It is the passing glory of the great west -- the west of the wide range and the long trail -- that the author celebrates in these poems. Using freely the dialect of the cowboy he writes of Sunset on the desert; The mirage; The last drive; A cattle range at night; The short grass country; The homesteader; The prospector; The new west, etc. This book contains 100 poems of the west by E. A. Brininstool. "Here is the man who can do for the cattle country and its inhabitants what has been done for the Hoosier regions by James Whitcomb Riley and for the vast solitudes of the Yukon by Robert W Service," Boston Transcript p22 11 1 14 200w. This is the second edition of Trail Dust of a Maverick. Brininstool added a number of poems to it. He writes about cowboy life, the cattle range, and the desert. Included in this Illustrated Edition of the 1921 version of "Trail Dust of a Maverick" are 10 Western cowboy illustrations that are unique to this edition of the book. An Index of verses has been added to the end of the book.