The ne'er-do-well of a family who in one place has his debts paid a couple of times and is then forced to resign from his clubs and lead a cloudy but innocuous existence on a small pension, in the other abruptly finishes his career by being hung for horse-stealing.
Roosevelt illustrates the drastic changes in fate for individuals with poor character when faced with the lawlessness of the frontier.
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