This edition contains five color illustrations. Clarence E Mulford takes you back to the beginning by relating the stories (as told to him by Red and the boys of the BAR-20) of how Buck Peters started the BAR-20 ranch. It tells of how he picked up Hopalong Cassidy, Red Connors, Skinny Thompson, and many of the other colorful characters in this famous series. Although it’s a prequel, it is better to read this as the fourth book in the series, because it mentions events that won’t mean anything if you haven’t read the first three books.
This book has been carefully edited “line-by-line†to eliminate transcription errors and to match the original edition. It has not been “edited for content†and includes all original racial slurs, odd spellings, cussing, drinking and the like.