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THE PREACHER OF CEDAR MOUNTAIN
A TALE OF THE OPEN COUNTRY
BY ERNEST THOMPSON SETON
FRONTISPIECE BY CLARENCE ROWE
Garden City New YorkDOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY1917
_Copyright, 1917, by_Ernest Thompson Seton
_All rights reserved, including that oftranslation into foreign languages,including the Scandinavian_
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PREFACE
Most of the characters in this tale are from life, and some of the mainevents are historical, although the actual scenes and names are notgiven. Many men now living will remember Fighting Bill Kenna and theHorse Preacher, as well as the Fort Ryan races. These horse races areespecially well known and have been described in print many times. I didnot witness any of them myself, but listened on numerous occasions whenthey were described to me by eye-witnesses. My first knowledge of thesecret try-out in Yellowbank Canyon was given to me years ago by HomerDavenport, the cartoonist, with permission to use the same.
But all of these more or less historic events are secondary to theintent of illustrating the growth of a character, whose many rare giftswere mere destructive force until curbed and harmonized into the big,strong machine that did such noble work in the West during my early dayson the Plains.