Books: Seeds in the Sagebrush

PRINT IN A WILD LAND by John Myers Myers. 274 pages. Doubleday. $5.95.

Ho, on the brink of hell, we've cooked for you

This pot of dope, this mass of desert stew,

This warm collation, hot with sulphurous fumes,

And if it suits not, you know what to do.

So the Greenwater (Calif.) Chuck-Walla warned readers, and the plucky little newspaper more than lived up to its lusty pledge—at least as long as it lived. The Chuck-Walla was one of in numerable fly-by-night newspapers that flourished on the Western frontier. Their exuberant, quarrelsome editors are now a...