Excerpt: "There are no corrals in a city, dear, she explained - and I cried the harder. I could conceive of no joy in a place where I could not go out to the corrals and have some brown - faced cowpuncher hoist me up on a gentle horse and let me hold the reins while the pony moved sedately about."
Bertrand William Sinclair (1881–1972) was a Canadian novelist known for a series of westerns set in the United States, and also for a series of novels set in his home province of British Columbia. In writing about the outdoors, Sinclair was influenced in his portrayals by Jack London. In his works treating social causes, he was influenced by Upton Sinclair, who may have been a cousin. Over the years 1905-40 Sinclair wrote over 60 stories and 11 "novelettes".