There are valleys so wide that the farther side melts into the horizon, and uplands so vast as to suggest the unbroken prairie.

Nearer the mountains the valleys dip deep and ever deeper till they narrow into canyons through which mountain torrents pour their blue-gray waters from glaciers that lie glistening between the white peaks far away.

Here are the great ranges on which feed herds of cattle and horses.

Here are the homes of the ranchmen, in whose wild, free, lonely existence there mingles much of the tragedy and comedy, the humor and pathos, that go to make up the romance of life.

Among them are to be found the most enterprising, the most daring, of the peoples of the old lands.