When A Mans A Man By Harold Bell Wright (1St Edition Hardcover, 1916 Book

This book is a classic western from the early parts of the 20th Century. Although I usually leave it to the reader to discover awesome prose I really want to share just the first page.
There is a land where a man, to live, must be a man. It is a land of granite and marble and porphyry and gold -- and a mans strength must be as the strength of the primeval hills. It is a land of oaks and cedars and pines -- and a mans mental grace must be as the grace of the untamed trees. It is a land of far-arched and unstained skies, where the wind sweeps free and untainted, and the atmosphere is the atmosphere of those places that remain as God made them -- and a mans soul must be as the unstained skies, the unburdened wind, and the untainted atmosphere. It is a land of wide mesas, of wild, rolling pastures and broad, untilled, valley meadows -- and a mans freedom must be that freedom which is not bounded by the fences of a too weak and times conventionalism.