Pancho Villa by Tom Lea, from Southwest
Review, Winter, 1951
Frontispiece by Tom Lea, from Santa Rita by
Martin W. Schwettmann
Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from The
Blazed Trail by Agnes C. Laut
Buffaloes by Harold D. Bugbee
Illustration by Charles M. Russell, from Fifteen
Thousand Miles by Stage by Carrie
Adell Strahorn
Coyote Head by Olaus J. Murie, from The
Voice of the Coyote by J. Frank Dobie
Paisano



A Preface With Some Revised Ideas

IT HAS BEEN ten years since I wrote the prefatory "Declaration"
to this now enlarged and altered book. Not to my
generation alone have many things receded during that
decade. To the intelligent young as well as to the intelligent
elderly, efforts in the present atmosphere to opiate the public
with mere pictures of frontier enterprise have a ghastly
unreality. The Texas Rangers have come to seem as remote
as the Foreign Legion in France fighting against the Kaiser.
Yet this _Guide_, extensively added to and revised, is mainly
concerned, apart from the land and its native life, with