Excerpt from Jack, the Young Ranchman: Or a Boy's Adventures in the Rockies Far away in the west, close to the backbone of the continent, lies the sagebrush country where the happenings described in the following pages took place. The story is about real things and about real people, many of whom are alive to-day. The ranch lies in the Rocky Mountains, in a great basin, walled in by mountains on every hand, and 7,500 feet above the level of the sea. The life there was exciting. There was good hunting - antelope and elk and bears and buffalo; and, far away - yet near enough to he very real - there were wild Indians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.