This book is a collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, an American author and poet. Her works are often cited in the anthologies of poetry. She was also famous as the author of the proverbial expression: "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." This work by Charles Burdett, published in 1860, during the lifetime of Kit Carson, is an excellent example of popular literature about heroic frontiersmen of those times.