The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories

The Jimmyjohn Boss, and Other Stories by Owen Wister is a collection of stories about life in the wild west. Wister writes passionately about the open lands fought over by cowboys and Native Americans alike. Excerpt: "It's very plain that if a thing's the fashion— Too much the fashion—if the people leap To do it, or to be it, in a passion Of haste and crowding, like a herd of sheep, Why then that thing becomes through imitation Vulgar, excessive, obvious, and cheap."