ABSTRACT
In the larger frontier towns, particularly such as attracted men with money as miners or cowmen, prostitutes appeared naturally, and there was always a somewhat slack morality among the lower sort of frontier folk. The conditions of frontier life often compelled a man to be away from home and perhaps take refuge for the night in another house where the man was also absent. The end of the frontier was in sight, though the cowboy and the cattle king did not know it; and the cowboy was the last, as he was the most brilliant, flash of color in all our varied ways of making a living. The frontiersmen felt that the mere fact of being Americans gave them superiority, and that knowledge of how to meet “well enough” the problems of their daily round made education superfluous if not harmful.
