Excerpt from Sport and Life on the Pacific Slope

My Dear Chief, -

I dedicate this book to you with profound pleasure, in acknowledgment of an affection and sympathy which have been sealed by a great sorrow. From your hands I received a loyal, loving wife, but the fact that she was born in California has not shackled my lips in speaking of the West. She, I know, would have entreated me to write with a free hand, and if at times I seem to criticise somewhat harshly certain women who, consciously or unconsciously, are widening the gulf between their husbands and themselves, let it be remembered by my friends that I have judged these women according to a standard set by a daughter of the West, a standard of tenderness, fidelity, unselfishness, and modesty to which few wives, be their country what it may, can attain.

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