US "short-story writer, verse writer".
"He was the most influential writer of his time about the American West; wrote "The Outcasts of Poker Flat," and "Miggles.""
And he smiled a kind of sickly smile, and curled up on the floor, And the subsequent proceedings interested him no more."
Never a tear bedims the eye That time and patience will not dry.
A bird in hand is a certainty. But a bird in the bush may sing.
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.
"Drop down, O fleecy Fog and hide Her skeptic sneer, and all her pride!"
