His best-known story was "The Little
Eohippus" (Saturday Evening Post, November-December, 1912), which later was expanded into a novel and published as Bransford in Arcadia (1914); in 1917 it was reprinted as Bransford of Rainbow Range.
In their traditional Mongol hats and cloaks, called deek, the horsemen appear mythic, and the horses seem more ancient still, with their chunky bodies and thin legs and the crude lumpy heads of
Eohippus. Some of their goats, too, look archaic, with crazy yellow eyes and outsize horns, whereas the sheep and cattle they herd appear modern - that is to say, dulled and stupid in appearance and comportment, befitting animals that have given up all sense of anything but satiation, content to be shunted about in bawling herds.