"A descriptive writer, Robert M. McReynolds...is excelled by few authors of the West." -Oklahoma Weekly Leader, June 27, 1907
"Robert McReynolds...a well known western character...is the author of...'Thirty Years on the Frontier'...was a...marshal in Oklahoma...amply able to defend himself with a gun." -Beatrice (Nebraska) Daily Sun, April 26, 1907
"Robert McReynolds...one of the most colorful men...is dead...hunted outlaws in Oklahoma...received an award...for valor exhibited in the Sioux Indian uprising." -Evansville Press, Dec. 31, 1928
"Robert McReynolds...who led a life as adventuresome and exciting as any picture in the yellow-back novels...died here yesterday." -Times Dispatch (Richmond), December 31, 1928
Robert McReynolds (1854-1928) was a U.S. marshal, veteran of the Indian Wars, cowboy, miner, pioneer, and wild horse roper who left his home in Kentucky for the Western frontier country of what is now Montana, Colorado, Arizona, California, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and the Dakotas.
His 1906 book "Thirty Years on The Frontier," contains many wild adventures including close calls in battles with Sioux warriors and Oklahoma outlaw bands.
In introducing his book, McReynolds writes:
"In the following pages I shall tell of much personal experience as well as important incidents which have come under my observation during thirty years on the frontier. As a cowboy, miner and pioneer, I have participated in many exciting events, none of which, however, caused me the prolonged grief that a certain bombshell affair did when I was a boy, resulting in a newspaper experience and habit of telling things, and eventually led to my coming West."
