Excerpt from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges in 1892 There was the quite thoughtful mother, now past her prime, but with many traces of the beauty and refinement that made her the belle of the little country town until Hugh Whitney, the strong-bearded soldier, who had entered the war as private and emerged there from with several wounds and with the eagles of a colonel on his shoulder, carried her away from all admirers and made her his bride.

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