Presents a collection of stories that feature rustlers and hustlers, Mounties and tenderfeet, crows and blackfeet, mountain men, prospectors, bartenders, lawyers, townspeople, and assorted dogs, cats, and horses. "In the Name of Friendship" sets up a bluff with ironic results. "Was Chet Smalley Honest?" shows a good deed in danger of punishment.
A trapper in Montana during his youth, Frank B. Linderman stayed on as a publisher, politician, and businessman, beginning to write in middle age. Filled with rustlers and hustlers, mountain men, prospectors, and assorted other humans and animals, this collection of stories was originally published in 1920 and still crackles with the freshness of Arctic wind, the pungency of aged whiskey, the impact of a whip.
