LIN McLEAN

By

OWEN WISTER




DEDICATION

MY DEAR HARRY MERCER: When Lin McLean was only a hero in manuscript, he
received his first welcome and chastening beneath your patient roof. By
none so much as by you has he in private been helped and affectionately
disciplined, an now you must stand godfather to him upon this public
page.

Always yours,

OWEN WISTER

Philadelphia, 1897




HOW LIN McLEAN WENT EAST

In the old days, the happy days, when Wyoming was a Territory with a
future instead of a State with a past, and the unfenced cattle grazed