Excerpt from The Gold-Gated West: Songs and Poems At the age of fifteen he was employed in the sut ler's store, owned by his father, on the Grande Ronde Indian Reservation, a military post at that time. Here the precocious boy met and became the flattered protege of Grant, Sheridan, and others of that post. General Sheridan presented him a copyof Byron's poems, which he prized very highly and read with great interest. He entered, at sixteen, the Willamette University, at Salem, Oregon, from which he was graduated in the class of '65. He immediately took up the study of the law, and passed the required examination for admission to practice in 1866, but, not being of the required age, he was not admitted until 1867. 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.