sentences:  The following spring he published his first work of fiction, "When Wilderness Was King", through A. C. McClurg & Company, Chicago, also publishers of his subsequent books.This manuscript was submitted and accepted when but half completed and for a first book met with remarkable sale.All of his previous experience, the atmosphere of culture and refinement of his boyhood home, his literary and legal education, the hardships and privations which he endured upon the plains of the west, his campaign experiences and his labors in the ministry, all constituted a preparation and equipment for the work which he is now doing in the literary world, and which has made him one of the most successful of the modern writers.