Excerpt from The Young Ranchmen: Or Perils of Pioneering in the Wild West Ah, Robert, my good fellow, is that you? I was beginning to think you were lost in those interminable forests. We expected you home weeks ago, exclaimed Major Weston, turning from the. Pretty girl with whom he was conversing in the verandah of a low, snugly-built Canadian farm-house, to greet a stalwart man of forty years of age. 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.