"[The book] is a scholarly and artistic production in which any westerner at all concerned in the recording of western culture may well take a peculiar and commendable local pride. Not because the book is the work of a western woman, or a study of a western folk-hero, or a by-product of a course of training in a western university, or the offering of a western publishing firm, though it is all of these things, but because it is a piece of decidedly excellent craftsmanship."
