Complete and unabridged, with 51 full-page plates by Winslow Homer, Thomas Moran and John Frederick Kensett. A rich man's son is turned out with nothing and told to make himself, and does it in a Colorado boom town. Lynde wrote railway and mining novels for the American magazines and knew the engineering. This edition is bound with 51 plates of Western painting by Frederic Remington, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt and Thomas Cole, dating from 1832 to 1910.