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We're going to have snow to-night! Ted Strong, leader of the broncho boys, was sitting on the back of Sultan, his noble little black stallion, on the ridge of a prairie swell, looking at a lowering sky. Out of the northwest a chilling wind, damp and raw, was sweeping dull-gray clouds before it. Ted had addressed his remark to Bud Morgan, his chum and able lieutenant, who threw a glance at the clouds and grunted.
About the author
Edward C. Taylor was an author best known for writing adventure novels set in the American West. His most notable work, Ted Strong in Montana: Or, With Lariat and Spur, exemplifies the action-packed, morally clear stories that defined the Western genre in the late 19th century. Taylor's stories often featured larger-than-life heroes who embodied the virtues of rugged individualism and self-reliance, both of which were central to the idealized image of the cowboy during this era.
Taylor played an important role in the development of Western fiction, crafting narratives filled with the genre's classic elements: heroic cowboys, skilled in riding, roping, and shooting, and set against the backdrop of the untamed frontier. His protagonists faced various challenges, including outlaws, settlers, and the dangers of the wilderness, in straightforward narratives that often drew clear distinctions between good and evil. These tales reflected the public's fascination with the American frontier and captured the mythic qualities of the cowboy, which would go on to shape the Western genre both in literature and film. Taylor's work is marked by moral clarity and dramatic confrontations that became staples of Western literature.
