tell what they did.  Go on and tell of development of the settlements and the surrounding country.  Were there any strikingly good methods of making money?  Was there any excitement over land, or gold, or high prices of products?  Were there any misfortunes, such as floods, or droughts, or fires, or cyclones?  When did the railroad reach the region?  What differences did it make?  What particular influences have brought about recent conditions?

=The Sheriff=:—­Describe the sheriff—­his physique, his features, his clothes, his manner.  Does he look the part?  Do you know, or can you imagine, one of his adventures?  Perhaps you will wish to tell his story in his own words.  Think carefully whether it would be better to do this, or to tell the story in the third person.  Make the tale as lively and stirring as possible.  Remember that when you are reporting the talk of the persons involved, it is better to quote their words directly.  See that everything you say helps in making the situation clear or in actually telling the story.  Close the story rather quickly after its outcome has been made quite clear.

COLLATERAL READINGS

How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar Bret Harte
The Outcasts of Poker Flat " "
The Luck of Roaring Camp " "
Baby Sylvester " "
A Waif of the Plains " "
How I Went to the Mines " "
M’liss " "
Frontier Stories " "
Tales of the Argonauts " "
A Sappho of Green Springs and Other Stories " "
Pony Tracks Frederic Remington
Crooked Trails " "
Coeur d’Alene Mary Hallock Foote
The Led-Horse Claim " " "
Wolfville Days Alfred Henry Lewis
Wolfville Nights " " "
The Sunset Trail " " "
Pathfinders of the West Agnes C. Laut
The Old Santa Fe Trail H. Inman
Stories of the Great West Theodore Roosevelt
California and the Californians D.S.  Jordan
Our Italy C.D.  Warner
California Josiah Royce
The West from a Car Window R.H.  Davis
The Story of the Railroad Cy Warman
Roughing It S.L.  Clemens
Poems Joaquin Miller