“I’ve always disliked vendettas. In my opinion, this product of our country is overrated even more than grapefruit, cocktail and wedding travel. However, with your permission, I would like to tell you about one vendetta in Indian territory a vendetta in which I played the role of a reporter, an aide-de-camp and a non-contributor. I used to go to Sam Dorkey's ranch and have fun: I would fall off unmannered horses and threaten wolves with my fist when they were two miles away. Sam, a hardened subject in his twenties, enjoyed a reputation as a man who quietly returns home in the dark, though he often did so with great reluctance.