{"product_id":"2940016238951","title":"A Texas Ranger by William MacLeod Raine","description":"Within the memory of those of us still on the sunny side of forty the more remote West has passed from rollicking boyhood to its responsible majority. The frontier has gone to join the good Indian. In place of the ranger who patrolled the border for \"bad men\" has come the forest ranger, type of the forward lapping tide of civilization. The place where I write this--Tucson, Arizona--is now essentially more civilized than New York. Only at the moving picture shows can the old West, melodramatically overpainted, be shown to the manicured sons and daughters of those, still living, who brought law and order to the mesquite.\u003cbr\u003eAs Arthur Chapman, the Western poet, has written:\u003cbr\u003e  No loopholes now are framing\u003cbr\u003e  Lean faces, grim and brown;\u003cbr\u003e  No more keen eyes are aiming\u003cbr\u003e  To bring the redskin down.\u003cbr\u003e  The plough team's trappings jingle\u003cbr\u003e  Across the furrowed field,\u003cbr\u003e  And sounds domestic mingle\u003cbr\u003e  Where valor hung its shield.\u003cbr\u003e  But every wind careering\u003cbr\u003e  Seems here to breathe a song--\u003cbr\u003e  A song of brave frontiering--\u003cbr\u003e  A saga of the strong.","brand":"Unforgotten Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069862658288,"sku":"2940016238951","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016238951_p0.jpg?v=1763639131","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016238951","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}