34546,Horses,Horses,Horses,Horses,Horses,Horses,,Suzanne Wilding,57.00,19.00,VAN HOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY,1970,精裝,184,,,Horses,Horses,Horses,The Seeing Eye<br >by Will James<br >Will James， one ol our best loved writers ol cowboy stories， had<br >no lormal schooling. He was born in a covered wagon in Mon-<br >tana in 1892 and spent most ol his file on the open range.<br > As a small boy， he began to draw on a writing tablet il .he had<br >one， and with a stick in the dirt il no paper was available. James<br >drew long belore he could read and write， but alter he had<br >mastered the ABCs， he tried setting pictures down in words; not<br >because he ~hought he had any great writing talent， but because<br >he hoped they would help sell his drawings ol the West.<br > His career was varied. He never liked staying in one place for<br >long and earned his living rough riding， being a cowhand， a<br >trapper， and a sometime cattle rustler. On two occasions he<br >tangled wi~h the mounties and spent several miserable months<br >in a Canadian jail. Alter he was cleared ol guilt in a barroom<br >brawl， he never tampered with the law again.<br > By the time he was thirty， broncbusting had all but crippled<br >]ames. He married the sister ol one of his cowboy buddies and<br >longed to settle down and earn his living as an aritst.<br > He sold a few pictures， but his real success came when .he wrote<br >stories of the West and illustrated them. He wrote the way a cow-<br ><br >