Dedication: To Wallie Pritchard Hales this book is dedicated, partly in memory of the long rides we have had together in the saddle on horse and camel back, and the jolly hours spent together around many camp fires, but chiefly to show my appreciation of the loving helpfulness in time of storm and stress of a brave comrade and good son. May you find through life one friend as faithful to you as the man around whom this book is built; for as you know, McTavish is no mere fancy sketch - he was a real man. The Author.
