Our brothers who left home yesterday--our hearts cannot but follow them.

With these pages Ralph Conner enables our eyes and our minds to follow, too; nor do I think there is any one who shall read this book and not find also that his conscience is quickened.

There is a warfare appointed unto man upon earth, and its struggles are nowhere more intense, nor the victories of the strong, nor the succors brought to the fallen, more heroic, than on the fields described in this volume.
GEORGE ADAM SMITH.
BLACK ROCK The story of the book is true, and chief of the failures in the making of the book is this, that it is not all the truth.

The light is not bright enough, the shadow is not black enough to give a true picture of that bit of Western life of which the writer was some small part.

The men of the book are still there in the mines and lumber camps of the mountains, fighting out that eternal fight for manhood, strong, clean, God-conquered.