Injun and Whitey to the Rescue
William S. Hart
- Frontier
- days
- were
- made
- up
- of
- many
- different
- kinds
- of
- humans.
- There
- were
- men
- who
- were
- muddy-bellied
- coyotes,
- so
- low
- that
- they
- hugged
- the
- ground
- like
- a
- snake.
- There
- were
- girls
- whose
- cheeks
- were
- so
- toughened
- by
- shame
- as
- to
- be
- hardly
- knowable
- from
- squaws.
- There
- were
- stoic
- Indians
- with
- red-raw,
- liquor-dilated
- eyes,
- peaceable
- and
- just
- when
- sober,
- boastful
- and
- intolerant
- when
- drunk.
- And
- then
- there
- were
- those
- White
- Men,
- those
- moulders,
- those
- makers
- of
- the
- great,
- big
- open-hearted
- West,
- that
- had
- not
- yet
- been
- denatured
- by
- nesters
- and
- wire
- fences,
- men
- to
- whom
- a
- Colt
- gun
- was
- the
- court
- of
- last
- appeal
- and
- who
- did
- not
- carry
- a
- warrant
- in
- their
- pockets
- until
- it
- was
- worn
- out,
- men
- who
- faced
- staggering
- odds
- and
- danger
- single-handed
- and
- alone,
- men
- who
- created
- and
- worked
- out
- and
- made
- an
- Ideal
- Civilization,--a
- country
- where
- doors
- were
- left
- unlocked
- at
- night
- and
- the
- windows
- of
- the
- mind
- were
- always
- open,--men
- who
- were
- always
- kind
- to
- the
- weak
- and
- unprotected,
- even
- if
- they
- did
- have
- hoofs
- and
- horns,
- men
- like
- William
- B.
- (Bat)
- Masterson
- and
- Wyatt
- Earp.
- They
- and
- their
- kind
- made
- the
- frontier,
- that
- Great
- West
- which
- we
- can
- now
- look
- back
- upon
- as
- the
- most
- romantic
- era
- of
- our
- American History.
