Color illustration on front cover of a man from the chest down wearing a dark shirt, dark pants, suspenders and a gunbelt and holding a pistol in his proper right hand. In the foreground are the boots and spurs of another man sprawled on the ground.

By tradition all Texans are giants among men. At seventeen Dusty Fog commanded a company of Texas Light Cavalry. When the Civil War ended he became segundo of the biggest ranch except Dusty stood a mere five feet six inches, but when the chips were down the samll Texan stood the tallest of them all.