Me-Smith

"Me-Smith" is an unusually powerful and appealing character study that grips and holds the reader through all of the protagonist's deeds, whether good or bad. It is a story with red blood in it. There is the cry of the coyote, the deadly thirst for revenge as it exists in the wronged Indian toward the white man, the thrill of the gaming table, and the gentleness of pure, true love. To the very end the tense melodrama of the tale is maintained without relaxation."This story is so vivid an interpretation of Western life that it leaped into instant favor in the land where it was conceived, and for six months was the main topic of discussion in all the sheep-camps and cow-camps in the Big Horn Basin." -Book News"A strong, realistic novel dealing with that frontier life.... In it are some of the best and most vivid pictures of actual conditions as they have obtained in a passing phase of Western life, to be found in recent fiction. There is also some fine character drawing.... The splendid imaginative power of her graphic pictures of the country and the types of life with which she deals speak of literary ability of a high order." -The Twentieth Century Magazine"It is such a strong, virile story of Western life." -The Bookseller"The story is the best of its kind published for many a long day." -The Bellman"The author has humor and dramatic force, an infallible ear for local vernacular and a keen eye for types. As a delineation of western life at once realistic and picturesque, it compares favorably with Mr. Wister's 'The Virginian.'" -The New York Times"A dare-devil outlaw of the plains, murderer and cattle-rustler, is the central figure in this melodramatic tale." -Book Review Digest"Caroline Lockhart must be thanked for purveying a tale of the Wild West sufficiently plausible to deserve reading by grown-up persons.... Miss Lockhart, although employing bright humorous sidelights, conjures up no false sympathy on behalf of the monstrous cattle-thief, bandit, and murderer...being blest with an Olympic deification of his own code." -The American Review of Reviews"Gripping, vigorous story." -Chicago Record-Herald"This is a real novel, a big novel." -Indianapolis Newspaper"Not since the publication of 'The Virginian' has so powerful a cowboy story been told." -Philadelphia Public Ledger"A remarkable book in its strength of portrayal and its directness of development. It cannot be read without being remembered." -The World Today"Caroline Lockhart, of Cody, Wyoming, whose first novel, 'Me-Smith, ' achieved the distinction of a second edition before publication, recently wrote her publishers, J. B. Lippincott Company: 'I am Western and know thoroughly the types in 'Me-Smith.' I used to 'ride fence, ' a little 'scamper' of sixty miles, and chase jackrabbits with the cowpunchers on my father's ranch until they sent me East to boarding school to 'break my spirit' and make a 'perfect lady' of me - with indifferent results. I was always restless in the East and finally hiked back to the sagebrush.' 'Me-Smith' is said to reflect the spirit of the Far West to a remarkable degree."