the hatchet trick, or the theft Of two thousand acres by dummies, I am stating facts known to every Westerner out on the Spot. 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.