Faithfulness and manliness were his chief traits; his standard--to be a "square man." Not all the open range will ever be farmed, but very much that was long thought to be irreclaimable has gone under irrigation or is being more or less successfully "dryfarmed." The man who brought water upon the arid lands of the West changed the entire complexion of a vast country and with it the industries of that country.

Acres redeemed from the desert and added to the realm of the American farmer were taken from the realm of the American cowboy.
The West has changed.

The curtain has dropped between us and its wild and stirring scenes.

The old days are gone.

The house dog sits on the hill where yesterday the coyote sang.