In this bracing mile-high atmosphere he soon grew well and strong, almost to ruggedness, and on the day his book was published he was riding in a wild-horse chase over a country wild and rough where the writer of this sketch would only care to go, carefully picking his way, on foot.

So it was weeks after publication before the author saw the first bound copy of his book.

During these summer and fall months, while regaining his strength, he was busy with sketch and note book collecting material, for this part of Arizona is the scene of his novel "When a Man's a Man." "Their Yesterdays" was written in Tucson, Arizona, and was published in the fall of 1912, just one year after the publication of "The Winning of Barbara Worth." In order to write this story, with the least possible strain on his nerves and vitality, Mr.Wright secluded himself in a little cottage purchased especially for this work.

His material was collected from the observations of his thoughtful years and his intimate knowledge of human hearts.

This book is, perhaps, more representative of the real Harold Bell Wright than anything he has done.