Autobiography of the American newspaperman and novelist.

A hundred-odd men, women, and children gathered at the rendezvous a few miles outside of Independence. They were solid, established folk, most of them, and they were leaving behind prosperous farms and businesses because they shared a dream about the rich lands in the West, where a man, his wife, and their young ones might make a better life and a new world more desirable than any Americans before them had ever known.

13 stories of the western frontier, several of which are set in Montana.

A drifter and retired gunfighter assists a homestead family terrorized by an aging cattleman and his hired gun.